Ok, this is something I was just thinking about, when Tag Teams split up, specially in the past, usually you get one talent being pushed as a star with the other left behind to just be there basically, however you often notice that the one's who are left behind and not so much invested in are the one's that tend to just continue with the gimmick they had in the tag team, where as the others are repackaged completely and pushed to the moon, of course there is a few exceptions, which I'll explain.
However, in The Rockers thread I was talking about how the WWE did clearly try with Marty I think, I think they did invest in him more than they should have done really, from what I heard in regards to his unreliability issues, the WWE put the IC title on him and even the Tag Team belts too alongside the 1-2-3 Kid, however it still felt as though Marty wasn't really getting the push like Shawn was at the time, as he was still stuck in the same old Rockers attire and gimmick, I get how when teams split, one goes heel and the other stays face, however it's not always the case, as The Hart Foundation showcased also, but often you do notice that the one who is left with the done and dusted gimmick of the tag team, which is also done, is pretty much left behind really, give and take the odd occasion.
As I say, Marty was just running around doing the same old Rockers thing on his own where as Shawn had evolved and was working with Sherri getting this huge push, Tito Santana was another one who after Strike Force, was still running around in the same trunks where as Rick Martel was getting the huge push as The Model, you can tell which talents are being left behind and which one's are getting the push as often those talents have NO creative effort from the WWE, it's like, right, you continue doing that while we work on this guy and then you can fade off kinda thing.
There are of course some exceptions, the most obvious one being Bret Hart, after The Hart Foundation both Bret and Jim were still pretty much in the Hart Foundation attire, until of course Jim went into the New Foundation and High Energy, but even then, you felt like Bret was completely on his own now where you still felt Jim was stuck back in the Hart Foundation, even with the change of attire he was still clinging on to that, hence the New Foundation where Bret just seemed like he was completely his own person, even though he pretty much continued the Hart Foundation gimmick, maybe Bret just suited that so well it was silly to change that and I'm glad they didn't, but in general, it's usually as mentioned above, one talent is given no effort by the WWE and pretty much jobbing really while the other is pushed and often repackaged.
The other exception that comes to mind is Roman Reigns, however I feel that the whole Shield thing they continued with him and his whole push in general was very force fed, that it kinda didn't work, it did, of course, cause Reigns is doing his thing now, but even though he was getting the push out of the three, the other two still were getting decent enough pushes, specially Rollins, but it felt like those two guys had evolved and become their own, where as Reigns felt stale and held back in The Shield that he hadn't evolved, I think this was maybe to do with his progress as a talent that they wanted to nurture this, but in general, this comes to mind also for me, in the same way that Bret does and getting the push, yet staying with the attire of the tag team.
So what are your thoughts to this, do you feel that when talents split and teams are broken that both the talents should be repackaged, or do you feel that it's just laziness with the WWE which is pretty much showing, look, they're not putting any effort into you, but they are this guy, do you feel they could have at least put some effort in with the remaining tag team member, even if they weren't getting the huge push as the other that was pushed to the front, I guess what I'm asking is ....
Should more effort be put in to the remaining tag team member basically, in your opinion?
What are your thoughts, I thought this could be an interesting discussion and would love to hear some thoughts and vibes from you guys.