10 AEW Tag Teams Who Overstayed Their Welcome

When AEW began, it boasted one of, if not the best tag team division on the planet, with the matches in the division being a lot of fun, stealing the show every week. Top teams like The Young Bucks and The Lucha Brothers led the division, and they have been mainstays ever since.

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However, there are certain teams in AEW who have, by this point, very much outstayed their welcome with the promotion. Whether that be due to them being booked so poorly to the point where no one can take them seriously, or simply due to them being a bad part of the division in general.

10 QTV

QT Marshall and Aaron Solo have been aligned for a while in AEW, but their position on the card has hardly changed since day one. Marshall is an undercard heel and Solo is somehow even lower than that.

The pair haven’t done anything to help one another really, and at this point they would just be better going their separate ways. Neither man has had a memorable match in singles competition or as a tag team in AEW.

9 Dark Order

The Dark Order were both once the most hated and most beloved team in AEW. Today though, they are arguably at their worst point yet with fans, with everyone seemingly just indifferent to them now.

The Dark Order should be a vital part of AEW, but in truth, everyone in the faction is being so misused that they would be better off either going their separate ways or even leaving AEW at this point, as they are all far better than what their current position suggests.

8 The Outcasts

The Outcasts haven’t even been together for too long, but it is safe to say that the trio of Saraya, Ruby Soho, and Toni Storm have not been good to watch in AEW. Their gimmick is tiring, their feuds are repetitive, and their promos are average.

All three women are talented in their own right, but as a faction they have already overstayed their welcome. A break-up and a complete refresh is what these women need at this point.

7 La Faccion Ingobernables

RUSH, Dralistico, and Preston Vance are all individually strong performers. However, with Dralistico’s lack of presentation due to him not being an official part of AEW, and with RUSH and Vance’s relatively low chemistry, the act just isn’t going anywhere.

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RUSH should be a dominant singles competitor, with one of AEW’s midcard titles having his name written all over it, and Vance needs something new to ensure he doesn’t become just a characterless heel on the roster - which is certainly where he is headed within this tag team.

6 The Butcher & The Blade

The Butcher and The Blade signed with AEW fairly early into Dynamite’s history, but a poorly received debut has pretty much set the precedent for the rest of their time in the company - unimpressive and underwhelming.

Sure, their role as a team to put others over is fine, but the more they’ve done that the less beating them even means at this point. Fans know they have no chance of success together in AEW. Perhaps with the right booking The Butcher could be a strong singles competitor, but even that feels unlikely at this point.

5 The Firm

The Firm as a faction failed very early on, but Big Bill and Lee Moriarty have carried forth the group’s name as a tag team in recent months. They have developed some manner of chemistry, but in truth their alliance still feels very thrown together and they’re doing nothing to add to the tag team division.

They have overstayed their welcome as a team for sure, although it must be said that it isn’t clear if they have a spot or role as singles competitors in AEW at this point either.

4 Santana & Ortiz

Whilst Santana & Ortiz haven’t been seen together in some time due to Santana’s injury, it is safe to say that the pair had already overstayed their welcome back then.

AEW grossly misused this duo when they should have been leading the division, and instead fell into the role of being Chris Jericho’s sidekicks.

3 Nyla Rose & Marina Shafir

Neither Nyla Rose nor Marina Shafir have had a good couple of years in AEW, and their alliance still feels random and thrown together. The height of their success has been squashing jobbers as a duo on Dark, but apart from that they’ve done very little to impact the women’s division.

They would both be better with a complete repackaging in AEW to reinvent them to try and figure out a way to get them some real momentum.

2 Chaos Project

The team of Luther and Serpentico is the definition of a jobber tag team. They haven’t won a two-on-two tag team match since back in 2021 when they were first introduced as a partnership following the end of Luther being in the awful Nightmare Collective, and that is due to them being terrible.

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Sure, they play their role as jobbers well, but at this point it feels pointless for them to be a part of the company, especially since Luther is such a below average performer at this point. They are still together, now aligned with Angelico as part of the Spanish Announce Project in yet another jobber act.

1 Private Party

When AEW first began, Private Party looked like future stars. An early upset win over the Young Bucks looked to turn them into the next big thing, but since that moment things have been on a constant downward spiral for the pairing.

Despite having talent, the pair have been low down the priority list for AEW. It is unlikely that when Marq Quen returns from injury that anything will change for the duo. At this point, it would be best to shut up shop and try their luck elsewhere.