Alex Shelley Believes Tag Team Wrestling Is At a Downward Point

Alex Shelley says that he thinks tag team wrestling has hit a “bit of a downward point” as of now. Shelley is a multi-time TNA World Tag Team Champion and a former World Champion, and he spoke with Busted Open Radio during which he was asked if he would rather spend the rest of his career as a singles wrestler or tag team wrestler.

“I think we’re kind of hitting a bit of a downward point in tag team wrestling right now,” Shelley said (per Fightful). “You’re seeing a lot of the guys my age, we’re 40 — but they’re aren’t any true tag teams coming up to really take our place. You look at it ten years ago, FTR, Young Bucks, Briscoes, MCMG, Time Splitters, you had so many and now it’s kind of starting to dip a little bit.”

He continued, “While it’s our responsibility to carry on that lineage, as you taught me, we taught them, and we’re still around so we have to keep teaching it and I think that’s a really, really important part of pro wrestling that has to stay alive.”

Shelley is set to battle Moose for the TNA World Championship at No Surrender on Friday.