Bray Wyatt and Samoa Joe Joining Forces Would Electrify WWE Raw Tag Division

In the tradition of The Brothers of Destruction, The Masters of the Powerbomb and The Powers of Pain, a Bray Wyatt-Samoa Joe tag team would be a compelling alliance of behemoths.

Should the two predators decide to start chasing the same prey, WWE Raw's tag team division would instantly be an even bigger strength for the red brand. Monday nights would be a weekly celebration of these monsters, a stage on which Wyatt could revive his career and The Destroyer could make an indelible impact.

For now, though, Wyatt and Joe are enemies.

They are two of the five men set to battle at Sunday's Extreme Rules pay-per-view for the right to be named No. 1 contender for the Universal Championship. Wyatt and Joe may align for a moment or two, but they will be just as focused on tearing each other apart.

If WWE doesn't have plans for either of them to move on to collide with champion Brock Lesnar, it would be better off melding them into a tag team.

For one, Raw is short a squad. The Golden Truth imploded when Goldust turned on R-Truth recently. Having Wyatt and Joe step in for them would deepen the division in a major way.

Talk about a replacement that's better than what it's replacing.

And Wyatt needs a change of some sort. Even though he was WWE champion heading into WrestleMania 33, he doesn't feel like a legitimate threat to the men on Raw's top tier.

His actions have failed to match his apocalyptic rhetoric. He promises to scorch the earth, only to get burned himself. He's lost nearly every major feud he's been a part of.

So when he proclaims some new act of calamity is on its way, the audience struggles to buy it.

That's surely a big part of the reason fans are beginning to tune out of his speeches. The folks at the Over the Ropes podcast have already lost interest:

Wyatt is locked in a cycle that isn't working. As A.V. Club columnist Kyle Fowle wrote: "He's been defanged too many times, and yet the character remains the same."

Battling alongside Joe would help reinvigorate The Eater of Worlds. It would give him a new direction to stomp toward, a new realm to conquer and an ally who elevates him.

Joe has scored a number of wins of late, but he too would benefit from sliding away from the crowded Universal Championship picture to dominating the tag team division.

And the one time Joe and Wyatt were on the same side—during a tag match on May 22—they looked excellent together. They fit together opposite Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, two beasts bowling over lesser men.

There's an inherent appeal to two hosses clobbering foes in unison becoming two heavyweights who form an imposing partnership.

Wyatt and Joe devouring The Hardy Boyz would be a joy to watch. The tag team division offers a number of other appetizing opponents as well, such as The Revival, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson and Sheamus and Cesaro. Sure, those matchups would have heel-against-heel dynamics, but those are slugfests WWE needs to make happen.

Perhaps Wyatt and Joe can become antiheroes of a sort or tweeners who make enemies of the entire division. 

With that many quality matchups to play with, the tag team division would become a highlight for Raw. It would be even more heavy with talent.

And with Reigns, Finn Balor and Braun Strowman all vying for Lesnar's title, Wyatt and Joe would be better off hunting down tag team gold. They could go from the periphery of one title scene to the center of another.

Wyatt and Joe need to go from trying to choke the life from each other to becoming a dominant force.

Sometimes, titans are best off fighting side by side. As Sarah J. Maas wrote in Queen of Shadows, "Perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then."