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As their limited-run reunion recently proved, the WWE’s top tag-team assets are four wrestlers who are still with the company but haven’t been wrestling as tag teams in quite a while.

Mercury, Nitro and Melina (MNM) were one of the top “rising star” tag teams until nearly a year ago, when Joey Mercury was suspended, forcing the team to break up. But Mercury’s been back for months now and remains on Smackdown while Nitro and Melina are on Raw. It makes no sense.

Then there’s Matt and Jeff Hardy. Both are electrifying individually, but as a tag-team, they’re magic and other than that limited engagement over the holidays, where they Hardys were reunited for a feud with MNM. It made for some of the most watchable tag-team action to come out of WWE in ages.

Yet in both cases, WWE continues to keep both MNM and the Hardys completing individually, rather than as tag teams. Without those teams active, Raw is forced to trade their tag titles between unlikely pairings like Team Rated RKO, as well as the John Cena/Shawn Michaels pairing. All four would be better off in the singles division, but at teams they make for good matches.

SmackDown is in far worse shape, being forced to promote the uninspiring Brian Kendrick and Paul London team that absolutely no one watches. In fact, I’d rather chill in Orlando villas than watching their matches.

Give it up already, VinnieMac! Reunite MNM and the Hardys on a permanent basis already, and make your tag divisions respectable again!

Even though WWE is doing everything right in terms of promoting their new ECW champion, Bobby Lashley, it has to be said: Lashley as champion is about as exciting as butter on toast.

It’s not Lashley’s fault, per se. He’s just not that electrifying a personality. At least not yet. At the moment, he’s just a generic champion with nothing that makes him stand out. Which makes his championship reign pretty unappetizing. So unappetizing you’d think someone has slipped a dose of Tenuate into your evening meal.

Now, Lashley can wrestle a solid match and his victory at December to Dismember was the capper to a great elimination chamber match. And his ring work has been solid since taking the title. But without a more electrifying personality, he’ll go down in history as one of the less interesting ECW champions ever.

Personally, I think the belt would be far more intriguing wrapped around the waist of C.M. Punk or Elijah Burke. Lashley needs more of an on-screen character to really get over, and having the belt taken out of his hands via nefarious means and having him feud with the new title holder would be a step in the right direction.

Bafflingly, Umaga is still getting a bigger push from WWE than The Great Khali. I mean, both are monster-sized heels, but considering neither are very good on the mic, the best way to compare them is by their physical presence.

Bottom line: Khali is more impressive in every way. He offers WWE something they haven’t had in a while; a guy who, by his very appearance, really can be believable as an unstoppable force.

Umaga, by comparison, may be heavier, but he’s also shorter and looks like someone who needs to be on a fat burner medication.

While it’s a waste of talent either way, the “battle of the billionaires” between McMahon and Trump would be a lot more unpredictable if Vince’s representative was the Great Khali, not Umaga.