In the three-and-a-half years since the debut of The Wyatt Family in WWE, all three members -- and especially Bray Wyatt -- have been involved with one high-profile rivalry after another, but until Sunday night, none of them had ever held a title at this level.
That changed in a hurry at TLC, as Wyatt and Orton predictably decimated Slater and Rhyno to become the second team to hold the SmackDown tag team championships.
Slater and Rhyno received some great reactions from fans in the lead-up to their tag-title win but Sunday's match provided them a quick dose of reality about where they stand in the pecking order during their entrance. Despite being the "bad guys" in this rivalry, Orton and Wyatt got a hero's welcome, while Slater and Rhyno came in to relative silence.
As WWE announcer Mauro Ranallo pointed out, Rhyno began the match for the tag team champions for the first time since they began tagging with each other, and once Slater was tagged in ring it was clear why that was --- he appeared overmatched in almost every way against Wyatt and Orton. Slater took a beating for a good chunk of the match, but Rhyno seemed to do what he had done best for their entire reign as he cleaned house upon re-entering.
The most interesting wrinkle of all happened in the closing moments of the match, when Luke Harper emulated Orton's sacrifice from Survivor Series and ate a gore from Rhyno to save Orton outside of the ring. Orton then grabbed the blind tag, hit an RKO on Rhyno and sealed the victory to tremendous applause.
There might be dissension among the ranks of The Wyatts down the line, but for now -- as was clear as both Wyatt and Orton draped their new titles over Harper's shoulders -- it appears they are as well-aligned as they've been since Orton joined.
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