These entries, you can imagine, are easy when I feel justifiable disgust at a wrestling segment. However, there is something truly vexing about seeing a great match, and simply not caring. That apathy makes me feel a stronger hatred than any horrible, flat, or otherwise cringe segment wrestling can put out.

Friday’s episode of “WWE SmackDown” put four of their finest tag teams in competition to figure out the new contenders for the Wyatt Sicks’ WWE Tag Team Championships. Let’s be clear: #DIY, Fraxiom, Rey Fenix and Andrade, and Motor City Machine Guns put on a fine match — great, even. #DIY was as crafty as ever (I personally love heel Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Ciampa is as intense as ever, and welcome back to TV, Candice LeRae), Fenix and Andrade were on point with their luchador work, Fraxiom met them in the impressive agility department, and Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley worked well with all the styles in the ring. Sure, there might have been some slow moments in the match, but I can acknowledge how difficult it is to coordinate a match with eight people (and it’s not like this episode of “WWE SmackDown” had a high bar to clear, anyway). For all intents and purposes, this match was good — quite possibly the best of the night.

If this match was that good, why can’t I find myself caring?

This is frustrating, because I genuinely want WWE’s tag division to be good. There are so many talented performers in WWE’s tag team division: Street Profits, Wyatt Sicks, everyone in Friday’s match. This tag team division, with all of the talent that is within, should be one of WWE’s prime selling points. How come it simply isn’t? Why can’t I find myself caring about the tag team division I desperately want to vouch for and support?

WWE is just so flimsy with the booking of their tag team division. WWE treats their tag team division like an afterthought, where even the top dog of the tag team division is just a midcarder with a title accessory on them at best. There’s just a lack of care put into all of these tag teams: like, how do you expect me to believe that Fenix and Andrade have the tag team synergy to take down the Wyatt Sicks? Why aren’t teams like Fraxiom and #DIY involved in anything else but the title picture? What do Motor City Machine Guns do when they’re not in these weekly contendership matches (because WWE cannot consistently book a tag team storyline)? WWE’s tag team is full of exhibition matches that are cool, but is severely lacking in stories that can grip us to actually care about the tag team division. They don’t even have to be super deep stories; I just need something that I can follow for more than two weeks in order to actually remember the tag division exists, much less care for it.

I want to care. WWE, give me something to care for!

Written by Angeline Phu