WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No vs. The Shield's Reigns and Rollins (Tag Team Tornado Match)

WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No will face the biggest challenge of their eight-month title reign when they defend against The Shield’s Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins in a Tag Team Tornado Match at Extreme Rules. Unlike traditional tag team contests, the stipulation for this Sunday’s championship duel does away with the formality of tagging; instead, all four Superstars will fight concurrently until a pinfall or submission decision is rendered.

A holdover from the nascent years of tag team competition, the Tornado Match seemingly plays to the strengths of Reigns and Rollins who, alongside Dean Ambrose, have excelled in matches in which their frenetic ring style isn’t stymied by tags. That’s to say nothing of the inherent danger of Tag Team Tornado Matches. The risk of being blindsided is grave, and double-team attacks are inevitable. When all four Superstars are battling in the ring simultaneously for the entire duration of a match, the overall chance of injury is heightened immeasurably.

Yet considering the stakes, perhaps the combatants wouldn’t have it any other way.

Mysterious though they remain to much of the WWE roster, the “Hounds of Justice” have become familiar foes of Kane and Daniel Bryan. The ever-popular titleholders were among the first Superstars to try to take down The Shield, having teamed with Ryback in a grueling Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match against the trio last December. Ultimately, The Shield prevailed in that contest, just as they did in a recent six-man tag against Kane, Bryan and WWE’s one and only Phenom, The Undertaker.

Even though Team Hell No has so far failed in its efforts to defeat The Shield, could Extreme Rules represent the perfect opportunity for Kane and Bryan to put into action whatever insight they’ve gleaned about the black-garbed insurgents?

The reigning champions will have ample motivation when they enter the ring Sunday. Besides their losses to The Shield in sanctioned competition, Bryan and Kane have fallen victim to the “Hounds of Justice’s” ambushes in the past. One such attack culminated with The Shield standing over Kane’s prone body and hoisting the tag team championship gold high overhead, as if to lay claim to the titles.

Was that scene only a sign of things to come this Sunday? Or will that memory, fresh in the minds of Kane and Bryan, be what propels Team Hell No past The Shield?

The only certainty is that Extreme Rules’ WWE Tag Team Championship Match will be fast and furious. With four of WWE’s most intense and dangerously creative Superstars left to their own devices in a Tag Team Tornado Match, “breathers” will be hard to come by. Catch the breakneck action this Sunday when Extreme Rules airs on pay-per-view beginning at 8 ET/5 PT.

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