Why did WWE Raw tag title change hands at Royal Rumble?

Bengaluru, February 4: At the Royal Rumble PPV, the prime championships from Raw and Smackdown were on the line. Apart from that, the two tag team championships from both the brands were also defended. The Usos were successful against their challengers while the team of Jason Jordan and Seth Rollins failed to do so.

It was the WWE Raw general manager, Kurt Angle who was the man to team up Jordan and Rollins following the injury suffered by Dean Ambrose. After winning the tag team titles on the final episode of 2017, Royal Rumble marked the first championship defense for them against The Bar who received the contractually obligated rematch.

It turned out to be a major shocker as the team featuring Sheamus and Cesaro picked up the title becoming 4-time champs. Some of the fans of the pro-wrestling universe were indeed surprised to see this title change coming out, out of nowhere. As per the recent updates from SportsKeeda.com, injury was the main reasons behind this.

Jason Jordan has been suffering from a back injury for quite sometimes. Due to this, he was sidelined from any in-ring competition, whatsoever over the past couple of weeks. This was a precautionary step by the officials to let him make competent in time for the dual-brand PPV. But, that was not the case and he was unable to wrestle on that night, too. Check out the updates from the source,

“Clearly, Jordan's back injury was so severe that he couldn't really take any bumps, or actively compete in-ring. That's why the pair were booked to lose the Tag-Team Titles. That's also why Jordan was effectively written out of the match with the ring-post spot.”

As you can see, a storyline perspective was arranged to portray a 'head injury’. As a part of this process, Jordan was shoved into the ring post with his head bumping into it. He was unable to compete in the match, thereafter. After this, Jordan left his partner high-and-dry who fought valiantly but ended up losing the handicap contest.