Vince McMahon Has A Secret Rule Regarding Tag Team Matches

As seen on Monday's WWE Raw on USA Network Seth Rollins and Murphy teamed up against Aleister Black and Rey Mysterio. The finish of the tag bout left many confused when Rollins attacked Mysterio and was disqualified because he wasn’t technically the legal man in the match.

The Wrestling Observer is reporting that the match ended due toVince McMahon’s secret 5-second rule regarding Tag Team matches. 

“There is in fact a secret rule, it’s a Vince McMahon rule. 

In a tag team match, you know how you tag and there’s 5 seconds when you can both be in the ring at the same time, right? If I tag you, for 5 seconds we can both be in the ring as the referee counts to 5.

However, outside of that 5 seconds if you are not the legal man, you cannot touch the other team’s legal man. Vince is adamant that this be enforced.

If you are legal, you are allowed to hit the other team’s illegal man but the illegal man cannot touch the legal man. So Rey, because he’s legal, is allowed to hit Seth on the apron but Seth on the apron is not allowed to hit Rey. Seth can hit Aleister because they are both illegal. Legal can hit illegal but illegal cannot hit legal but illegal can hit illegal.

Vince is so adamant about this rule that when the wrestlers put together matches, there are spots that they want to do but the can’t because they will violate this rule. Even though I said all of that, you are still allowed to break up a pin.

So illegal, as noted, can hit legal to break up the pin. If the illegal man tries to make a pin and the ref isn’t paying attention and the illegal man hits the illegal man, I think that’s a disqualification.

If you are on the apron and you step inside and you punch the legal man, even though it has no bearing on the match, that’s a disqualification. But if someone is pinning your partner and you step in and break it up, which is a save, that is legal.

That’s why Rey went for the 619 and Seth grabbed him and threw him on the floor and that was a disqualification. Because of this crazy rule.”