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Post by TGM on Aug 22, 2014 9:29:56 GMT -5
I was watching Royal Rumble 1999 yesterday and I completely forgot that, even though The Nation had disbanded the previous year, D'Lo Brown and Mark Henry were still flying Nation colours (although not named The Nation) and would continue to team up until late summer that year.
Are there any other examples of this? The only others I could think of were David Otunga and Mike McGillicutty as the last two members of The New Nexus and possibly Tim Donst and Jakob Hammermeier who were the last two memebers of BDK if I'm remembering properly.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 22, 2014 9:39:21 GMT -5
I don't know if the New Age Outlaws would count, since they had teamed prior to joining D-X, anyway, but one could argue they at least fit the spirit of the question, continuing to use green and black as their colors and a lot of crotch chops, etc.
While it was never an actual stable, Ryback and Curtis Axel began teaming when they were both aligned with Paul Heyman in his feud with CM Punk. They have continued to team ever since.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 9:47:13 GMT -5
The Legion of Doom lost members until finally it was just the Road Warriors, then WWE adopted the stable name as their tag team name.
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Post by TGM on Aug 22, 2014 9:50:25 GMT -5
I don't know if the New Age Outlaws would count, since they had teamed prior to joining D-X, anyway, but one could argue they at least fit the spirit of the question, continuing to use green and black as their colors and a lot of crotch chops, etc. While it was never an actual stable, Ryback and Curtis Axel began teaming when they were both aligned with Paul Heyman in his feud with CM Punk. They have continued to team ever since. I was thinking about these two but I think the two times that DX split, Road Dogg would align with X-Pac and Billy Gunn would fly solo. I'm not entirely sure if Road Dogg and X-Pac were still teaming as heels once DX finally ended in late 2000, although Triple H wasn't with them so much. |
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Aug 22, 2014 12:07:07 GMT -5
The Brood. That would work, no?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 12:14:45 GMT -5
Pretty sure the original incarnation of the nWo ended with Brian Adams and Horace Hogan as a tag team.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Aug 22, 2014 12:27:32 GMT -5
Slater and Gabriel out of Nexus; Austin Aries and Roderick Strong out of Generation Next (they disbanded the stable while still tag champs); Otunga and McGuillicutty out of New Nexus.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 22, 2014 13:37:09 GMT -5
Would The Brainbusters count?
I mean the stable was in another company.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 13:51:40 GMT -5
Would The Brainbusters count? I mean the stable was in another company. If not the Brainbusters (since they technically were the ones who left the Horsemen), Ric and Barry would probably count because they tagged up quite a bit after the Busters departed and still called themselves the Horsemen. |
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Aug 22, 2014 13:56:23 GMT -5
The Ascension started with like 5 people didn't it?
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Post by Brother-RD on Aug 22, 2014 14:49:36 GMT -5
Kaientai comes to mind immediately.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Aug 22, 2014 17:00:53 GMT -5
The Ascension started with like 5 people didn't it? It did because Ricardo, Raquel Diaz, Tito Colon, and Kenneth Cameron were in it |
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Post by wallabylikeyou on Aug 22, 2014 18:55:59 GMT -5
The Ascension group formed in August 2010, if Konnor and Viktor have a decent-length run on the main roster then The Ascension will end up lasting longer than the NWO.
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Post by The Blue Nova on Aug 23, 2014 0:43:27 GMT -5
Would the dudleys count?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Aug 23, 2014 2:04:59 GMT -5
Absolutely, and great call. A bit of technicality, but weren't there just two members of the Natural Born Thrillers left, and teaming, by the end of the Invasion or soon after? Didn't Paul Jones' Army whittle down to the Powers of Pain and when they bolted, he was done in Crockett/WCW? Also, if you consider three-man teams as stables, 3 Count, Jung Dragons and in ways, the Freebirds and Varsity Club (if you include their comeback, which was just Rotunda and Steiner). |
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 23, 2014 2:26:39 GMT -5
Absolutely, and great call. A bit of technicality, but weren't there just two members of the Natural Born Thrillers left, and teaming, by the end of the Invasion or soon after? Didn't Paul Jones' Army whittle down to the Powers of Pain and when they bolted, he was done in Crockett/WCW? Also, if you consider three-man teams as stables, 3 Count, Jung Dragons and in ways, the Freebirds and Varsity Club (if you include their comeback, which was just Rotunda and Steiner). Yeah, O'Haire and Palumbo kept teaming after the Thrillers broke up, from what I remember. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 23, 2014 8:38:44 GMT -5
Didn't Paul Jones' Army whittle down to the Powers of Pain and when they bolted, he was done in Crockett/WCW? No, as he still had Ivan Koloff and the Russian Assassin, then another Assassin after Ivan turned face. Actually, he'd be a REVERSE of the trope, as after the Powers of Pain left, for a while he tried to rename his army the "Powers of Pain," as I recall him still using the name in reference to himself and his wrestlers. A sad real-life version: the Von Erichs. Kind of a threadjack, but speaking of post-Nation D'Lo & Mark, did anyone else like D'Lo's theme between the Nation one and Danger at the Door? (Well the original version, there was a remix but it was softer) |
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Post by somsta on Aug 23, 2014 8:40:45 GMT -5
Flair and HHH were called Evolution after Orton and Batista were out of the group.
And while not technically what we're looking for here, this thread made me realize the last incarnation of the nWo came down to Jeff Jarrett and the Harris Boys. How sad is that?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 9:16:02 GMT -5
I have an interesting case: the FBI, Full-Blooded Italians.
They started as a tag-team of JT Smith and Little Guido, slowly added temporary members to become a stable, devolved into a tag-team at the tail-end of the original ECW.
Started back up with the WWE's ECW and did the same thing.
(Also did the same thing in TNA.)
The one constant was Little Guido/Nunzio. As long as he was involved, there was always some sort of FBI.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 9:18:14 GMT -5
Just goes to show you the lack of attention wrestling unions get.
You could mine any units' falling away for tv time, if you cared to. It makes you miss the old school. Guys would subtly fall away from each other for the better part of a year. You don't get that now. It's too snap snap right now, there's no time, payoff snap snap. I miss shit like a guy being out of place for a tag once and acting kinda goofy about it.
Wrestling just ain't that crafty anymore. There's no build, no boil. Your tag partner will just show up next week wearing his "I hit the other guy in the face with a chair because he was holding me back" t-shirt on and cut a promo and it's finished.
You people are dumb. I don't mean FAN members, just whoever it is that they feel the need to structure all this for.
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