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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 27, 2022 0:11:13 GMT -5
United Nation of Domination  They were kinda entertaining until Cokehead del Knife Fight joined. Agreed, though I do love that after the group dissolved, Rusev and Lana did an interview with Cole where Rusev basically said in kayfabe that the group was formed on a whim, and Lana said the reason she didn't accompany them was because she thought it was a foolish use of his time. Just kind of funny when these sorts of nods are given to angles that didn't go where they were likely intended. Foley to Rock: "Didn't you Rock Bottom me the last time we were in a ring together?" Rock: "No one remembers that." *continues talking about something else.* |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 27, 2022 2:21:19 GMT -5
Teddy Long's stable. Craig Pittman, Joey Maggs, and Chris Jericho got caught up with them for awhile. Don't forget "Hardwork" Bobby Walker was also a member lol |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 27, 2022 2:24:15 GMT -5
TITUS WORLDWIDE!!!  All the years Daena has been in WWE and the only time she was remotely interesting was when she was cosplaying a secretary from a Brazzers movie. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 27, 2022 2:31:41 GMT -5
On the first or second episode of SD in 2002 Big Bossman, Booker T and Vince McMahon left Rock and Austin laid out in the middle of the ring to end the show. Austin even did a blade job for this. It looked like the beginning of a faction that would be treated as a serious threat... It was vaguely referenced the following week and was never mentioned again after.
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Post by mrpeacock on Sept 27, 2022 7:32:22 GMT -5
La Familia  This doesn’t even include the best member, “Human Fence” Bam Neely |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Sept 27, 2022 13:58:25 GMT -5
La Familia This doesn’t even include the best member, “Human Fence” Bam Neely Worst nickname in WWE history. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 27, 2022 14:06:59 GMT -5
La Familia Whoever came up with La Familia obviously also came up with JBL's Cabinet a few years prior. Same concept. Surround the world champion/main eventer with a few flunky's that nobody takes seriously. Put the tag belts on the team in the faction but make sure nobody takes them seriously as champions. Throw a secondary title on the secondary guy in the group, Chavo/ECW, Jordan/U.S. I'm looking at you, Bruce Prichard. |
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Sept 27, 2022 15:13:24 GMT -5
La Familia Whoever came up with La Familia obviously also came up with JBL's Cabinet a few years prior. Same concept. Surround the world champion/main eventer with a few flunky's that nobody takes seriously. Put the tag belts on the team in the faction but make sure nobody takes them seriously as champions. Throw a secondary title on the secondary guy in the group, Chavo/ECW, Jordan/U.S. I'm looking at you, Bruce Prichard. The Bashams were top prospects at the time, they just got exposed when they weren't the only guys who spent more than a year in OVW. BUT you forgot the most important part, the tag team has to look vaguely similar to each other so they can clearly cheat but get away with it because having impaired vision is a requirement of being a wrestling ref as a man. |
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Sept 27, 2022 15:24:07 GMT -5
Teddy Long's stable. Craig Pittman, Joey Maggs, and Chris Jericho got caught up with them for awhile. Don't forget "Hardwork" Bobby Walker was also a member lol As were Ice Train, Jim Powers, and Alex Wright for about three weeks before he turned heel on Walker, I think. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 27, 2022 15:36:20 GMT -5
La Familia Whoever came up with La Familia obviously also came up with JBL's Cabinet a few years prior. Same concept. Surround the world champion/main eventer with a few flunky's that nobody takes seriously. Put the tag belts on the team in the faction but make sure nobody takes them seriously as champions. Throw a secondary title on the secondary guy in the group, Chavo/ECW, Jordan/U.S. I'm looking at you, Bruce Prichard. Yep. At least JBL and the Cabinet had the point of "Get it, politics" for heat, like they leaned in hard on that for heat. La Familia didn't really even have that amount of depth to the concept. |
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Post by Gremlin on Sept 27, 2022 18:14:23 GMT -5
Whoever came up with La Familia obviously also came up with JBL's Cabinet a few years prior. Same concept. Surround the world champion/main eventer with a few flunky's that nobody takes seriously. Put the tag belts on the team in the faction but make sure nobody takes them seriously as champions. Throw a secondary title on the secondary guy in the group, Chavo/ECW, Jordan/U.S. I'm looking at you, Bruce Prichard. Yep. At least JBL and the Cabinet had the point of "Get it, politics" for heat, like they leaned in hard on that for heat. La Familia didn't really even have that amount of depth to the concept. Remember when JBL pretended to be affected by a tranquilizer dart so that he could act like he wanted to fight an inflatable Godzilla in order to lure out Big Show and have The Cabinet (unsuccessfully) beat him up? Halcyon days, my friend. |
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Sept 27, 2022 21:18:08 GMT -5
Brian Christopher/Lawler, Erik Watts, and David Flair as The Next Generation springs to mind. The Forgotten Sons, I call em |
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Post by The Blue Nova on Sept 27, 2022 21:25:20 GMT -5
In Tna I remember Jarrett having a stable in like 2003 early 2004 with him Kid Kash The red shirts and Abyss
also Justin Credible Saturn New Jack and saturn was a stable
In WWE didn't Shane have a faction in 2000 with him Edge Christian Benoit Kurt Angle and Big Show
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 27, 2022 21:32:42 GMT -5
In Tna I remember Jarrett having a stable in like 2003 early 2004 with him Kid Kash The red shirts and Abyss also Justin Credible Saturn New Jack and saturn was a stable In WWE didn't Shane have a faction in 2000 with him Edge Christian Benoit Kurt Angle and Big Show Sort of. Shane was associated with Test, Edge and Christian, Kurt, Big Show, and Rhyno at various times, as well as managing Chris Benoit for a little bit, but I don't know if they were ever a formal thing together. Rhyno, E&C, and Kurt did call themselves "Team RECK" I think, but I don't think Shane was with them at the time. It's sort of wild how that worked out, given I don't know how much they really explained some of these connections, outside of them maybe acknowledging that Edge and Christian knew Rhyno from the Canadian indies scene before any of the three of them took off in some oblique way. I can't really recall. |
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Post by saneiac on Sept 27, 2022 23:16:10 GMT -5
La Familia Whoever came up with La Familia obviously also came up with JBL's Cabinet a few years prior. Same concept. Surround the world champion/main eventer with a few flunky's that nobody takes seriously. Put the tag belts on the team in the faction but make sure nobody takes them seriously as champions. Throw a secondary title on the secondary guy in the group, Chavo/ECW, Jordan/U.S. I'm looking at you, Bruce Prichard. Minus the secondary title part, this was also the setup of The Hurt Business. At least until Cedric and Shelton were really good together and people actually did start to take them seriously, which they had to be punished for. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 27, 2022 23:40:17 GMT -5
I remember two from the indies... The Gold Bond Mafia with CM Punk, Colt Cabana, Chris Hero, Paul E.Smooth, Adam Pearce, and Dave Prazzak.  The Black T-Shirt Squad with Reckless Youth, Mike Quackenbush, and Dirty Don Montoya.  (here with three of the Gold Bond Mafia, this was the main event at the first CHIKARA show) |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 28, 2022 3:28:13 GMT -5
I remember two from the indies... The Gold Bond Mafia with CM Punk, Colt Cabana, Chris Hero, Paul E.Smooth, Adam Pearce, and Dave Prazzak. The Black T-Shirt Squad with Reckless Youth, Mike Quackenbush, and Dirty Don Montoya. (here with three of the Gold Bond Mafia, this was the main event at the first CHIKARA show) Since muffingate I really cannot take Punk's serious faces in photos seriously any more |
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Post by Jim Stansel on Sept 28, 2022 10:01:32 GMT -5
Kidman, Joe Gomez, Alex Wright and someone else (Scott Putski?) .... I believe called the "In-Crowd" Not sure if they were limited to WCW Worldwide and Pro though
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Post by Fundertaker on Sept 28, 2022 10:09:39 GMT -5
Yep. At least JBL and the Cabinet had the point of "Get it, politics" for heat, like they leaned in hard on that for heat. La Familia didn't really even have that amount of depth to the concept. Remember when JBL pretended to be affected by a tranquilizer dart so that he could act like he wanted to fight an inflatable Godzilla in order to lure out Big Show and have The Cabinet (unsuccessfully) beat him up? Halcyon days, my friend. "He's a dinossaur, his name's Barney. He eats pizza!" |
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Post by agent817 on Sept 28, 2022 10:13:58 GMT -5
You want to talk "forgotten"? I'll give you "forgotten."  How long did this last? I remember them forming on Smackdown back in 2011 and then coming out, but after that it was forgotten about. Then Primo and Epico were put with Rosa Mendes later on. |
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