Spirit Squad - from main event to forgotten forever

[mrbananagrabber]

Well, except for two of them showing up out of the blue for a few weeks a year or so ago.

Has this ever happened before? Obviously guys go from World Champions to being shuffled down the card (Jinder, Swagger) but has there ever been a time where a bunch of guys come from nowhere, are THE focus for the show ( against DX) and then get promptly booted out of the company? I’m struggling to think of a time when someone, a wrestler or a team, has gone from so high a position to just being relegated to obscurity. Even when Dolph re-appeared he was a completely different character with no mention of his time as a tag champ.

Has this ever happened before?

[Dub H]

Feb 24, 2019 20:05:39 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

Well, except for two of them showing up out of the blue for a few weeks a year or so ago.

Has this ever happened before? Obviously guys go from World Champions to being shuffled down the card (Jinder, Swagger) but has there ever been a time where a bunch of guys come from nowhere, are THE focus for the show ( against DX) and then get promptly booted out of the company? I’m struggling to think of a time when someone, a wrestler or a team, has gone from so high a position to just being relegated to obscurity. Even when Dolph re-appeared he was a completely different character with no mention of his time as a tag champ.

Has this ever happened before?

The closest i can think of


Says a lot how when the group debuted it was a big thing and now it is barely worth mentioning ever.(especially omparing on how they will mention THE SHIELD 20 times a show).

[The Gallus Mark]

I LOVE the Spirit Squad. They were perfect heels.

I, too, didn’t get them being in main events then being banished. I’ve always wondered if there was something more to it since 3 of them never really appeared again.

[Dub H]

Feb 24, 2019 20:14:27 GMT -5 The Gallus Mark said:

I LOVE the Spirit Squad. They were perfect heels.

I, too, didn’t get them being in main events then being banished. I’ve always wondered if there was something more to it since 3 of them never really appeared again.

Vince probably got tired of the joke so he ended it.I doubt he ever saw the Spirit Squad as serious threats

[mrbananagrabber]

Feb 24, 2019 20:09:17 GMT -5 Dub H said:

Feb 24, 2019 20:05:39 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

Well, except for two of them showing up out of the blue for a few weeks a year or so ago.

Has this ever happened before? Obviously guys go from World Champions to being shuffled down the card (Jinder, Swagger) but has there ever been a time where a bunch of guys come from nowhere, are THE focus for the show ( against DX) and then get promptly booted out of the company? I’m struggling to think of a time when someone, a wrestler or a team, has gone from so high a position to just being relegated to obscurity. Even when Dolph re-appeared he was a completely different character with no mention of his time as a tag champ.

Has this ever happened before?

The closest i can think of


Says a lot how when the group debuted it was a big thing and now it is barely worth mentioning ever.(especially omparing on how they will mention THE SHIELD 20 times a show).

I thought of them but a lot of them were still in the company to a varying degree, they weren’t just deleted from the company like the Spirit Squad.

[Rudy Gobert Fingers]

It was like they spent 6 months in a drugged up haze and then afterwards realized "oh shit, we've been pushing comedy cheerleaders as top heels for *how* long?"

[Dub H]

Feb 24, 2019 20:25:41 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

Feb 24, 2019 20:09:17 GMT -5 Dub H said:

The closest i can think of


Says a lot how when the group debuted it was a big thing and now it is barely worth mentioning ever.(especially omparing on how they will mention THE SHIELD 20 times a show).

I thought of them but a lot of them were still in the company to a varying degree, they weren’t just deleted from the company like the Spirit Squad.

Individually no,but as as a identity they were deleted right after disbanding.

Plus, Daniel Bryan is the only one relevant today/that was never shoved down the card and he was in the stable for one day.

[MrElijah]

Feb 24, 2019 20:27:17 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fingers said:

It was like they spent 6 months in a drugged up haze and then afterwards realized "oh shit, we've been pushing comedy cheerleaders as top heels for *how* long?"

I remember hating these WCW Saturday Night goobers. Like, why were they on my TV and World Tag Team Champs?!

[Rudy Gobert Fingers]

Feb 24, 2019 20:38:50 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Feb 24, 2019 20:27:17 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fingers said:

It was like they spent 6 months in a drugged up haze and then afterwards realized "oh shit, we've been pushing comedy cheerleaders as top heels for *how* long?"

I remember hating these WCW Saturday Night goobers. Like, why were they on my TV and World Tag Team Champs?!

Shit like the Spirit Squad vs. DX angle was probably one of the main reasons TNA hooked me so much that year. Just horrendously boring.

[Perd]

Kenny was the twentiest twenty year old that ever twenty year olded.

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

Was The Patriot/Bret Hart program in the main event?

If so Patriot, that dude just randomly shows up and somehow ended up getting a shot at the title.

Then he disappeared pretty quickly

[MrElijah]

Feb 24, 2019 20:43:39 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fingers said:

Feb 24, 2019 20:38:50 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

I remember hating these WCW Saturday Night goobers. Like, why were they on my TV and World Tag Team Champs?!

Shit like the Spirit Squad vs. DX angle was probably one of the main reasons TNA hooked me so much that year. Just horrendously boring.

Man, you ain't lying. Low-Ki as Senshi(anybody know WHY he changed his name?), Joe beating ass, the World X Cup(Young Goto! Liger! Minoru Tanaka?!) and Christian as world champ, Monty Brown....


See folks, this is why fans are hard on Impact. The potential was there and we wanted them to succeed.

[Rudy Gobert Fingers]

Feb 24, 2019 20:57:27 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Feb 24, 2019 20:43:39 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fingers said:

Shit like the Spirit Squad vs. DX angle was probably one of the main reasons TNA hooked me so much that year. Just horrendously boring.

Man, you ain't lying. Low-Ki as Senshi(anybody know WHY he changed his name?), Joe beating ass, the World X Cup(Young Goto! Liger! Minoru Tanaka?!) and Christian as world champ, Monty Brown....


See folks, this is why fans are hard on Impact. The potential was there and we wanted them to succeed.

Even when the product got worse in 07 with Russo's return, I still infinitely preferred it to watching deathly boring dudes like Bobby Lashley and Umaga get monster pushes

[MrElijah]

Feb 24, 2019 21:00:55 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fingers said:

Feb 24, 2019 20:57:27 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Man, you ain't lying. Low-Ki as Senshi(anybody know WHY he changed his name?), Joe beating ass, the World X Cup(Young Goto! Liger! Minoru Tanaka?!) and Christian as world champ, Monty Brown....


See folks, this is why fans are hard on Impact. The potential was there and we wanted them to succeed.

Even when the product got worse in 07 with Russo's return, I still infinitely preferred it to watching deathly boring dudes like Bobby Lashley and Umaga get monster pushes

Dire ass midcard booking will do that to you.

[MiLB Fan]

True story: I saw the Spirit Squad at a house show before they officially debuted on TV. Kenny (introduced as Ken Doane) beat Val Venis. It’s also worth mentioning that there were only two of them at this point, and they wore purple outfits instead of green.

[agent817]

Feb 24, 2019 20:52:19 GMT -5 Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite said:

Was The Patriot/Bret Hart program in the main event?

If so Patriot, that dude just randomly shows up and somehow ended up getting a shot at the title.

Then he disappeared pretty quickly

This was before I got into it, and I may need to watch 1997 WWE to see for sure, but from what I understood, he was brought in because Bret Hart had that whole anti-America angle going and he was the foil. Also, he got injured not long after, so that was why he wasn't seen after that.

Also, wasn't the main event angle at that time Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker? I mean their match at Ground Zero went on last with Bret/Patriot going before. They even closed the show at Badd Blood the following month.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Rumor and innuendo is that Ken Doane was gonna get a push, even being paired with Rated RKO, but he acted a fool while he got f***ed up in a bar so the office soured on him.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Mike Mondo tried to have a career resurgence in ROH but it didn’t last.

Then Johnny Jeter who apparently had the most potential out of the group, quit the business after the spirit squad.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

They needed to be hired goons for a dark Raven like character

[chazraps]

Feb 24, 2019 22:52:32 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Mike Mondo tried to have a career resurgence in ROH but it didn’t last.

Mondo did a lot of good work in ROH (just revisited a lot of 2012/2013 ROH TV last night) but had the double-shot of getting injured, and then coming back waaaay too early and getting injured even worse. Then Cornette was gone from ROH and Delirious was wiping the slate clean.

For as much as the Cornette era of ROH smells funny, the Mondo stuff was really good. His world title match against Kevin Steen was great.