Who has been in the most factions/stables?

[darthobiwan]

Now that Rock has been in 3 different stables in his career (Nation, Corporation, Bloodline), what is the most different stables someone was involved in?

Ric Flair may be a contender at 5 (not all wwe since I will count Four Horsemen, NWO, Evolution, Forftune, and Immortal).

[The Rick Jericho]

Randy Orton:

Evolution
Rated RKO
Legacy
The Authority
The Wyatt Family
RKO Bro

[darthobiwan]

Mar 2, 2024 10:56:15 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

Randy Orton:

Evolution
Rated RKO
Legacy
The Authority
The Wyatt Family
RKO Bro

I don't think Rated Rko or Rko Bro count since they were a tag team and only 2 in the group. But the other 4 would still count.

[Talent Name]

Triple H
The McMahon-Helmsley Faction
DX
Evolution
The Corporation
Corporate Ministry
The Authority

[gl83]

Mar 2, 2024 10:56:15 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

Randy Orton:

Evolution
Rated RKO
Legacy
The Authority
The Wyatt Family
RKO Bro

[clc]

Mar 2, 2024 11:08:37 GMT -5 Talent Name said:

Triple H
The McMahon-Helmsley Faction
DX
Evolution
The Corporation
Corporate Ministry
The Authority

He was also in the Shield

[The Rick Jericho]

CM Punk:

ECW New Breed
Straight Edge Society
The New Nexus

[fw91]

Edge
The Brood
The Ministry
La Familia
The Judgment Day

[Aceorton]

Kevin Nash has a ton, depending on what you consider a true stable:

WCW
- Diamond Mine
- Half-Ton of Holy Hell (didn't even know about this one until I looked it up)
- nWo (also in WWE)
- nWo Wolfpack (feels like this counts as something separate)
- nWo 2000 (do we count this?)
- Millionaires Club

TNA
- Kings of Wrestling
- Paparazzi Productions
- Main Event Mafia
- The Band (repackage of original nWo guys)

[darthobiwan]

Mar 2, 2024 13:49:09 GMT -5 Aceorton said:

Kevin Nash has a ton, depending on what you consider a true stable:

WCW
- Diamond Mine
- Half-Ton of Holy Hell (didn't even know about this one until I looked it up)
- nWo (also in WWE)
- nWo Wolfpack (feels like this counts as something separate)
- nWo 2000 (do we count this?)
- Millionaires Club

TNA
- Kings of Wrestling
- Paparazzi Productions
- Main Event Mafia
- The Band (repackage of original nWo guys)

I guess you can say the Kliq too 😉

[darbus alan]

Ric Flair

WCW:

Four Horsemen
Alliance to End Hulkamania (yes, this was a merged-faction of the Horsemmen and the Dungeon of Doom, but I count them as separate like I would count the Corporation, Ministry of Darkness, and Corporate Ministry as separate factions)
Millionaire's Club
Magnificent Seven

WWF/WWE:

Heenan Family
Evolution

TNA:

Immortal
Fourtune/Fortune

[fw91]

Mar 2, 2024 16:00:46 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

Ric Flair

WCW:

Four Horsemen
Alliance to End Hulkamania (yes, this was a merged-faction of the Horsemmen and the Dungeon of Doom, but I count them as separate like I would count the Corporation, Ministry of Darkness, and Corporate Ministry as separate factions)
Millionaire's Club
Magnificent Seven

WWF/WWE:

Heenan Family
Evolution

TNA:

Immortal
Fourtune/Fortune

Was he really apart of the Heenan Family? I feel like that folded once Heenan went to broadcasting.

[chrom]

Big Show

[darbus alan]

Mar 2, 2024 16:20:49 GMT -5 fw91 said:

Mar 2, 2024 16:00:46 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

Ric Flair

WCW:

Four Horsemen
Alliance to End Hulkamania (yes, this was a merged-faction of the Horsemmen and the Dungeon of Doom, but I count them as separate like I would count the Corporation, Ministry of Darkness, and Corporate Ministry as separate factions)
Millionaire's Club
Magnificent Seven

WWF/WWE:

Heenan Family
Evolution

TNA:

Immortal
Fourtune/Fortune

Was he really apart of the Heenan Family? I feel like that folded once Heenan went to broadcasting.

While Heenan stepped down as a manager, he was practically Flair's personal commentator during his first WWF tenure and even celebrated with him in the ring as the new WWF Champ at the 1992 Royal Rumble. Cagematch and the WWE Encyclopedia also consider him part of the Heenan Family while in WWF.

Granted, the Heenan Family was a lot like NJPW's Chaos where it became a pretty loosely-affiliated group compared to the nWo's and DX's of the world.

[darthobiwan]

Mar 2, 2024 16:29:18 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

Mar 2, 2024 16:20:49 GMT -5 fw91 said:

Was he really apart of the Heenan Family? I feel like that folded once Heenan went to broadcasting.

While Heenan stepped down as a manager, he was practically Flair's personal commentator during his first WWF tenure and even celebrated with him in the ring as the new WWF Champ at the 1992 Royal Rumble. Cagematch and the WWE Encyclopedia also consider him part of the Heenan Family while in WWF.

Granted, the Heenan Family was a lot like NJPW's Chaos where it became a pretty loosely-affiliated group compared to the nWo's and DX's of the world.

Not sure on specifics but I believe it was around July or August of 1991 (right before Summerslam) when Bobby Heenan started "parading around the nwa title" and saying Ric Flair was coming. I know he was going back and forth between managing and announcing at the time, and it may have been BEFORE Mr. Perfect transitioned from Bobby to Coach. So not sure if Bobby was planning to stay as part/full time manager with Flair a part of the "family", or if Bobby was just dropping down from 5 clients to just Flair before they decided to have him as "consultant " and Perfect as "manager/advisor".

[tirtefaa]

Mar 2, 2024 10:50:22 GMT -5 darthobiwan said:

Ric Flair may be a contender at 5 (not all wwe since I will count Four Horsemen, NWO, Evolution, Fortune, and Immortal).

Ric Flair was never in the nWo.

[Hypnosis]

Mar 2, 2024 21:57:04 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Mar 2, 2024 10:50:22 GMT -5 darthobiwan said:

Ric Flair may be a contender at 5 (not all wwe since I will count Four Horsemen, NWO, Evolution, Fortune, and Immortal).

Ric Flair was never in the nWo.

Except in my weird-ass dream during the time the NWO was still around in WCW.

In the dream, Flair came out of a meeting Hogan called with all the members backstage "wooing" out of the room, when Flair hadn't been seen with them before that, so he even got overshadowed by Hogan as an ally.

[schma]

Mar 2, 2024 21:57:04 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Mar 2, 2024 10:50:22 GMT -5 darthobiwan said:

Ric Flair may be a contender at 5 (not all wwe since I will count Four Horsemen, NWO, Evolution, Fortune, and Immortal).

Ric Flair was never in the nWo.

I just realized why the nWo helped Sting at Wrestlemania despite him being one of their biggest adversaries. They'd all gone senile and thought he was the fake Sting that was in the nWo.

[CMWaters]

Mar 2, 2024 21:57:04 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Mar 2, 2024 10:50:22 GMT -5 darthobiwan said:

Ric Flair may be a contender at 5 (not all wwe since I will count Four Horsemen, NWO, Evolution, Fortune, and Immortal).

Ric Flair was never in the nWo.

He did seem to have connections with WWE's nWo though, as he was the one that put Booker T into the group.

[dangerousdanpotato]

Mar 2, 2024 20:29:47 GMT -5 darthobiwan said:

Mar 2, 2024 16:29:18 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

While Heenan stepped down as a manager, he was practically Flair's personal commentator during his first WWF tenure and even celebrated with him in the ring as the new WWF Champ at the 1992 Royal Rumble. Cagematch and the WWE Encyclopedia also consider him part of the Heenan Family while in WWF.

Granted, the Heenan Family was a lot like NJPW's Chaos where it became a pretty loosely-affiliated group compared to the nWo's and DX's of the world.

Not sure on specifics but I believe it was around July or August of 1991 (right before Summerslam) when Bobby Heenan started "parading around the nwa title" and saying Ric Flair was coming. I know he was going back and forth between managing and announcing at the time, and it may have been BEFORE Mr. Perfect transitioned from Bobby to Coach. So not sure if Bobby was planning to stay as part/full time manager with Flair a part of the "family", or if Bobby was just dropping down from 5 clients to just Flair before they decided to have him as "consultant " and Perfect as "manager/advisor".

Heenan Family was done before the Flair angle kicked off. Bobby has said he wanted to wrap up his on-screen manager role since he couldn't work through the pain from his old neck injury anymore. He couldn't do anything that involved interacting with the wrestlers physically. When WWF signed Flair they couldn't bring him in immediately due to contract issues, so they decided to make Heenan his onscreen mouthpiece to start hyping his arrival. When Flair turned up, Bobby he was never at ringside with him and Mr. Perfect fulfilled the traditional manager role.