The 5 most forgettable factions in wrestling history
Over the years, professional wrestling has had some legendary factions. From The Four Horsewomen in the 1980’s to DX and the NWO during the era of the Monday Night Wars, factions are as old as professional itself. Even in the modern era, factions like The Shield and The New Day have gotten over massively with fans and established themselves as attractions in their own right.
A major problem with a lot of factions is that the members are just thrown in together randomly and they have no chemistry together. They fail to create and impact and leave their mark. Even though a faction can be great means to elevate wrestlers to new heights, there are factions that just don’t click.
In this article I look at the 5 most forgettable wrestling factions of all time.
5: Spirit Squad
When the Spirit Squad are number 5, you know that the other factions on this list are really really bad. The spirit squad’s male cheerleader gimmick was dead on arrival. The made their debut in January 2006, helping Jonathan Coachman qualify for the Royal Rumble. Their gimmick soon turned into other wrestler paying them to cheer for them.
Eventually they wound their way into Vince McMahon’s feud with Shawn Michaels. The Spirit Squad’s most memorable moments in WWE came when DX rained feces down on them and Vince McMahon. The Spirit Squads last WWE match came in a 5-on-3 handicap match versus Triple H, Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair. In a backstage segment later in the show, HHH and Shawn Michaels dumped the Spirit Squad into a crate labeled “OVW”, WWE’s then developmental territory. Talk about a burial.
The only one of the group who went on to have a successful WWE career was Nicky, who today is known as Adolph Ziggler. Ziggler’s come a long way since the dark days of the spirit squad and is a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion.