Which is the worst faction in WWE history?

[MrMojoRisin]

Anyone who said the Mean Street Posse I feel sorry for. You must have no joy in your lives. That whole angle was just fun. You had Shane McMahon, who at that point had never been in a ring, trying to put himself over as a badass by talking about his days growing up on the mean streets of Greenwich, CT, telling stories about him and his boys Joey Abs, Pete Gas and Rodney. Then he actually took it a step further and actually brought these guys he'd been putting over out with him, and they looked as ridiculous as you'd expect this Mean Street Posse to look. It was just a fun angle. Admittedly, they kept them around a little too long, considering I believe only Rodney was actually a worker, and the other two were just friends of Shane's... but that hardly makes them the worst ever.

I'd look at the all time worst as a faction that was actually supposed to mean something. A lot of these were never intended to be anything more than they were. So my vote has to go to the Spirit Squad. On paper it looked good. A group of male cheerleaders. Wrestling fans are going to hate that group. They're instant heels. But to take that concept, and make them your main heels, partner them with the McMahon's (we were supposed to believe that they couldn't find anyone other than these kids to be their henchmen?), and put them in the main event against the 40 year old degenerates with their receding hairlines?

Up until that, I'd been watching WWE pretty religiously for years. That was the point I stopped doing anything more than watch occasionally, and that didn't change for years. The Spirit Squad would have been great if it was a mid card faction. Because of where they put it, to me it's the worst one they've ever had.

 

[IrishCanadian25]

I'm skipping the poll, because the choices provided, like a "WWE Fan Active" vote, are clearly designed to drive people to a particular answer. The ONLY group on that list that was subpar was the Corre, and it was insignificant.

I'm going to go with The Oddities. WWE had this collection of sizable talent with zero creative direction, so they packages them into a side show freak act and stuck Sable with them as the "beautiful girl who understood the weird looking, strange-active outcasts." For her it made sense, since that's every wrestling fan's wet dream - a gorgeous woman who goes for freaks.

The Oddities truly went nowhere and meant nothing. They were a last ditch effort to squeeze some miles out of guys who were on the roster, lacked talent to get over themselves, and would never crack the midcard, let alone the main event.

 

[something]

Sure RTC might sound like a bad idea but remember they were formed at the height of the Attitude Era which there was a lot of raunchy content so having a group trying to sensor all this was a great way to piss off the fans. Sure they were not a major faction but they served their purpose.

Plus who didn't like the irony that The Godfather (previously with a Pimp Gimmick) and Val Venis (a porn star) joining the team. Also it gave Stevie Richards a role in the WWE. And he was great in the mic as well as Ivory who had a decent feud with Lita.

I also seem to recall that they were the storyline reason for "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn being forced to drop that moniker? (and becoming "The One" Billy Gunn?)

 

[King Patrick Star]

The purpose of a Pro Sports Wrestling Entertainment Stable is to win Championships and secure Championships with the “Strength In Numbers” strategy for Heels or the “Trust Your Team” mentality for Faces. So with that being said, below are the Championships and accomplishments for each of the Stables listed in the poll.

DX
WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Triple H and Shawn Michaels
WWF Championship (3 times) – Shawn Michaels (1) and Triple H (2)
WWF European Championship (5 times) – Shawn Michaels (1), Triple H (2) and X-Pac (2)
WWF Hardcore Championship (2 times) – Road Dogg (1) and Billy Gunn (1)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (3 times) – Triple H (2) and Road Dogg (1)
WWF/World Tag Team Championship (7 times) – (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) (4), X-Pac and Kane (2) and Triple H and Shawn Michaels (1)
WWF Women's Championship (1 time) – Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley

Evolution
World Heavyweight Championship (6 times) – Triple H (5) and Randy Orton (1)
World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – Ric Flair and Batista (2)
WWE Intercontinental Championship (2 times) – Randy Orton (1), Flair (1)
Royal Rumble (2005) - Batista

Right to Censor
WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - Buchanan and Goodfather
WWF Women's Championship (1 time) - Ivory

Nexus
WWE Tag Team Championship (3 times) – John Cena and David Otunga (1), Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel (1), David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty (1)

The Corre
WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time) - Wade Barrett
WWE Tag Team Championship (2 times) - Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel

Before I answer the question, I have a question of my own. How can any of these 5 Stables even be categorized in a poll to determine the Worst Faction in WWE History?? There are far too many Stables throughout history that have been less relevant and less accomplished than the 5 listed.

I will try to name 15 (WZ’s poll max) other Stables that should have been in that poll instead of these 5.

• A. P. P. L. E.
• Blue World Order
• Los Boricuas
• Disciples of Apocalypse
• The Million Dollar Corporation
• New Breed
• Oddities
• Pretty Mean Sisters
• Straight Edge Society
• Thuggin' & Buggin' Enterprises
• Truth Commission
• The Union
• Vince’s Devils
• Jim Cornette’s NWA (Should have been so much better!!)
• WWE’s NWO (Bad luck is the only reason why they are on this list)

Pick any of these 15 and there’s your answer.

 

[theBec2101]

It has to be the Core. They only lasted for about 2 weeks. They had no major storyline or feuds. They really just wanted Barrett to be part of something but again creative couldn’t come up with anything.
The Straight Edge Society was the next failed faction. They had nothing as a whole. They had 2 main members and they were very forgettable not to mention the 5sec we sow Joey Mercury. They only good thing about this faction were the cheap shots at Jeff Hardy
Then you have the Nexus. As individual they were great. As a group who the hell were they? Why could they take out the entire WWE locker room? They lost more members quicker than the SES. They could have been great but another epic failure due to creative.
Same with New Nexus, just trying to get people involved with no success. What were even worse, people in new nexus aren’t even on TV anymore and people that were in SES aren’t even in WWE besides Punk.

For those who say RTC. How do you figure they were the worse of them all? They had a gimmick and a storyline. They had decent feuds. Com on the Godfather and Val Venis joined them that were a joke within itself. They were anti DX and them trying to censor DX was a comical.

 

[Mantis]

I have to say Nexus and Corre (which I lumped together because the Corre was basically a Nexus splinter group) for the simple reason that no other stable had such a big push for such a little payoff.

 

[braveh]

I got to say that any stable with Edge was the worst ever. That guy didn't look good in a stable. (as for the worst of all time it is the main event mafia how did that crap make any sense?)

I just want to defend Corre and Nexus because I believe they were both victims of the current WWE's creative tendency to just drop storylines and angles. I thought both NExus and Corre were built up well and you got the way cool confrontation at Royal rumble 2011, it was all built up to a cool pinnacle brawl that never happened due to WWE's creative team. If they would've run the course I'm sure many of you would've loved the angle.

 

[Rabbid Wolverine]

I liked the Job Squad... especially Gilberg.. he was awesome and had more wrestling skill than Goldberg.

My least favourite groups would be the Money Inc or whatever they were called, I'm talking about the time when it was Bam Bam vs LT at Mania... basically Bam Bam and friends (Bundy, Tatanka, IRS, Nikolai Volkoff... maybe some more people)

Another was when WCW brought back different version of the horsemen (Flair, Arn/Ole Anderson and...... Paul Roma...WTF... they sucked too)

That Master P faction that WCW tried to create to go against the west Texas rednecks ..

DOA/Los Boricquas(?)- suck

Kai and Tai was funny just for that one segment they told val venis "chopey chopey ur pee pee" and the year they kept running into the rumble and getting thrown out... and bossman threw taka over to hard and made him land on his head... LOL oh memories

 

[The Hillside]

It's the JBL's cabinet from Smackdown 2004 that had JBL, Basham Brothers, Orlando Jordan, Amy Weber and Jilian Hall at its members. The stable did not help anyone in general and all the members in it had almost similar gimmicks and personalities. Jordan was always buried, Basham Brothers never got any kind of value on the promotion, Amy Weber left soon, Jilian was also finished soon. So we had a stable with no funny, interesting or serious gimmicks except for leader JBL who would have been better off as a singles wrestler.

No wonder, Smackdown was boring/dead in 2004-2005 until Edge rescued it.

 

[ヒュー　G.　レックション]

as for the worst of all time it is the main event mafia how did that crap make any sense?

What are you talking about Main Event Mafia was a great stable probably the best stable in TNA history! It's not the best ever but it's nowhere near the worst. You can't say the Corre was better than MEM.