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The Most Useless Tag Team or Stable Ever?

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#1 · (Edited)
So for this week's podcast we're looking for your nominations on the Most Useless Tag Team or Stable you believe you've ever seen in wrestling - from any company at any period of time.

You can pick either a full-time tag team or stable to focus on here, so nice and broad, but we're looking for the general uselessness of the unit, and WHY they get your nod for the most useless there's ever been.

As always the best contributions will be read on the show and you'll be credited accordingly. So who gets your vote for this lofty title?

EDIT - Our show debating the Most Useless Tag Team or Stable Ever, featuring many of your contributions, is now online and available to listen to at the following link: http://squaredcirclegazette.podbean.com/mf/web/rck6cq/SCG_Radio_92_-_The_Most_Useless_Tag_Team_or_Stable_Ever.mp3
 
#3 · (Edited)
The League of Nations

Absolutely useless. Just like the real League of Nations from history!

Four talented guys losing all the time and showing almost zero chemistry with a bland theme song.

Mideon & Viscera.

An incredibly forgettable and mediocre tag team from what was the hottest period in wrestling history ratings wise during the attitude era!
 
#43 ·
I swear I thought the same thing.

Off the top of my head:

The Jim Cornette-led NWA, which I already mentioned

The Varsity Club (1999-200 version)

York Foundation

The First Family (WCW version)

The Desperados (actually, this might be the most useless, as it was three comedic cowboy characters trying to get Stan Hansen to join them and was so bad that Hansen quit WCW and never wrestled in America again)

Southern Justice

Hard Knox (another strong contender for most useless, two geeks managed by Glacier)

Can't remember their name but the stable of actual jobbers that put over other jobbers and were managed by Teddy Long. Two of the members were Joey Maggs and Jim Powers, which should tell you how useless it was.

Lo-Down

The Oddities

And that's just from the year 2000 and before.

Certainly don't see League of Nations being more useless than these 10, especially when compared to the likes of Hard Knox, The Desperados or Teddy Long's stable of jobbers that jobbed to other jobbers.
 
#22 · (Edited)


The Truth Commission. I mean guys....the fucking truth commission. In a time where WCW had something known as NWO going on, and to be fair this is during a time where even the WWE was starting to pick-up in terms of edginess, but yeah, you know what kind of stable is going to be a major hit in this era? A military faction built around....the...hmmm the truth? I mean what the hell was this supposed to be? A vehicle for Kurgan to get over as a monster heel? Why not just have him debut as a solo wrestler with the commdant or just do the Jackyl from the beginning. Just terrible talent involved in this entire thing and I'll stick to my original point with this faction IDEA is totally useless and had no chance of ever taking off.
 
#41 ·
The Dicks?

 
#64 · (Edited)
I never felt any of the stables in the Gang Warz period were useless. With all those different types of factions around, it felt like an episode of Oz, which fit right in with the craziness and edginess of the Attitude Era. You had Militant Blacks, Canadians, White Rebels, Bikers, Puerto Ricans, and South African Paramilitary. While they may not have put on great matches, they had crazy brawls between some of the gangs like DOA, NOD, Los Boricuas and crazy angles like DX vandalising the Nation Of Domination's locker room, spraypainting racist comments on their walls, framing The Hart Foundation for it. I'm in the minority here but I liked Gang Warz.

I have to come to The Oddities' defense here aswell. While everyone hates them by today's standards, back in the Attitude Era, they were over with the fans. More over than most stables in the last 15 years. The Attitude Era was about silly fun and The Oddities were just that. I would take The Oddities over boring non-cartoonish stables like The Cabinet, La Familia, The New Breed and most mid/late-2000 stables & tag teams that weren't named Evolution.
 
#7 · (Edited)
Love your podcast

I have to say, even though I love X-Pac, X-factor

putting two directionless midcarders together to get another past his prime midcarder over in a "Klick" style stable was a terrible idea

It was like when NWO guys were being led by Virgil

Legacy

Cody and Ted lost basically every match that was not a title defense and were destroyed in every fight so Randy could escape making them all look like junk and were so unover that their abusive mentor had to turn face when they broke up

Los Boricuas

Because in a time when everyone was hot I can't remember anyone who was in it but Savio without looking it up, at least DOA's Neo-Nazis were interesting trivia
 
#13 · (Edited)
Love your podcast


Legacy

Cody and Ted lost basically every match that was not a title defense and were destroyed in every fight so Randy could escape making them all look like junk and were so unover that their abusive mentor had to turn face when they broke up
I disagree, I thought they a pretty good team feud with DX (HHH and HBK) and stable fued with the McMahons/Triple H, also they held tag titles so not really useless.

If a tag team or stable had at least 1 title reign or meaningful feud I wouldn't call them "useless"

My choices are 3 Man Band (Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal, and Drew McIntyre), Tons of Funk (Brodus Clay and "Sweet T" Tensai), and the LWO (Latino World Order)
 
#17 · (Edited)
It depends on the definition of "useless". If you mean drawing power, wins, looks, the "it" factor, etc then yeah the Mulkeys were as useless as they come.

If you needed to get a tag team over and needed another tag team for them to have match against that you could guarantee would get squashed in a short amount of time while getting in 0 offense - then the Mulkeys were your men.

My vote for useless goes go.. The Young Stallions
They just seemed like something that Vince threw together because they were both young, muscular and good looking. The kinda thing Vince dreams about..but they went nowhere.
 
#34 ·
Team WCW. For years fans had dreams about how great a WWE-WCW feud would be. When WWE presented it it was an invasion by a bunch of mid-card geeks. It was so bad that WWE added some ECW guys but that only added more mid card geeks to the mix. And the leader of this geek gang was Austin who wasn´t even seen as a WCW guy and who shouldn´t even be a heel.
 
#40 ·
Have to agree with this as a stable, most of the time there is at least one redeeming feature but not in this case for me, and Austin leading the company he was fired from, via phone call and told he would never amount to anything! WTF lol

Tag teams a bit harder but I'm going with Public Enemy and their WWE run, if I remember correctly they got beat up by half the roster a couple of times then vanished. (Although they where ok in other feds)
 
#50 ·
X-Factor. The dreadful Uncle Kracker theme song, X-Pac was pure "X-Pac heat" and so stale it was ridiculous at this point, Justin Credible was OK in ECW but just didn't have it in the WWF. I feel bad for Matt Bloom as I like him, but this was just a dreadful stable all round. Ill-fitting and just absolutely nothing.

Lo-Down were pretty awful too in all honesty, they just did not fit at all, made worse by Tiger Ali Singh coming along who was pure garbage.
 
#53 · (Edited)
The Nasty Boys, The Oddities, The Public Enemy, PMS, The Headbangers, The Mean Street Posse, Lo Down, KroniK, La Resistance, The Super Heroes, The Basham Brothers, Rene Dupree & Kenzo Suzuki, The Gemini, The Dicks, Jesse and Festus, Deuce & Domino, V-Squared, Vince's Devils, The Heart Throbs, The Highlanders, The Spirit Squad, The Mexicools, The New Breed, The Corre, The Bella Twins, The 3MB, Miz and Mizdow, The Funkadactyls, The Golden Truth, The Prime Time Players, The League of Nations, Enzo & Cass.
 
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#75 ·
Jobber stables aren't useless. They keep all your jobbers in one place.

The Dungeon of Doom were basically useless after they stopped showing vignettes inside the actual Dungeon and started adding wrestlers who didn't have strange, bizarre gimmicks.
 
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League Of Nations - For me they were probably one of the most pointless and misused stables of the modern era in the WWE. A group of 4 guys, two of which (Barrett and Rusev) in my opinion are/were very talented performers, in principle they had potential due to their resumes in the WWE but they were presented and booked so poorly that the entire stable was just a flop.

Firstly, and probably the most noticeable problem of them all, was that the stable was formed essentially to be fodder to Roman Reigns, like many have in the past, just because of that, they were pretty much DOA. It was summed up by the fact that they failed to beat Reigns in a handicap match on two occasions, They also suffered because both Sheamus and Del Rio were becoming very stale, and the audience's interest in them was waning away every week. After Sheamus and ADR lost their titles, things just got even worse.

They all became glorified lackeys for the Authority, and the stable as a whole harmed the images of all 4 guys involved, which didn't help someone like Rusev, who had already suffered from being in a horrible feud with Ziggler. They then went on to lose in a feud to the New Day and then split up. After that you could probably look back on their time together and say that they, as a unit, accomplished absolutely nothing (Sheamus and Del Rio won their titles on their own at the time) and offered nothing to the product as a whole apart from being a bunch of guys who Roman could beat up every week.
 
#8 ·
There was something about the way TNA handled Serotonin that didn't help anyone. The booking they received was atrocious. Beating them did not mean anything and losing to them looked like a disaster. Plus, it may have legitimately been the first time a stable was jobbed out in a handicap match while having the advantage. And this was done to set up the explanation for their behaviour. Not to mention who they lost to, Jesus Christ!
 
#11 ·
The Ascension. On the main roster, anyway.

I literally don't remember the last time they won a match :lol Maybe when Stardust was around and they teamed up with him for whatever reason? Otherwise, they're basically the go to team if somebody needs a tag win.
 
#12 ·
Even though I liked certain wrestlers involved in it, I'm gonna say every stable from the Gang Wars storyline besides the Nation of Domination. The Oddities were pretty useless as well.

Tag teams, well....The Heavenly Bodies, Tekno Team 2000, High Voltage, Well Dunn, the New Midnight Express, the New Blackjacks, Rhythm and Blues, American Males...Wow, there were a lot of shitty tag teams through the years. I'm sure if I looked it up I'd find more.
 
#18 ·
I'd love to say League of Nations as the most useless stable as well, it makes sense, but IMO the L.W.O. was truly the worst. They were around for a month, didn't do much but round up a bunch of jobbers, and they quickly got destroyed by the NWO once they were starting to pop up on people's radars.
 
#21 ·
Spirit Squad.
 
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