Or Christopher Daniels coming dressed as The Higher Power at Revolution 2020 a gimmick he almost portrayed in WWE

Mark

This is my first time seeing "The Dork Order". They earned their nickname.

Alex Reynolds might be the most overlooked member of Dark Order. He doesn't have the personality of his tag partner, but holy crap that dude can wrestle.

@@SebastianMikulec He's mostly known for training some guys.

I loved his Free Agent angle and later tag team title run with Rhyno in 2016

Weeeeelllllllll…..

I met him at WWE axccess, he was nice and all, but nothing like that lol

I have no clue how he had time to talk to you…… he’s got kids!!!!!!!!

Way before they had the FCW arena in Tampa, they used to run shows weekly at a dive bar in Port Richey, FL. I went every week and got see Sheamus, Nattie, The Bellas, Dolph Ziggler and Heath Slater all before they were called up. Anyways, Heath was the nicest dude there I'm glad he didnt change.

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

Calling Fastlane a B-tier is pretty generous frankly

@@dinofacedindividual9462 😂😂😂

One of if not the worst stable ever

Despite you clearly writing “League of Nations” I read it as “Nation of Domination” and made myself very confused. 😅🤦🏾‍♀️

Daveyboy11, that might've saved Kevin's career.

@@missmoanypants I mean owen Hart was in it and he was Canadian too 😩😩some Canadians are super woke

Did he catch it when visiting Terry Funk's horse?

I loved Sheamus, Barrett, and Rusev as a trio of brawling euro badasses. KO’s style would have been a way better fit with them than Del Rio. But if the booking is crap everyone suffers.

LOL, right, I think some of them had bronze spoons in their mouth instead of silver.

Especially Willie Green 🤣

Theme song was cool

Someone has to pay, everday!

Is that next to Deepest, Darkest Africa?

LOL, to be fair, this was 94-95 in WWF...almost everything was bad. The issue, which the NWO found out is that for whatever reason, Ted Dibiase is not a good manager. On paper, he has everything needed(credibility, mic skills, a knowledge of how to get over) but it has never worked. He was amazing at getting his character over but for whatever reason, couldn't get other's over as a manager(he was great at getting his opponent's over as a wrestler)

Dibiase tried to be like bobby the brain from how great he was at managing and it never worked

Well tbf all were past their prime. Even most thought Austin was after the Hollywood Blondes.

Certified New Generation Moment

The MDC was nWo before nWo.

I’m so happy someone else remembers that 😂

W

I like Cody but I do think he thinks he is better than he actually is. He is a solid upper mid carder who is occasionally great on the mic and in the ring. He's got a good look(despite they awful tattoo) but he just reminds me so much of Jeff Jarrett except he was never allowed to push himself to the moon. WWE is a good fit for him right now but he'll be back in AEW within a few years, which is fine. They could really take advantage of fan's legit hatred for Brandi Rhodes and really lean into it. WWE might do that in the coming years.

it's actually TK saying " yeah i like goofy stuff(i even signed Orange Cassidy) but THIS is WACK"

@@mattm7798 like it or not, cody is a top 3-5 guy in the industry right now. He's definitely not a mid card guy. Just because he hurt your little aew fanboy fee fees doesn't mean he's not a main event guy.

@@mattm7798 I wouldn't call Cody a mid card guy. He never fit as one imo he was always too good to not get the push.

@@mattm7798if fans like you had their way guys like Jeff jarrett, triple h, John cena, the miz, Roman reigns, Christian, randy orton, aj styles, DDP, ect ect would’ve never gotten in the main event of their companies where they rightfully deserved for a variety of reasons like “oh triple h/Jeff Jarrett is only good in his own mind” despite getting the biggest pops or boos of the night depending on face of heel, or “AJ Styles is too small, he isn’t believable in the main event, he should stay in the X division.” Or “DDP is too old to be put in the main event at 35, he’s only world champion because he’s Eric bischoffs friend.” Despite being the obvious people’s choice.

But we all know how Vince feels about unions.

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick true, but he could've gotten some decent mileage out of them. They had some really good talkers in the crew(Foley and The Rock specifically) and would have made an interesting Face Faction (which is rare as Hen's Teeth in wrestling, even today)...

Union of People You Oughta Respect Son

@@RGF91 that was nicely done and would've fit perfectly into that Era of Wrestling, especially if it was said by The Rock during a promo...

That's a direct Foley quote from the UPYORS era

Presumably, that was the joke.

@@jliller Not to Corny.

@@gaylordfocker7990 Cornette was undoubtedly trying to be earnest about it, but Vince McMahon probably saw it as yet another way to mock his competition.

WWE has tried invasion angles so many times and failed spectacularly virtually every time. They actually got the Nexus right at first, only to quickly ruin that angle. Even Aces & 8s wound up having a better run than any invasion force in WWE.

Lol

Indeed the Oddities definitely belong on this compilation. Though they were at least over to an extent due in part to the ICP tie in.

Well to be fair, most people can’t handle these oddities.

Yeah, but you gotta hand it to any group that has both Earthquake in a mask talking to a Cartman doll, and George "The Animal" Steele. Just for the sheer...well, oddity of it all...

He also missed 3 count. Shane Helms, Shannon (Jeff Hardys stoner friend) Moore, Evan Courageous and Tank Abbott as their manager

@@irishpanic Not sure if they really qualify - they had a run with the WCW tag titles and a pretty damn good feud with the Yung Dragons, including a couple of hellacious ladder matches. Tank was more their groupie than a manager, squealing like a little girl like they were a real boy band.

It was Funaki with Akio and Sakoda, I remember because I had the action figure box set lol

Ok so A. you were right about Tajiri, I guess they just wanted to slap three Japanese guys in a set and figured no one would notice and B. by confirming on Wikipedia I’m just finding out Sakoda is dead

@@kristophermarconi3169 Well I'm learning today that they even got a figure box set made which is far more than I would have ever guessed.

I remember them from SmackDown but don't recall them having an official name. I was actually at the SmackDown taping before the 2004 Rumble, where Bradshaw beat Akio and Sakoda in a short Triple Threat to earn a spot in the Royal Rumble match.

@@quentinkaasa47 I think their name might’ve been used on Velocity during tags with Akio & Sakoda. Tajiri told WWE to axe the gimmick as originally planned because he didn’t want to anger the Yakuza back home in Japan by doing something they could’ve viewed as a mockery.

Was taker in the ministry of darkness and Austin was in two man power trip?

@@fc775 Afterwards yes, but not during it..

At least DX vs Nation was worth it well except for the blackface

Faction wars? They literally called them gang wars on the programming....

Brian bringing up the New Japan model raises a great point though. WWE didn't seem really that invested in most of their factions, but if they gave them legitimate pushes and good booking to try to get them over, instead of throwing them out to see what sticks, the whole thing might have been entertaining, and even lasted for a few years. If you think about how New Japan successfully booked longtime stables like Bullet Club and Suzuki-Gun, but also dodgier ones like Taguchi Japan. It speaks to how their bookers figured out they could keep those stables permanently to keep feuds between different wrestlers interesting. We could have had that in Attitude era WWE, if the two Vinces saw what they had at the time. As Jim Ross has explained, the way WWE sees stables is a testing ground for who they will assign as main eventer, best example of that being no less than The Rock.

They at least werent jobbers in NXT

@@ZomBkiller115 definitely not. They were the dominant heel faction before Undisputed Era came along

they had a gimmick of psychotic anarchists the kind of factions that works better in a non PG program but it worked on NXT. I guess it's all about the booking

Miz effortlessly destroying all of Sanity on his own was a far worse burial than Roman solo'ing the League of Nations. At least in the latter case, they got wrecked by Roman Reigns.

They were known as Black and White. Cause when the nWo reformed, the tiers were the Elite, who wore Wolfpac colors, and the Black and White, who consisted of illustrious members like Stevie Ray, Horace Hogan, Vincent, Scott Norton, and Brian Adams.

Really...for some reason I thought I remembered them actually being called that either on commentary or within a promo.

Commentary def called them the B team all the time

@@thomasferraro479 I thought so! By the the NWO moniker meant almost nothing as being a part of it was kind of like old hat. Oh the wasted opportunities of WCW.

@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 Ray was never meant for great singles matches, and the end of Harlem Heat was the death note for his career. Horace and Vincent were only in the company because the Hulkster could apparently put anybody he wanted on payroll. However, I always felt that Norton an Adams were never booked properly in WCW. Norton really should have been billed as a top monster heel. If you want to see the best example of this try to find the Nitro where he beats the living shit out of Ernest Miller. Unfortunately, his early days in the company were spent in the shadow of Vader, and after Vader left the shadow of Hogan. I honestly have no idea why WCW even bothered hiring Adams. They never knew what to do with him, and in fairness he's not the most charismatic wrestler, but he was a solid worker. Had they just paired him up with someone skilled on the mic they could have had a popular tag team, and no Chronic doesn't count. I loved Brian Clark, but he worked best as a singles wrestler. Maybe they could have made a team up with him and Goldberg into something, but even that feels like a stretch.

LoN just didn't gel. There was 0 chemistry with them. The Nexus I agree with until Cena thought the right idea was to beat them in their first match of the feud...and somehow Vince agreed....nothing like getting beat to elevate a group.

I unironically LOVED the Dungeon of Doom. Those segments with pre-nWo Hogan were some of the most hilariously cheesy things ever. *chef kiss*

You mean that jerk who left Rick Martel?

He needs a new intro song though. That hip hop thing is awful

@@michaelkeller5927 Right! Ugh, just awful.

The match/segments between The Shield and 3MB were incredible.

@@MartinMorrow They were great.

3mb were a job stable for sure but they were great. They were charismatic and funny, and the ladder is something wwe rarely was at the time(they aren't funny much now either but you get my point). Obviously everyone has sense realized how great Drew is and most understand how charismatic and good on the mic Mr. I got kids is. I also think jinder is solid and makes work whatever is given to him. I even think he pulled off the random overpushed wwe title run they gave him work to an extent at least.

one of my favorite bits was Drew going to the Spanish announce table and yelling at them to speak American.

So that's what happened to Josh Bredl?

@@ottagol1985 he should tag team with Andy Leavine 😂

The fact that there is a pyramid in Memphis just adds another layer of weird to the whole thing.

Good point. I think the fact it had a very good character at it's helm and some good talent in it kept it from being a jobber stable. The issue is the group itself was never really presented as a credible threat. Raven's Flock in ECW was a much better incarnation and the less said about the TNA version the better.

@@mattm7798 And even then, the ECW Nest was mostly just red shirts. Sure they were good for comedy skits, but Stevie, Meanie, and Nova were usually on the losing end of things.

@@mattm7798 Three letters help explain why it didn't work in WCW. N W O

I always thought the flock & all it’s incarnations were a jab at Raven himself by the bookers, king of the losers.

That was sort of the point though. Raven basically collected losers, the guys on the fringe of society and the idea was Raven would get heat by being untouchable and hardly even doing anything while whoever Raven feuds with can look good by battering his goons. I guess it was a job squad but it was primarily a vehicle for Raven. I think in shoots Raven said it turned into him getting paid to do next to no work.

After the Gang Wars I thought he was going to mention Oddities lol

If there was a faction using ICP as their theme song I figured it should be one based around Doink. The Doink Posse.

And Butcher and the Blade. Well, if they had any momentum.

They got lost in the shuffle in a very loaded tag division. They got further lost when they joined HFO. Hopefully they can get back on track.

They never had momentum to begin with. They were the peak jobbers in AEW.

Del Rio is like that one kid you don't pick for kick ball because they end up being a cocky ahole who sucks

They all joined at the same time

@@henrygiles8803 sheanus, Rusev, and Barrett were teaming for a month or two before del Rio was added in and they became the League of Nations.

Honestly, I'm thinking about putting the Hardy Family Office and the Million Dollar Corporation on that monument.

Don’t forget the Misfits in action or world elite.

@@Celticgamer89 also just remembered the Stud Stable

Also Aces ♠️& 🎱Eights from Tna

Which Team Canada? The original version with Bobby Roode, Eric Young, Petey Williams, and Johnny Devine was stellar, and even adding useless lump A-1 didn't bring it down too much.

@@saneiac WCW team canada

He definitely had potential but felt like he needed just the right creative person pushing for him long term and he never had that.

Great theme song

What's weird about Dallas is that, if you think back, he never really performed badly in any of the roles they gave him to play. He was great in NXT; he was good as a comedy character when he got called up; he was great as Miz's bodyguard; he was great as part as the B Team. You'd think Creative would pick up on that.

The greatest? he's like the last one that I can remember 🤣

I loved the J.O.B Squad. Granted I was a dumb Smark back then and thought it was cool that they were using insider terminology like that. And if a group tried that in A.E.W today I would be pissing myself, but, I digress.

@@dbone3356 AEW did use a Ghostbusters entrance so that doesn't seem impossible

@@claytonrios1 Please. Don't remind me. And I liked Adam Cole *Bay-Bay*

They definitely do. Besides The Giant I wouldn't say they were top of the card. They were made to put Hogan over.

I think we can call them a jobber (for the stars) stable

Given they were feuding with the top guy in the company, technically they weren't a jobber group. As a 5th grader at the time, I thought they were pretty cool but looking back, oh man were they terrible.

They sure as hell jobbed for Hogan, brother!!!!!

Well slater did win the first smackdown tag titles if that means anything lol

@@YvngSinatra860 It means as much as Finn Balor winning the first Universal Title. And that's not a shot at Finn, it pisses me off to have to write that.

@@dbone3356 The storyline of Slater hunt to win the tag titles was very good. Its super over. Finn, not so much.

And now they are all jacked

@@YvngSinatra860 Yeah, Slater has won tag team championships, but never the gold.

I'm here

I wasn't cause 2 of the 3 members didn't fit the gimmick.

Aay me 😬😅

Look at it this way; at least you got some fond memories out of it, and that's worth more than all the Tea in England...

@@johnnysizemore5797 Very true and good perspective.

Mace looked cool in Retribution gear

It was like they spent the whole year building up to a Survivor Series card where the best gang would be declared the winner of the warz, and then didn't book it

Well 1997 introduced the Titan Tron and a 2nd hour of Raw in a time slot that allowed more adult angles. But the WWF was still mostly wrestling based through most of 97/98, although constantly pushing the envelope with gritty, reality based content nobody had ever seen on a national stage before. The WWF had not gone public, no board of directors to answer to, and any controversy just gave them free publicity at a crucial time. At the beginning of 1999, what we called "crash TV" (Russo style booking) really took off. You basically had two competing promotions hot-shotting their territory trying to put each other out of business. Except that "territory" was all of North America or maybe the entire planet, so the aftermath of that is what we are left with today.

Now they're nowhere to be found or at the very least missing members.

It's still legitimately embarrassing. Right up where with retribution.

@@johanneazcuy9997 agreed with Brodie lee is was okay and it was nice they added his son and stuff and were treated fairly but sorry aligning adam page with them did him no favors.

@@turboturkey agreed. That's a death slot.

I mean United Kingdom had William Regal.

It worked in the game because there's no continuity by The way TNA had a stable called The World Elite with foreign wrestlers with Eric Young as the leader.

It could have been so great honestly...not long after when DOA and Los Boricuas were less relevant and the Nation had evolved their feud with DX was a better execution of a gang war in terms of the feud itself

The problem was that none of the Boricuas or DOA had any talent or charisma.

@@SteRDLK I said a gang wars type story, i didn't mean that it had to exactly be the same people involved.

@@anijeepa So, to make it a success, who would have been in a "gang wars type story" in 1997 if not the people actually booked to be in gangs? Because even with The Rock, Farooq, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, British Bulldog, Triple H and Shawn Michaels involved, it was still crap for the most part.

@@SteRDLK I never mentioned 1997.

RTC can't be included because they won a lot, up until the group ended the aftermath of Mania X7, they were protected fairly well.

Right to censor won quite a lot (usually by cheating but still) and held a few titles. Lots of wrestlers these days would like to get cheered to the level the oddities did (mainly cause of their entrance and wrestling being ridiculously popular in general).

@@LongLiveRockAnRoll He should've added judgement day because they're dead to rights after they kicked Edge out of the group and replaced him with Finn Balor.

The Social Outcasts were great

At least it gave The Ascension something to do

I actually liked The Cosmic Wasteland

I always liked Kenny Dykstra

The stable with 20+ people in it. Awesome stuff

Unironically love Paul Jones Army, his promos were mental, send me into hysterics.

Huh?

They didn't wrestle so they didn't job. Meat sure did though.

Sanity deserve better than that.

I remember feeling so bad for Drew. IIRC he had a fight with Taryn Tyrell(real life GF/fiancee?) and his push pretty much died. Really happy he refreshed himself outside WWE and came back and was able to get the push he deserved.

At least 3MB gave us "THE CLAYMORE!!!". (true story)

I feel bad for retribution so hard

Thank god

Aces and Eights were huge at the time. Not sarcasm. They were around at a time when I had taken a break from wrestling and I still heard about their exploits every day at work. Having said that... The nWo would definitely need to be on that list. At least as an honourable mention. "Only to be ruined when there were too many members." They were supposed to be an elite faction (no pun intended) and they ended up watered down with a bunch of jobbers. I mean, I get that their thing was to take over, and either you were with them or against them, but... It's hard to take them seriously when they have Vincent, Horace Hogan, Stevie Ray and Scott Norton. Yes, I know Scott Norton was apparently a big deal in Japan. And a legit badass outside of the ring. But that means nothing to the average person watching WCW at the time.

yea i wouldnt say aces and eights would even be bottom 30. They had people hooked for months to a year at least

@@memeteam8274 Definitely. Lots of factions that would need to go in before Aces and Eights. D.O.A, Los Boricuas (or as I called them Lost Burritos) The Truth Commission, The Oddities That's 4 without even trying. And I loved John Tenta, putting him on a list of worst anything upsets me. But Golga was trash. Also, I didn't put the Meanstreet Posse on there for the same reason I didn't put Team Canada (WCW) on there. Sure, the Posse sucked, but they were great for comedic relief. Shane was super over at the time and it was entertaining watching his minions get wrecked. A lot of people hated Team Canada, but they were great. And I will die on that hill. Lance Storm winning all the titles and renaming them was gold. Mike Awesome was, well awesome and it was a lot better than being That 70s Guy or The Fat Chick Thriller. Elix Skipper had tons of potential. He legit had the ability to be something one day if given the opportunity. I thought the exact same thing about a young A.J Styles at the time as well. And Hacksaw... Well, yeah, I know he didn't belong there, because of the American gimmick, though that's what made it work, in storyline. And I know he was past his prime, but I have such a huge soft spot for him.

BWO as well lol

They weren't jobbers tho.

Except Tony Khan actually did offer contract renewals for some those guys but they choose to not renew them.

BTE (particularly John Silver), Brodie and Hangman helped put DO over huge (though the latter also helped Hangman too), but after Brodie's passing and once the Hangman storyline finished they had much less to work with. Not to mention right now two members left AEW, one is inactive (Colt, who hasn't shown up for months, I assume due to him and Punk being at odds or at least until ROH gets back off the ground and give him a manager role or something) and given how big the roster is they're not getting any slot anytime outside Dark/Elevation.

Misfits in Action...they probably didn't make the cut since it started with the infamous, "Don't call me by the name they gave me, call me by my real name...Hugh G. Rection" promo.

Sam Beale was hilarious as Brian’s protégé

I loved The Learning Tree