On of the elements of pro wrestling I was always interested in was stables. There are the obvious favorites (The Four Horseman, NWO, and Heenan Family) but some were great to me off potential albeit realized or not. Please allow me to list my top 5 Wrestling stables.
The Dangerous Alliance
The Living Legend Larry Zbyszko, Beautiful Bobby Eaton, Ravishing Rick Rude, Paul E Dangerously, The Enforcer Arn Anderson, Stunning Steve Austin, and Madusa
All these dudes were tremendous talent, and Paul E's schtick with the cell phone was so captivating to me at the time. The seemed to be running shit in 91' & 92. I don't recall any major feuds with the whole alliance but I do remember a War Games match with them. I don't think I have seen that since the event itself, so yeah imma need WWE to get on that WAR GAMES DVD / BluRay pronto! Anyways I do remember Rick Rude always bringing it to Sting. I even got to see a house show in 92 that was headlined by a Sting v Rude steel cage match. Yes it was awesome (so I remember). Overall I wish they could of had a more impactful angle, but they were quite the force of top level talent.
Natural Born Thrillers
Johnny The Bull, Mike Sanders, Reno, Chuck Palumbo, Mark Jindtrak, Sean O'Haire, and Sean Stasiak
Ok, so the dying days of WCW were notoriously bad. Just about every storyline was dogshit, and confused the fuck out of everyone watching. Hell it even turned me from loyal viewer to casual viewer. The one thing that I did like was The Natural Born Thrillers. This was kinda like an early Nexus the big difference was Mike Sanders could cut a good promo. Ok let me come clean tho, when I went to add them to the list I totally forgot who Reno was. So yeah this is a group I liked for their potential not really their accomplishments. WWE gave the big dudes a shot when the bought WCW, but I would of liked to see Mike Sanders playing a similar role in WWE.
The Nation of Domination
Faarooq, Clarence Mason, PG-13, Crush, D'Lo Brown, Savio Vega, Kama Mustafa, Ahmed Johnson, The Rock,Mark Henry, Owen Hart
If just by description the WWF's Nation of Islam meets Black Panther stable should of been a disaster, but those involved made it one of the best of all time. Sure the Nation had it's rivals and that came off boarderline tasteless in what came off more as a race war, but the real beauty of the NOD was the inner workings itself. Faarooq was a great powerful leader but it was his opposition as leader that let The Rock develop to the mega personality he became.
The Dudley Boys
Buh Buh Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, Big Dick Dudley, Dudley Dudley, Spike Dudley, Sign Guy Dudley, Joel Gertner, and many many more.
A fun act that developed to one of the best shticks of all time. Each individual was great in their role for what it was. Joel Gertner was one of my favorite managers of all time. Little Spike Dudley was a GREAT character and no one can deny the all time great tag team status of Buh Buh and D-Von.
The Radicalz
WCW idiocy led to arguably the fore most proficient wrestlers at the time to be so fed up they got a release and headed to WWE in arguably the biggest acquisition in the most competitive time in current wrestling history. If you don't know these guys just leave now. Their force in the WWF instantly made them more credible in WWF than they were with titles in WCW. They arguably reached their greatest success with this move, and whoulda thunk some vanilla midgets could be so revered.
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