TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #46: The Spirit Squad

mrken12 · Nov 15, 2018

In the last evaluation, Edge & Christian got a score of 8.49.

TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #45: Edge & Christian

If people have any requests for future tag teams/stables you want to see evaluated, let me know. I'll have one evaluated for each week every Thursday. The leaderboard is updated every 5 threads so it's never too late to vote for previous threads.

For the next thread, it will be The Angle Alliance.

Pending Requests: The Flock/Raven's Nest, Steiner Brothers, The Outsiders, The Acolytes/APA, Evolution, Filthy Animals, Miz and Morrison, New Age Outlaws, Too Cool, Hart Foundation (tag), Hart Foundation (stable), Four Horsemen, Doom, The Usos, Hardy Boyz/Team Extreme, Dungeon of Doom, British Bulldogs, World's Greatest Tag Team, Booker T and Goldust, Billy and Chuck, MNM, The Ministry of Darkness, T & A, The Mega Powers, The Brood, Aces and Eights, The Eliminators, The Magnificent Seven, La Résistance, The Bar, The Nasty Boys

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Time Active: January 2006 - November 2006

Members
Kenny
Mikey
Johnny
Mitch
Nicky (Dolph Ziggler)

Accomplishments During Membership

Compound Pro Wrestling
ComPro Tag Team Championship (1x) – Kenny and Mikey

New York Wrestling Connection
NYWC Tag Team Championship (1x) – Kenny and Mikey

Preston City Wrestling
PCW Tag Team Championship (1x) – Kenny and Mikey

World Wrestling Entertainment
World Tag Team Championship (1x) – Johnny, Kenny, Mikey, Mitch and Nicky

How would you rate The Spirit Squad as a stable using a scale of 1-10 based on these criteria:

-Chemistry
-Impact
-Did the team enhance the profiles of the members and prove beneficial for their career paths?
-Promo Work
-In-Ring Skills

Cheercomp · Nov 15, 2018

Hated the gimmick, but these cats were pretty athletic and could have gone onto do something impactful. They had the pleasure of being stuck in a 1 sided feud that dragged on forever with DX (middle aged DX at that). I'll give them a 4

Cartier Murphy · Nov 15, 2018

Nah but really, they had upside for sure, they were athletic, but... :mjlol:

I liked that move they used to do where they’d each grab a limb and throw their opponent in the air, the best version of it being

Aside from that they were a bunch of mostly generic OVW dudes in a comedy unit who were seemingly designed solely to job to DX, so...4? I guess.

mrken12 · Nov 15, 2018

Cheercomp said:
Hated the gimmick, but these cats were pretty athletic and could have gone onto do something impactful. They had the pleasure of being stuck in a 1 sided feud that dragged on forever with DX (middle aged DX at that). I'll give them a 4

It's a miracle that Dolph was still able to have a respectable career after being a part of this stable.

Conscious Pilot · Nov 15, 2018

Give em a 4

I ain’t gonna lie I low key stanned for Kenny .

Lose your Chance to be a Player in the E over Aunty Mickey :francis:

WalkGawd · Nov 15, 2018

I thought this shyt was a joke when I was a young breh. Looking back, I give em a 5.

Rayzah · Nov 16, 2018

horrible, the only decent thing that came from this roup was Dolph and he aint necessarily a top guy yet, so that gets them a 1

2CT · Nov 16, 2018

a group of male cheerleaders :mjlol:

shyt was almost Eugene levels of bad

nikkas get a 2 :ufdup:

Dolph's career would probably be better off if he didn't start with this

Starboy52 · Nov 16, 2018

The only thing worse then how they did my breh Kenny is how they did my OVW GOAT, Nick Dinsmore, by sticking him with that fukking Eugene gimmick. :snoop:

Same with how they did Ironman GOAT Conway...

Same with how they did "The Ripper" Paul Burchell (AKA: the bluprint to their devious/ruthless heel character gimmick over the last 12 years), even AFTER he got crazy over with a Pirates gimmick.

4.

mrken12 · Nov 16, 2018

El Guapo · Nov 16, 2018

These guys sucked! They had to change Dolph's name to an awful name like Dolph to get away from the stench of that gimmick and hope people didn't remember he was in it.

Would get a 1, but them coming back as Miz's lackeys for a couple weeks during his feud with Ziggler was entertaining, so I'll bump it up to 2.

stro · Nov 16, 2018

I don't remember much of their matches to judge them as talent, but the time they threw HBK in the air what seemed like 20 feet is one of the more memorable moments of that death era

KatieGotAzzHairs · Nov 16, 2018

Ooooooooh I'm heated, brehs. HEATED AT WHAT BECOME OF THESE PPL!

Johnny Jeter formed a fantastic babyface pairing with Matt Cappotelli in OVW. Hardyz like in a way. They would have had to add an edge to their act on the main roster, but they were broken up in OVW and Cap fell ill sadly.

But Jeter as a heel in OVW was quite good in his role as chicken shyt ducking and dodging coward. He would make grand proclamations, get in deep shyt, have to be bailed out by the likes of Mister Kennedy or Daniel Puder (I think) then gloat like he had it in hand all along. It was quite entertaining and from a storytelling standpoint satisfying to see him get his come uppance. In the ring he was one of the better workers they had. Better than CM Punk!

Kenny Doane was as every one can probably guess booked like a blue chipper hot shot Wrestlemania maineventer in waiting. I thought he did very well as a cocky prick with an inflated and unearned sense of self worth. Actually he excelled in it, and had a good supporting cast of Kenny Bolin, a kind of hot valet named Sosay, Mikey(Mondo) this pyschopath named Dean Vhisk (sp) and Bobby Lashley. Basically he would lord over his subordinates who would enable his self centered view of the world. His wrestling was pretty good for someone so young. And like Jeter he was better than Punk was in OVW.

Ken also had a good foil in the serious about wrestling Brent Albright and even Punk.

Mikey aka Mikey Mondo was probably too small to get any serious burn in 2005-2006 WWE. But he brought a pretty good act to those OVW as a creepy, annoying, loud mouth heel. Kind of like a smaller Hardcore Holly when he was doing the super heavyweight gimmick. But also played up as a bit of a pervert.

Don't remember Nick Mitchell and don't remember Dolph doing much before SS.

Now I should note this was all Heyman booked OVW which IMO was the best show in the 00's post 2000.

WWE pissed away a lot of OVW talent. Like why did they even sign these people?

Reality Check · Nov 16, 2018

1. That era in WWE sucked as a whole, and this was legitimately the only memorable part of their career as a stable

Mr. Manhattan · Nov 16, 2018

Complete garbage 1/10

TSC Tag Teams/Stables Evaluation #46: The Spirit Squad

Overall Rating

1 (Awful)

2

3

4

5 (Average)

6

7

8

9

10 (Legendary)

Veteran

Pro

Apathy’s a Tragedy & Boredom is a Crime

Veteran

Do Better.

Pro

I'm Everywhere you ain't never there

Prolific Poster

Superstar

Veteran

Superstar

Superstar

Banned

Keepin' it 100

Superstar