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* [=MNM=]: Johnny Nitro became John Morrison, won the ECW Title, joined another succesful tag team, and is currently a upper-midcarder on [=SmackDown=] being primed for the big time. Joey Mercury... had a few spots for {{ROH}}. Even their valet Melina did better than Mercury, wining the Women's Title on a couple of occasions.
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*** And now, with John Morrison being moved to Raw, he and the Miz have had their successes, and as of July 18, The Miz has risen to stardom by winning the Raw Money in the Bank Ladder match at the MITB PPV, not only beating six other superstars, three being Main Eventers, but also John Morrison himself...did I forget to mention that Morrison has now lost five matches to the Miz in the last year?
*** Everything has come full circle with The Miz winning the WWE title
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*** Everything has **** It seemed that everything had come full circle with The Miz winning the WWE titletitle after cashing in the Money in the Bank contract against RandyOrton the RAW after Survivor Series. However, the trope is temporarily back in subverted status after Morrison started a feud with Sheamus and beat him ''twice'', the second time in a #1 Contender's Ladder's Match at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2010, which means come [[RoyalRumble Royal Rumble 2011]], the two will face off in a match that determines who headlines [[WrestleMania WrestleMania XVII]] as the champion.
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* The Pozo-Seco Singers were a Texas country-folk trio with a couple of minor hits in the 1960's. After they broke up, group member Don Williams embarked on a solo career. "The Gentle Giant" would notch over 50 hits on the Country Music charts, with 17 of them hitting #1.
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** It should be noted that this was not intended to happen to Marty Jannetty, as both men were considered about equal in terms of charisma and in-ring skill at the time of the breakup. Unfortunately, Jannetty's partying lifestyle constantly got the better of him, and he gradually faded into obscurity.
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*** Everything has come full circle with The Miz winning the WWE title
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*** [[IncrediblyLamePun I thought Steel was the ace of the group.]]
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* The Japanese comedy duo Honjamaka originally started as a troupe of about 10 or 11 comedians, but they only became famous after everybody left except the current two members (Ishizuka Hidehiko and Megumi Toshiaki). On top of that, they both have strong individual careers.
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** While Rusty is a loser by anyone's standards, a 4th season episode revealed that he's actually a success compared to many of his fellow boy adventurers. JohnyQuest is a drug addict, the HardyBoys equivalents probably murdered their dad, the [[{{Batman}} Robin]] knockoff is a compulsive eater who does mall openings, and the AstroBoy {{Expy}} has severe anger issues. Rusty on the other hand may be struggling for cash and cross the MoralEventHorizon every now and again, but he's still reasonably well known, has kids of his own, an atomic powered jet, a large compound to call home, and much less need for therapy than his peers.
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* Averted with The Acolytes/APA, as Ron Simmons (AKA Faarooq) was already the WCW Champion. However, after the APA's second breakup in 2004, Bradshaw reinvented himself as the CorruptCorporateExecutive John "Bradshaw" Layfield, when he held the WWE title for almost a year.
* Averted with The Acolytes/APA, as Ron Simmons (AKA Faarooq) was already the WCW Champion. However, after the APA's second breakup in 2004, Bradshaw reinvented himself as the CorruptCorporateExecutive John "Bradshaw" Layfield, when he held the WWE title for almost a year.
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* The Rockers - Pictured above. ShawnMichaels is a huge star, Marty Jannetty hasn't been relevant in years, except as the guy that the left-behind tag-team member is always compared to. Strangely, Jannetty's status as the Jannetty has reached the point where on his occasional reappearances he's massively over.
* The Hart Foundation - OK, this team had BretHart, who went on to become a multiple-time world champion and hall of famer, and... Who? [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Exactly]].
** At least Niedhart got inducted in the Hall of Fame.
* Edge & Christian - {{Edge}} has had three times the amount of World titles {{Christian}} has, and in a bigger company at that.
** Although it's safe to say that both were much more successful than Gangrel, who was the leader of the stable they were originally on, the Brood.
* The Hardy Boyz - JeffHardy was {{WWE}} Champion while Matt had the {{ECW}} Championship which is relatively meaningless in comparison.
** Earlier in the decade it looked like Matt was the one who would become the breakout star, as he started the immensely popular Version One character while Jeff got fired. But then the Matt/Edge/Lita debacle happened and Matt's career got completely derailed, and Jeff redeemed himself. Long enough to win a World Title at least.
** Lita started out in WWE as the valet for Essa Rios. Her popularity immediately eclipsed his, and she went on to be a multi-time Womens Champion and participated in some major angles as a valet first for Matt Hardy and then Edge. Rios, on the other hand, was demoted to the point where it was a running joke how rarely he was used, before he got released. He can currently be found midcarding in Mexico as Mr. Aguila.
* The Radicalz: EddieGuerrero, ChrisBenoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn. We all know what happened to the former two, and for the wrong reasons.
* [[strike:[[StoneColdSteveAustin Stone Cold]]]] [[StoneColdSteveAustin Stunning Steve Austin]] and Brian Pillman of the Hollywood Blondes. Austin became six time {{WWE}} champion and the only man to win the Royal Rumble [[RuleOfThree thrice]].
** To be fair, the main reason for this was Pillman's untimely death at age 35. At the time, both Pillman and Austin were both very over high mid-carders (Austin being only a few months into developing the foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, [[AntiHero anti-hero]] we know him as today). In fact, Pillman's death came [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at the beginning stages of a feud between the two]].
* The Thrillseekers: ChrisJericho and Lance Storm. Guess who's more successful and popular...
* America's Most Wanted - One would go on to form an even greater tag team known as [[MemeticMutation BEER! MONEY!]] The other was [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Braden Walker.]]
* Degeneration-X - Not a total example as Shawn Michaels was already a big star when the group started, but of the other members of the group only TripleH discovered any real longterm success.
** The others were less successful due to backstage incidents and cases of SmallNameBigEgo. Oh, and one became so unpopular he became the TropeNamer for XPacHeat.
* During the last days of WCW, AJ Styles was half of a tag team with a guy named Air Paris. Styles is a multi-time champion in TNA. Paris is currently the booker for the tiny independent promotion NAWA Ring Champions.
* The Steiner Brothers: ScottSteiner (''[[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} HUH?]]'') became a {{WCW}} Champion in 2000 (''[[VerbalTic HUH?]]'') and worked in the WWE (''HUH?'') and in {{TNA}} (''HUH?''), while Rick (''HUH?'') is currently (''HUH?'') in a local school board (''HUH?'').
** "I'M HUNGRY!"
** Ironically, before the split, the Steiner Brothers were generally thought of as "Rick Steiner and his less-interesting brother". Then Scotty put on 100 pounds of muscle, bleached his hair, and reinvented himself as a KavorkaMan with "freaks" in every city. Rick, on the other hand, floundered about in the upper midcard and then turned heel. Although he was a pretty good face, as a heel he was a complete heat vacuum.
* Harlem Heat: Booker T becomes a six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time World Heavyweight Champion, and who knows what Stevie Ray is doing currently. (Working for Booker at his wrestling school, actually).
* The Second City Saints: {{CM Punk}} is a former World Champion, Colt Cabana (aka Scotty Goldman) recently got released from {{WWE}} after a brief run as a {{jobber}}. Oh, and did you know there's a third Second City Saint named Ace Steel?
** But to be fair, from the moment the three became the Second City Saints in RoH, Punk was ''always'' the ace of the group so YourMileageMayVary on whether this counts or not.
* [=MNM=]: Johnny Nitro became John Morrison, won the ECW Title, joined another succesful tag team, and is currently a upper-midcarder on [=SmackDown=] being primed for the big time. Joey Mercury... had a few spots for {{ROH}}. Even their valet Melina did better than Mercury, wining the Women's Title on a couple of occasions.
** Strangely, subverted with Morrison's tag team with The Miz -- ''everyone'' figured Miz would be lost in the midcard on Raw after the tandem broke up while Morrison moved on to bigger and better things on [=SmackDown=], but as of this writing both have firmly established themselves as on par with the top guys of their brands. They even lampshaded it when, before Bragging Rights and a scheduled Morrison vs. Miz match, the two cut dueling promos trying to declare the other one the Janetty of their team.
*** And now, with John Morrison being moved to Raw, he and the Miz have had their successes, and as of July 18, The Miz has risen to stardom by winning the Raw Money in the Bank Ladder match at the MITB PPV, not only beating six other superstars, three being Main Eventers, but also John Morrison himself...did I forget to mention that Morrison has now lost five matches to the Miz in the last year?
* WCW had Three Count, a boy band stable consisting of Evan Karagias, Shannon Moore and Shane Helms. Of the three, Helms has had a moderately successful WWE career as The Hurricane and as Gregory Helms, Moore has had a WWE career but been primarily a jobber, and Karaigas hasn't done anything. Although, Helms' status of BreakupBreakout came during his WCW days, when he started using the Vertebreaker as his finisher and was given an elaborate entrance and custom theme song.
* This has happened with Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder as the latter has been established as a hot new heel on ECW with his memorable {{catchphrase}} and [[EarWorm theme music]], while the former has since completely disappeared from WWE television and returned to a developmental territory.
** Subverted now that Curt Hawkins is back on Smackdown teaming with another former ECW Star in Vance Archer.
* Even if he had moderate success, Billy Gunn hit superstardom in comparison to what happened to Bart Gunn from The Smoking Gunns. He also outlived Road Dogg in the WWE even if they later reunited in TNA.
* In a "rivals" version of this, {{Rey Mysterio Jr}}. and Psicosis. They debuted together, feuded all through Mexico, Japan, ECW, WCW... then 2001ish WCW released all their Luchadors except for Mysterio (and Juventud Guererra). Mysterio later got scooped up by WWE and eventually became a World Champion. Psicosis, on the other hand, got a short WWE run and nothing to show for it. When they met in a Royal Rumble, Mysterio just kinda backhanded Psicosis out of the ring. Mysterio's still a major superstar. Psicosis isn't as big in his native Mexico as Mysterio is in the US.
* And of course probably the biggest example would be [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]], who was once part of the Nation of Domination, before rising to new heights which ultimately led him to Hollywood.
* The World's Greatest Tag Team: Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. After the team split up Shelton got three consecutive victories over Triple H, became a three time Intercontinental champion, a former United States Champion and is the highlight of Money in the Bank match in every Wrestlemania. Charlie Haas was primary used as a jobber-to-the-stars and occasionally part of an unsuccessful make-shift tag team. He was even released and re-hired a couple times before being released (so far) for good in 2010.
** A strange subversion here in that the WGTT actually has more drawing power than either Haas or Benjamin separately. Now that Benjamin has also been released from WWE, there's a lot of hope that the team will reunite.
*** Which they did, in RingOfHonor. AndTheFandomRejoiced.
* Not to say that Chuck Palumbo has had an extraordinarily successful career, but he's had a better one than that of his tag partner in The Perfect Event, Shawn Stasiak. Palumbo had a good run as WWE Tag Team Champion with Billy Gunn, and was part of the Voodoo Murders stable in AJPW. Stasiak got to play a gimmick where he was deliberately clumsy, and now works as a chiropractor.
* DragonGate had a stable called the Royal Brothers, with Anthony W. Mori, Henry III Suguwara, and Phillip J. Fukamasa. Fukamasa barely lasted an entire year, leaving Mori and Suguwara a tag team. Then Suguwara turned heel on Mori (and started using his real name Takuya Suguwara). Mori won their feud fairly heavily, and Suguwara was fired for unrelated reasons, leaving Mori as the breakup breakout. But since then, Suguwara re-invented himself on the Japanese indy scene while Mori slid down the rankings to jobber-to-the-stars. Suguwara recently returned to Dragon Gate after a half a decade absence, and is now somewhere between upper midcarder and main eventer, and leading the Real Hazard stable. A rare case of the breakup breakout situation reversing itself.
* There are cases where the valet becomes more popular than the wrestler(s) she is managing, besides Lita and Melina.
** Marc Mero and his (then) RealLife wife, Sable. Guess who was more popular during the Attitude Era?
** Sunny and The Bodydonnas (which featured Sunny's then-real-life boyfriend, Chris Candido, AKA Skip).
** Debra [=McMichael=], who managed Steve "Mongo" [=McMichael=] in WCW and Jeff Jarrett in the WWF. She was even briefly married to StoneColdSteveAustin in 2000.
** Trish Stratus and T and A (Test and Albert; not to be confused with TNA).
** Stacy Keibler. Did you know she debuted as the valet for a team called Standards and Practices?
*** She managed to Breakup Breakout the Nitro Girls as well. She went on DancingWithTheStars and became so famous there she left the wrestling business. What have any of the other Nitro Girls ever done? Rebecca "Whisper" Michaels married Shawn Michaels and makes occasional appearances on the air, but has never been involved in a storyline. Sharmelle Sullivan ("Storm") married Booker T. The others haven't done anything noteworthy ever.
* The British Invasion: Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams and Rob Terry. Terry the {{butt monkey}} of the stable went on to become TNA Global champion and thus far the longest reigning champion in the belt's history. Doug Williams is a 2 time X-Division champion and one of the top guys of the division. Magnus has been taken off television following his PPV lost to Terry
* WWE had the Spirit Squad, a five man stable consisting of male cheerleaders Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky and Mikey. Out of the five only Nicky is still employed in the WWE and has been repackaged as Dolph Ziggler enjoying single success on Smackdown.
** Which is ironic since the whole Spirit Squad gimmick was used to put over Kenny.
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* The Rockers - Pictured above. ShawnMichaels is a huge star, Marty Jannetty hasn't been relevant in years, except as the guy that the left-behind tag-team member is always compared to. Strangely, Jannetty's status as the Jannetty has reached the point where on his occasional reappearances he's massively over.
* The Hart Foundation - OK, this team had BretHart, who went on to become a multiple-time world champion and hall of famer, and... Who? [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Exactly]].
** At least Niedhart got inducted in the Hall of Fame.
* Edge & Christian - {{Edge}} has had three times the amount of World titles {{Christian}} has, and in a bigger company at that.
** Although it's safe to say that both were much more successful than Gangrel, who was the leader of the stable they were originally on, the Brood.
* The Hardy Boyz - JeffHardy was {{WWE}} Champion while Matt had the {{ECW}} Championship which is relatively meaningless in comparison.
** Earlier in the decade it looked like Matt was the one who would become the breakout star, as he started the immensely popular Version One character while Jeff got fired. But then the Matt/Edge/Lita debacle happened and Matt's career got completely derailed, and Jeff redeemed himself. Long enough to win a World Title at least.
** Lita started out in WWE as the valet for Essa Rios. Her popularity immediately eclipsed his, and she went on to be a multi-time Womens Champion and participated in some major angles as a valet first for Matt Hardy and then Edge. Rios, on the other hand, was demoted to the point where it was a running joke how rarely he was used, before he got released. He can currently be found midcarding in Mexico as Mr. Aguila.
* The Radicalz: EddieGuerrero, ChrisBenoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn. We all know what happened to the former two, and for the wrong reasons.
* [[strike:[[StoneColdSteveAustin Stone Cold]]]] [[StoneColdSteveAustin Stunning Steve Austin]] and Brian Pillman of the Hollywood Blondes. Austin became six time {{WWE}} champion and the only man to win the Royal Rumble [[RuleOfThree thrice]].
** To be fair, the main reason for this was Pillman's untimely death at age 35. At the time, both Pillman and Austin were both very over high mid-carders (Austin being only a few months into developing the foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, [[AntiHero anti-hero]] we know him as today). In fact, Pillman's death came [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at the beginning stages of a feud between the two]].
* The Thrillseekers: ChrisJericho and Lance Storm. Guess who's more successful and popular...
* America's Most Wanted - One would go on to form an even greater tag team known as [[MemeticMutation BEER! MONEY!]] The other was [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Braden Walker.]]
* Degeneration-X - Not a total example as Shawn Michaels was already a big star when the group started, but of the other members of the group only TripleH discovered any real longterm success.
** The others were less successful due to backstage incidents and cases of SmallNameBigEgo. Oh, and one became so unpopular he became the TropeNamer for XPacHeat.
* During the last days of WCW, AJ Styles was half of a tag team with a guy named Air Paris. Styles is a multi-time champion in TNA. Paris is currently the booker for the tiny independent promotion NAWA Ring Champions.
* The Steiner Brothers: ScottSteiner (''[[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} HUH?]]'') became a {{WCW}} Champion in 2000 (''[[VerbalTic HUH?]]'') and worked in the WWE (''HUH?'') and in {{TNA}} (''HUH?''), while Rick (''HUH?'') is currently (''HUH?'') in a local school board (''HUH?'').
** "I'M HUNGRY!"
** Ironically, before the split, the Steiner Brothers were generally thought of as "Rick Steiner and his less-interesting brother". Then Scotty put on 100 pounds of muscle, bleached his hair, and reinvented himself as a KavorkaMan with "freaks" in every city. Rick, on the other hand, floundered about in the upper midcard and then turned heel. Although he was a pretty good face, as a heel he was a complete heat vacuum.
* Harlem Heat: Booker T becomes a six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time World Heavyweight Champion, and who knows what Stevie Ray is doing currently. (Working for Booker at his wrestling school, actually).
* The Second City Saints: {{CM Punk}} is a former World Champion, Colt Cabana (aka Scotty Goldman) recently got released from {{WWE}} after a brief run as a {{jobber}}. Oh, and did you know there's a third Second City Saint named Ace Steel?
** But to be fair, from the moment the three became the Second City Saints in RoH, Punk was ''always'' the ace of the group so YourMileageMayVary on whether this counts or not.
* [=MNM=]: Johnny Nitro became John Morrison, won the ECW Title, joined another succesful tag team, and is currently a upper-midcarder on [=SmackDown=] being primed for the big time. Joey Mercury... had a few spots for {{ROH}}. Even their valet Melina did better than Mercury, wining the Women's Title on a couple of occasions.
** Strangely, subverted with Morrison's tag team with The Miz -- ''everyone'' figured Miz would be lost in the midcard on Raw after the tandem broke up while Morrison moved on to bigger and better things on [=SmackDown=], but as of this writing both have firmly established themselves as on par with the top guys of their brands. They even lampshaded it when, before Bragging Rights and a scheduled Morrison vs. Miz match, the two cut dueling promos trying to declare the other one the Janetty of their team.
*** And now, with John Morrison being moved to Raw, he and the Miz have had their successes, and as of July 18, The Miz has risen to stardom by winning the Raw Money in the Bank Ladder match at the MITB PPV, not only beating six other superstars, three being Main Eventers, but also John Morrison himself...did I forget to mention that Morrison has now lost five matches to the Miz in the last year?
* WCW had Three Count, a boy band stable consisting of Evan Karagias, Shannon Moore and Shane Helms. Of the three, Helms has had a moderately successful WWE career as The Hurricane and as Gregory Helms, Moore has had a WWE career but been primarily a jobber, and Karaigas hasn't done anything. Although, Helms' status of BreakupBreakout came during his WCW days, when he started using the Vertebreaker as his finisher and was given an elaborate entrance and custom theme song.
* This has happened with Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder as the latter has been established as a hot new heel on ECW with his memorable {{catchphrase}} and [[EarWorm theme music]], while the former has since completely disappeared from WWE television and returned to a developmental territory.
** Subverted now that Curt Hawkins is back on Smackdown teaming with another former ECW Star in Vance Archer.
* Even if he had moderate success, Billy Gunn hit superstardom in comparison to what happened to Bart Gunn from The Smoking Gunns. He also outlived Road Dogg in the WWE even if they later reunited in TNA.
* In a "rivals" version of this, {{Rey Mysterio Jr}}. and Psicosis. They debuted together, feuded all through Mexico, Japan, ECW, WCW... then 2001ish WCW released all their Luchadors except for Mysterio (and Juventud Guererra). Mysterio later got scooped up by WWE and eventually became a World Champion. Psicosis, on the other hand, got a short WWE run and nothing to show for it. When they met in a Royal Rumble, Mysterio just kinda backhanded Psicosis out of the ring. Mysterio's still a major superstar. Psicosis isn't as big in his native Mexico as Mysterio is in the US.
* And of course probably the biggest example would be [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]], who was once part of the Nation of Domination, before rising to new heights which ultimately led him to Hollywood.
* The World's Greatest Tag Team: Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. After the team split up Shelton got three consecutive victories over Triple H, became a three time Intercontinental champion, a former United States Champion and is the highlight of Money in the Bank match in every Wrestlemania. Charlie Haas was primary used as a jobber-to-the-stars and occasionally part of an unsuccessful make-shift tag team. He was even released and re-hired a couple times before being released (so far) for good in 2010.
** A strange subversion here in that the WGTT actually has more drawing power than either Haas or Benjamin separately. Now that Benjamin has also been released from WWE, there's a lot of hope that the team will reunite.
*** Which they did, in RingOfHonor. AndTheFandomRejoiced.
* Not to say that Chuck Palumbo has had an extraordinarily successful career, but he's had a better one than that of his tag partner in The Perfect Event, Shawn Stasiak. Palumbo had a good run as WWE Tag Team Champion with Billy Gunn, and was part of the Voodoo Murders stable in AJPW. Stasiak got to play a gimmick where he was deliberately clumsy, and now works as a chiropractor.
* DragonGate had a stable called the Royal Brothers, with Anthony W. Mori, Henry III Suguwara, and Phillip J. Fukamasa. Fukamasa barely lasted an entire year, leaving Mori and Suguwara a tag team. Then Suguwara turned heel on Mori (and started using his real name Takuya Suguwara). Mori won their feud fairly heavily, and Suguwara was fired for unrelated reasons, leaving Mori as the breakup breakout. But since then, Suguwara re-invented himself on the Japanese indy scene while Mori slid down the rankings to jobber-to-the-stars. Suguwara recently returned to Dragon Gate after a half a decade absence, and is now somewhere between upper midcarder and main eventer, and leading the Real Hazard stable. A rare case of the breakup breakout situation reversing itself.
* There are cases where the valet becomes more popular than the wrestler(s) she is managing, besides Lita and Melina.
** Marc Mero and his (then) RealLife wife, Sable. Guess who was more popular during the Attitude Era?
** Sunny and The Bodydonnas (which featured Sunny's then-real-life boyfriend, Chris Candido, AKA Skip).
** Debra [=McMichael=], who managed Steve "Mongo" [=McMichael=] in WCW and Jeff Jarrett in the WWF. She was even briefly married to StoneColdSteveAustin in 2000.
** Trish Stratus and T and A (Test and Albert; not to be confused with TNA).
** Stacy Keibler. Did you know she debuted as the valet for a team called Standards and Practices?
*** She managed to Breakup Breakout the Nitro Girls as well. She went on DancingWithTheStars and became so famous there she left the wrestling business. What have any of the other Nitro Girls ever done? Rebecca "Whisper" Michaels married Shawn Michaels and makes occasional appearances on the air, but has never been involved in a storyline. Sharmelle Sullivan ("Storm") married Booker T. The others haven't done anything noteworthy ever.
* The British Invasion: Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams and Rob Terry. Terry the {{butt monkey}} of the stable went on to become TNA Global champion and thus far the longest reigning champion in the belt's history. Doug Williams is a 2 time X-Division champion and one of the top guys of the division. Magnus has been taken off television following his PPV lost to Terry
* WWE had the Spirit Squad, a five man stable consisting of male cheerleaders Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky and Mikey. Out of the five only Nicky is still employed in the WWE and has been repackaged as Dolph Ziggler enjoying single success on Smackdown.
** Which is ironic since the whole Spirit Squad gimmick was used to put over Kenny.
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* The Rockers - Pictured above. ShawnMichaels is a huge star, Marty Jannetty hasn't been relevant in years, except as the guy that the left-behind tag-team member is always compared to. Strangely, Jannetty's status as the Jannetty has reached the point where on his occasional reappearances he's massively over.
* The Hart Foundation - OK, this team had BretHart, who went on to become a multiple-time world champion and hall of famer, and... Who? [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Exactly]].
** At least Niedhart got inducted in the Hall of Fame.
* Edge & Christian - {{Edge}} has had three times the amount of World titles {{Christian}} has, and in a bigger company at that.
** Although it's safe to say that both were much more successful than Gangrel, who was the leader of the stable they were originally on, the Brood.
* The Hardy Boyz - JeffHardy was {{WWE}} Champion while Matt had the {{ECW}} Championship which is relatively meaningless in comparison.
** Earlier in the decade it looked like Matt was the one who would become the breakout star, as he started the immensely popular Version One character while Jeff got fired. But then the Matt/Edge/Lita debacle happened and Matt's career got completely derailed, and Jeff redeemed himself. Long enough to win a World Title at least.
** Lita started out in WWE as the valet for Essa Rios. Her popularity immediately eclipsed his, and she went on to be a multi-time Womens Champion and participated in some major angles as a valet first for Matt Hardy and then Edge. Rios, on the other hand, was demoted to the point where it was a running joke how rarely he was used, before he got released. He can currently be found midcarding in Mexico as Mr. Aguila.
* The Radicalz: EddieGuerrero, ChrisBenoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn. We all know what happened to the former two, and for the wrong reasons.
* [[strike:[[StoneColdSteveAustin Stone Cold]]]] [[StoneColdSteveAustin Stunning Steve Austin]] and Brian Pillman of the Hollywood Blondes. Austin became six time {{WWE}} champion and the only man to win the Royal Rumble [[RuleOfThree thrice]].
** To be fair, the main reason for this was Pillman's untimely death at age 35. At the time, both Pillman and Austin were both very over high mid-carders (Austin being only a few months into developing the foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, [[AntiHero anti-hero]] we know him as today). In fact, Pillman's death came [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at the beginning stages of a feud between the two]].
* The Thrillseekers: ChrisJericho and Lance Storm. Guess who's more successful and popular...
* America's Most Wanted - One would go on to form an even greater tag team known as [[MemeticMutation BEER! MONEY!]] The other was [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Braden Walker.]]
* Degeneration-X - Not a total example as Shawn Michaels was already a big star when the group started, but of the other members of the group only TripleH discovered any real longterm success.
** The others were less successful due to backstage incidents and cases of SmallNameBigEgo. Oh, and one became so unpopular he became the TropeNamer for XPacHeat.
* During the last days of WCW, AJ Styles was half of a tag team with a guy named Air Paris. Styles is a multi-time champion in TNA. Paris is currently the booker for the tiny independent promotion NAWA Ring Champions.
* The Steiner Brothers: ScottSteiner (''[[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} HUH?]]'') became a {{WCW}} Champion in 2000 (''[[VerbalTic HUH?]]'') and worked in the WWE (''HUH?'') and in {{TNA}} (''HUH?''), while Rick (''HUH?'') is currently (''HUH?'') in a local school board (''HUH?'').
** "I'M HUNGRY!"
** Ironically, before the split, the Steiner Brothers were generally thought of as "Rick Steiner and his less-interesting brother". Then Scotty put on 100 pounds of muscle, bleached his hair, and reinvented himself as a KavorkaMan with "freaks" in every city. Rick, on the other hand, floundered about in the upper midcard and then turned heel. Although he was a pretty good face, as a heel he was a complete heat vacuum.
* Harlem Heat: Booker T becomes a six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time World Heavyweight Champion, and who knows what Stevie Ray is doing currently. (Working for Booker at his wrestling school, actually).
* The Second City Saints: {{CM Punk}} is a former World Champion, Colt Cabana (aka Scotty Goldman) recently got released from {{WWE}} after a brief run as a {{jobber}}. Oh, and did you know there's a third Second City Saint named Ace Steel?
** But to be fair, from the moment the three became the Second City Saints in RoH, Punk was ''always'' the ace of the group so YourMileageMayVary on whether this counts or not.
* [=MNM=]: Johnny Nitro became John Morrison, won the ECW Title, joined another succesful tag team, and is currently a upper-midcarder on [=SmackDown=] being primed for the big time. Joey Mercury... had a few spots for {{ROH}}. Even their valet Melina did better than Mercury, wining the Women's Title on a couple of occasions.
** Strangely, subverted with Morrison's tag team with The Miz -- ''everyone'' figured Miz would be lost in the midcard on Raw after the tandem broke up while Morrison moved on to bigger and better things on [=SmackDown=], but as of this writing both have firmly established themselves as on par with the top guys of their brands. They even lampshaded it when, before Bragging Rights and a scheduled Morrison vs. Miz match, the two cut dueling promos trying to declare the other one the Janetty of their team.
*** And now, with John Morrison being moved to Raw, he and the Miz have had their successes, and as of July 18, The Miz has risen to stardom by winning the Raw Money in the Bank Ladder match at the MITB PPV, not only beating six other superstars, three being Main Eventers, but also John Morrison himself...did I forget to mention that Morrison has now lost five matches to the Miz in the last year?
* WCW had Three Count, a boy band stable consisting of Evan Karagias, Shannon Moore and Shane Helms. Of the three, Helms has had a moderately successful WWE career as The Hurricane and as Gregory Helms, Moore has had a WWE career but been primarily a jobber, and Karaigas hasn't done anything. Although, Helms' status of BreakupBreakout came during his WCW days, when he started using the Vertebreaker as his finisher and was given an elaborate entrance and custom theme song.
* This has happened with Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder as the latter has been established as a hot new heel on ECW with his memorable {{catchphrase}} and [[EarWorm theme music]], while the former has since completely disappeared from WWE television and returned to a developmental territory.
** Subverted now that Curt Hawkins is back on Smackdown teaming with another former ECW Star in Vance Archer.
* Even if he had moderate success, Billy Gunn hit superstardom in comparison to what happened to Bart Gunn from The Smoking Gunns. He also outlived Road Dogg in the WWE even if they later reunited in TNA.
* In a "rivals" version of this, {{Rey Mysterio Jr}}. and Psicosis. They debuted together, feuded all through Mexico, Japan, ECW, WCW... then 2001ish WCW released all their Luchadors except for Mysterio (and Juventud Guererra). Mysterio later got scooped up by WWE and eventually became a World Champion. Psicosis, on the other hand, got a short WWE run and nothing to show for it. When they met in a Royal Rumble, Mysterio just kinda backhanded Psicosis out of the ring. Mysterio's still a major superstar. Psicosis isn't as big in his native Mexico as Mysterio is in the US.
* And of course probably the biggest example would be [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]], who was once part of the Nation of Domination, before rising to new heights which ultimately led him to Hollywood.
* The World's Greatest Tag Team: Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. After the team split up Shelton got three consecutive victories over Triple H, became a three time Intercontinental champion, a former United States Champion and is the highlight of Money in the Bank match in every Wrestlemania. Charlie Haas was primary used as a jobber-to-the-stars and occasionally part of an unsuccessful make-shift tag team. He was even released and re-hired a couple times before being released (so far) for good in 2010.
** A strange subversion here in that the WGTT actually has more drawing power than either Haas or Benjamin separately. Now that Benjamin has also been released from WWE, there's a lot of hope that the team will reunite.
*** Which they did, in RingOfHonor. AndTheFandomRejoiced.
* Not to say that Chuck Palumbo has had an extraordinarily successful career, but he's had a better one than that of his tag partner in The Perfect Event, Shawn Stasiak. Palumbo had a good run as WWE Tag Team Champion with Billy Gunn, and was part of the Voodoo Murders stable in AJPW. Stasiak got to play a gimmick where he was deliberately clumsy, and now works as a chiropractor.
* DragonGate had a stable called the Royal Brothers, with Anthony W. Mori, Henry III Suguwara, and Phillip J. Fukamasa. Fukamasa barely lasted an entire year, leaving Mori and Suguwara a tag team. Then Suguwara turned heel on Mori (and started using his real name Takuya Suguwara). Mori won their feud fairly heavily, and Suguwara was fired for unrelated reasons, leaving Mori as the breakup breakout. But since then, Suguwara re-invented himself on the Japanese indy scene while Mori slid down the rankings to jobber-to-the-stars. Suguwara recently returned to Dragon Gate after a half a decade absence, and is now somewhere between upper midcarder and main eventer, and leading the Real Hazard stable. A rare case of the breakup breakout situation reversing itself.
* There are cases where the valet becomes more popular than the wrestler(s) she is managing, besides Lita and Melina.
** Marc Mero and his (then) RealLife wife, Sable. Guess who was more popular during the Attitude Era?
** Sunny and The Bodydonnas (which featured Sunny's then-real-life boyfriend, Chris Candido, AKA Skip).
** Debra [=McMichael=], who managed Steve "Mongo" [=McMichael=] in WCW and Jeff Jarrett in the WWF. She was even briefly married to StoneColdSteveAustin in 2000.
** Trish Stratus and T and A (Test and Albert; not to be confused with TNA).
** Stacy Keibler. Did you know she debuted as the valet for a team called Standards and Practices?
*** She managed to Breakup Breakout the Nitro Girls as well. She went on DancingWithTheStars and became so famous there she left the wrestling business. What have any of the other Nitro Girls ever done? Rebecca "Whisper" Michaels married Shawn Michaels and makes occasional appearances on the air, but has never been involved in a storyline. Sharmelle Sullivan ("Storm") married Booker T. The others haven't done anything noteworthy ever.
* The British Invasion: Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams and Rob Terry. Terry the {{butt monkey}} of the stable went on to become TNA Global champion and thus far the longest reigning champion in the belt's history. Doug Williams is a 2 time X-Division champion and one of the top guys of the division. Magnus has been taken off television following his PPV lost to Terry
* WWE had the Spirit Squad, a five man stable consisting of male cheerleaders Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky and Mikey. Out of the five only Nicky is still employed in the WWE and has been repackaged as Dolph Ziggler enjoying single success on Smackdown.
** Which is ironic since the whole Spirit Squad gimmick was used to put over Kenny.
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* The Rockers - Pictured above. ShawnMichaels is a huge star, Marty Jannetty hasn't been relevant in years, except as the guy that the left-behind tag-team member is always compared to. Strangely, Jannetty's status as the Jannetty has reached the point where on his occasional reappearances he's massively over.
* The Hart Foundation - OK, this team had BretHart, who went on to become a multiple-time world champion and hall of famer, and... Who? [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Exactly]].
** At least Niedhart got inducted in the Hall of Fame.
* Edge & Christian - {{Edge}} has had three times the amount of World titles {{Christian}} has, and in a bigger company at that.
** Although it's safe to say that both were much more successful than Gangrel, who was the leader of the stable they were originally on, the Brood.
* The Hardy Boyz - JeffHardy was {{WWE}} Champion while Matt had the {{ECW}} Championship which is relatively meaningless in comparison.
** Earlier in the decade it looked like Matt was the one who would become the breakout star, as he started the immensely popular Version One character while Jeff got fired. But then the Matt/Edge/Lita debacle happened and Matt's career got completely derailed, and Jeff redeemed himself. Long enough to win a World Title at least.
** Lita started out in WWE as the valet for Essa Rios. Her popularity immediately eclipsed his, and she went on to be a multi-time Womens Champion and participated in some major angles as a valet first for Matt Hardy and then Edge. Rios, on the other hand, was demoted to the point where it was a running joke how rarely he was used, before he got released. He can currently be found midcarding in Mexico as Mr. Aguila.
* The Radicalz: EddieGuerrero, ChrisBenoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn. We all know what happened to the former two, and for the wrong reasons.
* [[strike:[[StoneColdSteveAustin Stone Cold]]]] [[StoneColdSteveAustin Stunning Steve Austin]] and Brian Pillman of the Hollywood Blondes. Austin became six time {{WWE}} champion and the only man to win the Royal Rumble [[RuleOfThree thrice]].
** To be fair, the main reason for this was Pillman's untimely death at age 35. At the time, both Pillman and Austin were both very over high mid-carders (Austin being only a few months into developing the foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, [[AntiHero anti-hero]] we know him as today). In fact, Pillman's death came [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at the beginning stages of a feud between the two]].
* The Thrillseekers: ChrisJericho and Lance Storm. Guess who's more successful and popular...
* America's Most Wanted - One would go on to form an even greater tag team known as [[MemeticMutation BEER! MONEY!]] The other was [[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} Braden Walker.]]
* Degeneration-X - Not a total example as Shawn Michaels was already a big star when the group started, but of the other members of the group only TripleH discovered any real longterm success.
** The others were less successful due to backstage incidents and cases of SmallNameBigEgo. Oh, and one became so unpopular he became the TropeNamer for XPacHeat.
* During the last days of WCW, AJ Styles was half of a tag team with a guy named Air Paris. Styles is a multi-time champion in TNA. Paris is currently the booker for the tiny independent promotion NAWA Ring Champions.
* The Steiner Brothers: ScottSteiner (''[[{{Memes/ProfessionalWrestling}} HUH?]]'') became a {{WCW}} Champion in 2000 (''[[VerbalTic HUH?]]'') and worked in the WWE (''HUH?'') and in {{TNA}} (''HUH?''), while Rick (''HUH?'') is currently (''HUH?'') in a local school board (''HUH?'').
** "I'M HUNGRY!"
** Ironically, before the split, the Steiner Brothers were generally thought of as "Rick Steiner and his less-interesting brother". Then Scotty put on 100 pounds of muscle, bleached his hair, and reinvented himself as a KavorkaMan with "freaks" in every city. Rick, on the other hand, floundered about in the upper midcard and then turned heel. Although he was a pretty good face, as a heel he was a complete heat vacuum.
* Harlem Heat: Booker T becomes a six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time World Heavyweight Champion, and who knows what Stevie Ray is doing currently. (Working for Booker at his wrestling school, actually).
* The Second City Saints: {{CM Punk}} is a former World Champion, Colt Cabana (aka Scotty Goldman) recently got released from {{WWE}} after a brief run as a {{jobber}}. Oh, and did you know there's a third Second City Saint named Ace Steel?
** But to be fair, from the moment the three became the Second City Saints in RoH, Punk was ''always'' the ace of the group so YourMileageMayVary on whether this counts or not.
* [=MNM=]: Johnny Nitro became John Morrison, won the ECW Title, joined another succesful tag team, and is currently a upper-midcarder on [=SmackDown=] being primed for the big time. Joey Mercury... had a few spots for {{ROH}}. Even their valet Melina did better than Mercury, wining the Women's Title on a couple of occasions.
** Strangely, subverted with Morrison's tag team with The Miz -- ''everyone'' figured Miz would be lost in the midcard on Raw after the tandem broke up while Morrison moved on to bigger and better things on [=SmackDown=], but as of this writing both have firmly established themselves as on par with the top guys of their brands. They even lampshaded it when, before Bragging Rights and a scheduled Morrison vs. Miz match, the two cut dueling promos trying to declare the other one the Janetty of their team.
*** And now, with John Morrison being moved to Raw, he and the Miz have had their successes, and as of July 18, The Miz has risen to stardom by winning the Raw Money in the Bank Ladder match at the MITB PPV, not only beating six other superstars, three being Main Eventers, but also John Morrison himself...did I forget to mention that Morrison has now lost five matches to the Miz in the last year?
* WCW had Three Count, a boy band stable consisting of Evan Karagias, Shannon Moore and Shane Helms. Of the three, Helms has had a moderately successful WWE career as The Hurricane and as Gregory Helms, Moore has had a WWE career but been primarily a jobber, and Karaigas hasn't done anything. Although, Helms' status of BreakupBreakout came during his WCW days, when he started using the Vertebreaker as his finisher and was given an elaborate entrance and custom theme song.
* This has happened with Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder as the latter has been established as a hot new heel on ECW with his memorable {{catchphrase}} and [[EarWorm theme music]], while the former has since completely disappeared from WWE television and returned to a developmental territory.
** Subverted now that Curt Hawkins is back on Smackdown teaming with another former ECW Star in Vance Archer.
* Even if he had moderate success, Billy Gunn hit superstardom in comparison to what happened to Bart Gunn from The Smoking Gunns. He also outlived Road Dogg in the WWE even if they later reunited in TNA.
* In a "rivals" version of this, {{Rey Mysterio Jr}}. and Psicosis. They debuted together, feuded all through Mexico, Japan, ECW, WCW... then 2001ish WCW released all their Luchadors except for Mysterio (and Juventud Guererra). Mysterio later got scooped up by WWE and eventually became a World Champion. Psicosis, on the other hand, got a short WWE run and nothing to show for it. When they met in a Royal Rumble, Mysterio just kinda backhanded Psicosis out of the ring. Mysterio's still a major superstar. Psicosis isn't as big in his native Mexico as Mysterio is in the US.
* And of course probably the biggest example would be [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]], who was once part of the Nation of Domination, before rising to new heights which ultimately led him to Hollywood.
* The World's Greatest Tag Team: Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. After the team split up Shelton got three consecutive victories over Triple H, became a three time Intercontinental champion, a former United States Champion and is the highlight of Money in the Bank match in every Wrestlemania. Charlie Haas was primary used as a jobber-to-the-stars and occasionally part of an unsuccessful make-shift tag team. He was even released and re-hired a couple times before being released (so far) for good in 2010.
** A strange subversion here in that the WGTT actually has more drawing power than either Haas or Benjamin separately. Now that Benjamin has also been released from WWE, there's a lot of hope that the team will reunite.
*** Which they did, in RingOfHonor. AndTheFandomRejoiced.
* Not to say that Chuck Palumbo has had an extraordinarily successful career, but he's had a better one than that of his tag partner in The Perfect Event, Shawn Stasiak. Palumbo had a good run as WWE Tag Team Champion with Billy Gunn, and was part of the Voodoo Murders stable in AJPW. Stasiak got to play a gimmick where he was deliberately clumsy, and now works as a chiropractor.
* DragonGate had a stable called the Royal Brothers, with Anthony W. Mori, Henry III Suguwara, and Phillip J. Fukamasa. Fukamasa barely lasted an entire year, leaving Mori and Suguwara a tag team. Then Suguwara turned heel on Mori (and started using his real name Takuya Suguwara). Mori won their feud fairly heavily, and Suguwara was fired for unrelated reasons, leaving Mori as the breakup breakout. But since then, Suguwara re-invented himself on the Japanese indy scene while Mori slid down the rankings to jobber-to-the-stars. Suguwara recently returned to Dragon Gate after a half a decade absence, and is now somewhere between upper midcarder and main eventer, and leading the Real Hazard stable. A rare case of the breakup breakout situation reversing itself.
* There are cases where the valet becomes more popular than the wrestler(s) she is managing, besides Lita and Melina.
** Marc Mero and his (then) RealLife wife, Sable. Guess who was more popular during the Attitude Era?
** Sunny and The Bodydonnas (which featured Sunny's then-real-life boyfriend, Chris Candido, AKA Skip).
** Debra [=McMichael=], who managed Steve "Mongo" [=McMichael=] in WCW and Jeff Jarrett in the WWF. She was even briefly married to StoneColdSteveAustin in 2000.
** Trish Stratus and T and A (Test and Albert; not to be confused with TNA).
** Stacy Keibler. Did you know she debuted as the valet for a team called Standards and Practices?
*** She managed to Breakup Breakout the Nitro Girls as well. She went on DancingWithTheStars and became so famous there she left the wrestling business. What have any of the other Nitro Girls ever done? Rebecca "Whisper" Michaels married Shawn Michaels and makes occasional appearances on the air, but has never been involved in a storyline. Sharmelle Sullivan ("Storm") married Booker T. The others haven't done anything noteworthy ever.
* The British Invasion: Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams and Rob Terry. Terry the {{butt monkey}} of the stable went on to become TNA Global champion and thus far the longest reigning champion in the belt's history. Doug Williams is a 2 time X-Division champion and one of the top guys of the division. Magnus has been taken off television following his PPV lost to Terry
* WWE had the Spirit Squad, a five man stable consisting of male cheerleaders Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky and Mikey. Out of the five only Nicky is still employed in the WWE and has been repackaged as Dolph Ziggler enjoying single success on Smackdown.
** Which is ironic since the whole Spirit Squad gimmick was used to put over Kenny.
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* In a "rivals" version of this, Rey Mysterio Jr. and Psicosis. They debuted together, feuded all through Mexico, Japan, ECW, WCW... then 2001ish WCW released all their Luchadors except for Mysterio (and Juventud Guererra). Mysterio later got scooped up by WWE and eventually became a World Champion. Psicosis, on the other hand, got a short WWE run and nothing to show for it. When they met in a Royal Rumble, Mysterio just kinda backhanded Psicosis out of the ring. Mysterio's still a major superstar. Psicosis isn't as big in his native Mexico as Mysterio is in the US.
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* Not to say that Chuck Palumbo has had an extraordinarily successful career, but he's had a better one than that of his tag partner in The Perfect Event, Shawn Stasiak. Palumbo had a good run as WWE Tag Team Champion with Billy Gunn, and was part of the Voodoo Murders stable in NJPW. Stasiak got to play a gimmick where he was deliberately clumsy, and now works as a chiropractor.
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** Played straight, however, between Steve Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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** Which is ironic since the whole Spirit Squad gimmick was used to put over Kenny.
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** To be fair, the main reason for this was Pillman's untimely death at age 35. At the time, both Pillman and Austin were both very over high mid-carders (Austin being only a few months into developing the foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, [[AntiHero anti-hero]] we know him as today). In fact, Pillman's death came [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at the beginning stages of a feud between the two]].
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* Wild Orchid had a couple albums, and was reasonably successful. Stacy Ferguson left them to become Fergie and join the Black Eyed Peas. The rest? Some voicework and songwriting, at best.
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* Wild Orchid had a couple albums, and was reasonably successful. Stacy Ferguson left them to become Fergie and join the Black {{Black Eyed Peas.Peas}}. The rest? Some voicework and songwriting, at best.
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*** Which they did, in RingOfHonor. AndTheFandomRejoiced.
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* Even TheMuppets have an example of this: The short-lived ''Mupppets Tonight'' introduced the comedy team of Pepe (a prawn) and Seymour (an elephant). Pepe has since gone on to appear in many later Muppet projects, while Seymour vanished without a trace.
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** Is that an aversion or a MostTriumphantExample, given that EVERYONE had breakout careers?
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* The British Invasion: Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams and Rob Terry. Terry the {{butt monkey}} of the stable went on to become TNA Global champion and thus far the longest reigning champion in the belt's history. Doug Williams is a 2 time X-Division champion and one of the top guys of the division. Magnus has been taken off television following his PPV lost to Terry
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* The British Invasion: Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams and Rob Terry. Terry the {{butt monkey}} of the stable went on to become TNA Global champion and thus far the longest reigning champion in the belt's history. Doug Williams is a 2 time X-Division champion and one of the top guys of the division. Magnus has been taken off television following his PPV lost to Terry Terry
* WWE had the Spirit Squad, a five man stable consisting of male cheerleaders Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky and Mikey. Out of the five only Nicky is still employed in the WWE and has been repackaged as Dolph Ziggler enjoying single success on Smackdown.
* WWE had the Spirit Squad, a five man stable consisting of male cheerleaders Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky and Mikey. Out of the five only Nicky is still employed in the WWE and has been repackaged as Dolph Ziggler enjoying single success on Smackdown.
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* The British Invasion: Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams and Rob Terry. Terry the {{butt monkey}} of the stable went on to become TNA Global champion and thus far the longest reigning champion in the belt's history. Doug Williams is a 2 time X-Division champion and one of the top guys of the division. Magnus has been taken off television following his PPV lost to Terry
