10 Fantasy WWE Stables That Would Have Been Amazing

5. 3MB...Again

Finn Bálor
WWE

Maybe this one isn't as far-fetched as it might first appear.

Far from having any nostalgic longing for the original 3-Man Band, the coming together of Jinder Mahal, Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre in 2019 would be far more fascinating in light of the wildly different journeys the trio have been on since their enforced disbanding in 2014.

Heath Slater will celebrate a decade on the main roster in 2020 having embraced his funny side as well as showing remarkable malleability with every idea thrust his way. Despite the company's punishing reliance on comedy above virtually every other creative avenue, he's proven deft with it beyond the failed efforts of many contemporaries. They were traits WWE didn't see in Mahal or McIntyre then, though the two would have other attributes deeming them worthy of monster pushes in the years that followed.

Size will always get one somewhere as long as Vince McMahon sits in WWE's top seat, and though Mahal's catastrophic WWE Championship run in 2017 undermined both the belt and his passable work, he recently signed with the organisation for five more years. Within that time, McIntyre will surely get a turn with the title too following his relatively successful reintroduction via NXT in the same year Jinder ascended.

The three of them would look markedly different as a unit now than they did back then. And what was that about a punishing reliance on comedy?

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