10 Most Influential 3 Team Wrestling Stables
1. The New World Order (1996)
There has simply never been a more important 3-man combination in wrestling history than the union of Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.
Though impossible to predict with certainty, the industry was on life support in the mid-1990s, and may have never survived (let alone thrived) without the shot in the arm delivered by the formation of the nWo.
WCW had built on the early success of Nitro, and may have continued to use Ted Turner's funds to acquire new talent, but on evidence of the first year of Eric Bischoff's Monday Night innovation, nobody was better positioned to put a bullet in the WWE empire than Vince McMahon himself.
After an early upward trend in 1996 after a disastrous 1995, WWF had returned to near-financial ruin, with few talents rising above the parapet and Shawn Michaels' bouquet of fabulous matches failing to translate to the box office.
The nWo changed everything. WCW went from a passable Turner experiment to a rampant, money-spewing giant. Bischoff was a titan of industry and the original 'Titan' was on his knees.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and WWE needed change like never before just to even compete. Nothing forced their hand like the New World Order.