10 Short-Lived Wrestling Stables You've Already Forgotten

3. Thuggin' & Buggin' Enterprises

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Teddy Long's last regular gig as a manager in the traditional sense before taking over SmackDown in 2004 found him at first choosing violence as a way to get across his message of systemic hate in WWE.

Predictably, this was all a little too sensitive for the company to properly address, begging the question why they even bothered in the first place. But bother they did, and Thuggin' & Buggin' Enterprises were born as a bland Monday Night Raw heel unit.

Having dumped D'Lo Brown as his first client, Long picked up Rodney Mack and later Mark Henry, Chris Nowinski and a few select others to gamely fight oppression in an organisation that's typically made babyfaces out of the oppressors. Almost never in contention for titles or even bothering the business of the red brand's moribund heroes at the time, their year-plus run has been lost to decades of similar content spew.

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