10 WWE Gimmicks Nobody Was Supposed To Take Seriously

10. The Spirit Squad

The Spirit Squad was brought in as a group of five younger wrestlers who were trying to make a name for themselves. They were male cheerleaders that shouted their names pretty much every time we saw them: "Kenny! Johnny! Mitch! Nicky! Mikey!" Nicky is the only one still in WWE. That's Dolph Ziggler. They dressed in these green outfits and they were billed as male cheerleaders, which made people laugh because that's what people do when they think of male cheerleaders whether that's right or not. They were not in WWE to be some serious group. They were merely there to prevent Vince & Shane McMahon to get their asses kicked when they were feuding with Degeneration X. It was never really anything more than that. The group actually held the tag titles for 216 days from April to November 2006, but it was forgettable because of how poor the tag division was on the Raw brand. They started in January 2006 and were gone by November that year. In other words, they served a purpose. Then they were gone when that story was over. A lot of fans remember their farewell on Raw in November 2006 when Degeneration X (Shawn Michaels and Triple H) placed all five members into a crate stamped "OVW, Louisville, Kentucky" because that's where WWE's developmental territory was. It was WWE's way of doing a "wink, wink" to the fans to say that's the last we'll see of this group. It was a group that was such a joke that WWE never mentions them anymore. Nobody is ever going to bring up the fact that Dolph Ziggler was in the group either.