9 Greatest Factions Never To Appear In WWE

Unlike most wrestling factions, The Varsity Club put their money where their mouth was. Though the group originally started out in UWF - bizarrely including a rookie, ripped Sting as its monster muscle - it was in Jim Crockett Promotions where they earned their diploma. University alumni Rick Steiner and Mike Rotundo were united by Kevin Sullivan on the basis of their legitimate collegiate wrestling acumen - for which they had the letterman jackets as proof (Sullivan's claim, on the other hand, was bumfluff).

Competition was naturally rife in a team made up of college athletes, and slowly dissent began to grow between Steiner and Rotundo about who was the Club's captain. Things eventually turned sour, as Steiner quit class, culminating in a Starrcade '88 blow-off. But the Club's coach Kevin Sullivan had a new recruit: University of Oklahoma alumnus Steve Williams.

When the Four Horsemen disbanded, WCW's main event scene was there for the taking, and Sullivan was keen to grasp it, drafting University of Georgia graduate Dan Spivey in to bolster the Varsity Club's ranks. Things didn't quite go to plan. Williams & Rotunda's subsequent tag title victory was reversed, and soon the club began to disintegrate; Williams left the company, Spivey made a new pal in Sid Vicious, and Rotunda, for some reason, started living on a boat.

Just under a decade later, Rotunda and Steiner enjoyed a high-school reunion of sorts, accompanied by inconsequential cheerleader and feline soundalike Leia Meow. It didn't last long; it was a totally different era, and The Varsity Club's literal old-school mentality didn't fit. A feud with the Harris twins hardly helped.