9 Stables WWE Debuted In The WORST Way Possible
8. The Corre
The Corre was, from the off, a fatally flawed concept.
Wade Barrett's former Nexus group had been so comprehensively humiliated by John Cena in 2010 before Barrett himself lost control of the stable to CM Punk that the very notion of bringing a crew together seemed narratively ludicrous. Having failed in his world domination attempts on Raw, Wade jumped to SmackDown to give his singles career a reboot with a January 14th 2011 match against The Big Show...for a few minutes until some familiar faces appeared.
Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel's arrival triggered a disqualification, resulting in Barrett losing his first match as leader of whatever this hodgepodge was going to be called. Then, Show battered all of them anyway to try and big up the surprise twist - Ezekiel Jackson was the fourth man, with none of the Nexus stink on him. After a legitimately awkward 30 second stare-down between Jackson and Big Show, goons Barrett, Slater and Gabriel recovered enough to take one more kicking but distract Show enough to eat a slam from Big 'Zeke.
They stood tall-ish to close the segment, taking the Corre name the following week in another pathetically weak exposition dump about why these storyline losers might not be quite so terrible second time around. SmackDown General Manager Teddy Long interrupted, and got the last word, noting that he wasn't in the mood for anybody running roughshod on the blue brand, and over the next several months, the group...followed his instructions and didn't.