9 Stables WWE Debuted In The WORST Way Possible
7. X-Factor
The known also-ran of the infamous Kliq, the inclusion of a D-Generation-X member that the fanbase were openly sick of a good year before this spinoff group formed, and even the use of the letter X right around the time an ill-fated football league was about to make it feel extremely dated - X-Factor was doomed before it got off the ground.
Justin Credible was one of the last major Extreme Championship Wrestling names to arrive in WWE before the Philadelphia organisation was conclusively finished, but his arrival alongside X-Pac to deck Chris Jericho on the February 12th Raw was as much a wink and a nudge to those that knew he'd been an associate of Sean Waltman during the pair's last WWE runs as anything else. By the time Albert joined in March, ECW really was done, as evidenced by Paul Heyman calling the action in his earliest days with the company.
In classic Philadelphia fashion, the former T&A man's negatives were obscured behind an obvious positive - his size. He towered over X-Pac and Credible and helped them decimate The Hardy Boyz, but the addition brought with it subtraction. Far from a dominant trio, one newcomer and one company legend looked like they couldn't get anything done without a meathead on his third rebadging. From stumbling out of the blocks to disbanding without mention, X-Factor went 50/50 in most of the programmes and matches and remembered more for an Uncle Kracker that was as irritating as it was catchy.