One MIND-BLOWING Secret From Every Year Of WWE History
15. 2010 - An Abandoned Stable idea
When something gets hot in wrestling, everybody tends to follow the trend.
As an example, the Legacy faction was the X-Factor to Evolution’s D-Generation X. An attempt to do for Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, Jr. what Evolution did for Randy Orton and Batista, it didn’t take. Cody needed to get away from what was a woefully counterproductive WWE system to “evolve”, where DiBiase, Jr. was simply not good enough. The Legacy stable “exploded” at WrestleMania XXVI in a drab Triple Threat match about which very few people in the stadium cared.
If Legacy was X-Factor, the group that was pitched as DiBiase, Jr.’s next star vehicle was closer to the Corre. Or the Final Testament.
The plan, following the Legacy split, was for DiBiase, Jr. to lead his own stable - which was wildly ambitious. Evolution only worked and Legacy only worked in theory because each stable was led by an actual star worth following. The scrapped ‘Fortunate Sons’ stable of DiBiase, Jr., his brother Brett and Joe Hennig was meant to be a unit of guys who were able to break onto the scene via nepotism.
Which makes the fact that it never did end up happening all the more funny: they didn’t even have that going for them.