3 Makeshift WWE factions that failed and 2 that succeeded

Modified Aug 23, 2019 16:12 GMT

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#1 Failed: 3MB

Looking back, some of the matches and segments involving 3MB members Drew McIntyre, Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal between 2012-14 were actually somewhat entertaining.

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But, when you consider that Mahal went on to become WWE Champion in 2017 and that many people now perceive McIntyre as a realistic World Champion one day, it is baffling that WWE’s decision-makers put the three men in a comedy faction and turned them into perennial losers almost every time they appeared on television.

The 3MB idea was all down to Slater but, as he revealed on Edge & Christian’s Pod of Awesomeness in May 2019, he wanted them to be a “cool” faction and not a group that nobody took seriously.

Interestingly, Slater also mentioned that his original pitch was to have Dean Ambrose, EC3 and Fandango alongside him, but he was given Mahal and McIntyre instead!

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Danny Hart has been one of the most active writers at Sportskeeda since he began working for the WWE section of the site in October 2017.

Danny currently writes around 100 articles per month about WWE. Before joining Sportskeeda, he worked for seven years as a writer and editor for the football website Goal.com. He also reported live from Premier League stadiums around England.

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