Main Event Mafia

[5.0] "Conceptually amazing. It did get a little convoluted sometimes but having legends of wrestling all together in one stable was a great visual. Admittedly they couldn't go as well as they could in their primes (with the exception of Kurt Angle) but their aura alone carried them even further."

[5.0] "Really solid concept (just a heel millionaires club from WCW) but it didn't really work in practice and got no one over at all, so yeah, bit of a waste of time and very little achieved. It's mainly because the booking team couldn't figure out who to push as the face against the MEM."

[8.0] "The concept was better than the actual group but theyw eren't bad and they fit together really well."

[5.0] "The Main Event Mafia was a really good idea on paper, but in usual TNA fashion at this time, the booking ruined them, as they never faced a real comeuppance from any of the TNA originals, and one of the former members, Sting, was the one who dethroned Angle instead of AJ, who should have been the one to do it. Also, having Samoa Joe join the group was really bad, as he was a TNA original and probably Angle's biggest rival before the turn. MEM gets a 5 because it is still better than the Aces and Eights and miles better than Immortal."

[5.0] "A faction which seemed to have endless potential but they quickly devolved into a bunch of old timers being annoying as hell."

[8.0] "In hindsight, I think this was really quite good. Established vets and legends who could pretty much still go at a reasonably high level (relative to their prime). Allowed fan favourites who were out of favour with the WWE to have some notable title reigns towards the end of their careers, they even introduced a new championship (the TNA Legends Championship) in order to do so, which I think is preferably to them making Nash the X Division Champion in 2009. They took up a lot of television time but Sting and Angle always did while Booker T was fresh of WWE TV where he had been both World Champion and King of the Ring in the recent past and it's not like the MEM never put anyone over."

[0.0] "I try to be positive on the internet, but this was the thing that pushed me away from TNA. It seemed like the on screen incarnation of TNA's real problem, putting former stars at the top of the card instead of focusing on the newer and more exciting wrestlers. The Angle/Sting power struggle was annoying and the stables expansion beyond the original 5 members made the group so much worse."

[2.0] "Fans started coming to TNA because we wanted something different to what WWE was offering. So what do they do? Sign every ex-WWE guy they can & push them down our throats. I wanted to see non-WWE guys like AJ, Aries, or Daniels. But TNA didn't want to give us that, which is a big reason why the company ultimately failed. Main Event Mafia was a representation of everything I DIDN'T want from TNA."

[2.0] "I thought the Main Event Mafia were one of the worst stables of all time. All it did was highlight one of TNA's legitimate problems, that they focused way too much on continuing to put over veterans whose time had come and gone instead of creating new stars. This could have worked if Kurt and Sting were the only people being pushed and the others were just outside enforcers but they weren't. They also had no legitimate enemies and having Joe joined made absolutely no sense."

[6.0] "This was a good idea but for me never really did a lot as in terms of entertaining me. They were a heel faction of the supposed best in the wrestling world but the majority of members were past their prime and that's the only reason it wasn't that good to me."