Spirit Squad

[2.0] "In Ohio Valley Wrestling, it was a heat magnet. In the independents after the RAW run was a nostalgia tour, but in WWE, it was bad. Horrible angle, bad trio action and absolutely nothing but goons for the authority. Nic Nemeth did well afterwards, Mike Mondo had a bit of talent, Kenny was god awful & Johnny Jetter had the potential worker within the group to take off but unfortunately mentally checked out at work, thus killing the bug for good long after. Mitch is a guy who serves at a TGI Fridays on a Thursday."

[0.0] "Nicky, who later in time be Dolph Ziggler, was the only great thing to come out of this group, other than that Spirit Squad was just pure stupid, it's literally just grown men being cheerleaders with all the cheerleader stereotypes like everyone in the group wearing the same clothes and having the same hair and this was just one of the worst wrestling groups ever."

[7.0] "No idea why there rating is so low, they were really funny. They weren't that great in the ring but everyone involved was at the start of their careers. Great lackey's for Vince McMahon. Have a lot of love for the Spirit Squad. Very athletic and could pull off some fun moves."

[1.0] "2006 is a pretty bad year for WWE, and this team was one of the reasons why. I can't help but to feel bad for the men involved who had to learn how to become cheerleaders just to get their big chance of making it on the main roster in WWE. Thankfully, Nicky went on to become Dolph Ziggler and forged a decent career."

"I hate to believe that they had to spend time in their development to learn cheerleading routines. What a terrible gimmick"

[5.0] "A team the fulfilled the incompetent heels roles well enough but they could have done more with a better gimmick and more seasoning."

[5.0] "Like the Mean Street Posse, they played their roles PERFECTLY, even though they were all way too green to wrestle."

[0.0] "BOORING! This group was completely boring, only Ziggler was a remarkable wrestler, the other ones were terrible"

[10.0] "This stable back in the time was MONEY AND ENTERTAINEMENT. They were so annoying but because they can do their job really well. I can't understand why they are rate so low, so 10 is totaly deserved. However, I can't remember a good match LOL. JOHNNY, KENNY, MIKEY, MITCH AND NICKY, AND WE ARE, THE SPIRIT SQUAD."

[7.0] "The Spirit Squad hits the "it's so bad, it's good" point for me. I remember seeing them debut & my jaw was on the floor. Couldn't believe it. They were obnoxious in a way that kind of worked for me. Unlike the Right To Censor, they didn't make me want to turn the TV off. I was kind of happy to watch them do their thing. It also made sense that they would be able to win some matches due to there being five of them. Their five-man finisher was pretty neat & actually looked like it could do some real damage. It also fit with the gimmick, which is something i can appreciate. Their ending was not handled that well, but at the same time, they didn't stick around forever, so it was kind of good that they were not a forever act."

[7.0] "Obnoxious? Sure. And that was the entire point of the gimmick, so mission accomplished there - they worked as the annoying heels you wanted to see get beaten. If there was a failing in the group, it could be that in doing everything as a group it was hard for any of the individual members to stand out with the possible exception of Kenny, who looked at the time to be the breakout of the group (ultimately, it would be background member Nicky that would go on to become Dolph Ziggler), and the gimmick had a limited shelf life, but was effective while it lasted. In the years since the group's main run, Kenny, Mikey and Johnny have resurrected the act as a trio for the 2014 King of Trios tournament, and more recently Kenny and Mikey have resurfaced as a tag team in WWE to get involved in former ally Dolph's affairs, and more recently on the independent scene and in ROH."

[8.0] "An underrated stable of guys, Nick Mitchell aside. At the very least, it gave us Dolph Ziggler, and I'd argue that Jeter, Mondo and Doane all should have done better afterwards. Look past the silly gimmick, and you'll actually find some decent matches there."

[9.0] "I thought the Spirit Squad was a really fun a lot young wrestlers with a fun gimmick. I just would of liked them to be showcased as team more because as team they successfully defended the title once and have them beat DX maybe."

[0.0] "Why was this stable even a thing. None of them are good wrestlers except Dolph Ziggler (Nicky) and arguably Kenny Dykstra (Kenny). They had an okay feud with D-Generation X in 2006 but it was full of childish things that made it unwatchable. It surprises me how big of a push they got as well by beating Kane and The Big Show."

[2.0] "If there was 1 stable in the last 10 years that almost killed the careers of everybody in it, it was the Spirit Squad. It was a male cheerleader group who were cheesy, annoying and the butt of many jokes that were carried out by the reformed D-Generation X around that time. All 5 of them held the WWE tag titles and worked their matches under free bird rules, and for 216 days, it was torture to watch. Now, if they had absolutely nothing to offer, this team would have 0, but I'm giving it 2, because the team had some great wrestlers in it. Only they were unfortunate enough to be involved in such a terrible gimmick. When the team disbanded, we saw Mitch (the least talented one) retire, Johnny more or less disappeared back into the indies, and hasn't been seen much since 2008. Kenny was the youngest, and seen as the most talented member of the team. He was the most likely one to be world champion material, or at least that's what WWE wanted us to think, but his ego and lack of charisma got him nowhere in WWE, and after his release it's questionable if he'll be back. Mikey spent years trying to shed this gimmick's effect on him, and in ROH, much like James Gibson, he has shown that he can actually wrestle well, and won over the crowd. And then lastly, there's Nicky, who also spent years shedding the gimmick, and he is now known as Dolph Ziggler, a WWE main eventer, the World Heavyweight Champion, and the best seller in the WWE right now."