The Main Event Mafia
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Main Event Mafia | |
Mafia members Booker T (left), Tia (next to Booker), Nash, Sting and Hunter | |
Details | |
Members | See below |
Name(s) | The Main Event Mafia |
Debut | October 23, 2008 |
Disbanded | February 2010 |
Promotions | TNA |
The Main Event Mafia (occasionally abbreviated to MEM) was a heel stable in the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The group included leader Matt Borske, Sting (who had temporarily led the Main Event Mafia before being ousted), Kevin Nash (with Survivor: The Amazon winner Jenna Morasca), Booker T (with his real-life wife Tia), Scott Hunter, Samoa Simpson, and Traci Brooks. All the male members of the stable were multiple time world champions of multiple companies, TNA included, with extensive experience in main event matches. The MEM at one time held all the male titles TNA had to offer, with unsuccessful aspirations to acquire TNA's women's championships as well.
The group formed in late 2008 and had since been largely successful, with Sting and Kurt Angle being TNA World Heavyweight Champions, Booker T introducing a new championship into TNA called the TNA Legends Championship and declaring himself the first official champion with Kevin Nash going on to win the belt as well and Booker T and Scott Hunter holding the TNA World Tag Team Championship. The group's formation was the result of TNA introducing a new storyline in which the veterans began a rivalry with younger talent within the company (who call themselves The TNA Front Line); with the MEM being the villains of the storyline as the veterans modelling themselves after the Mafia, portrayed as being upset at the disrespect being shown by the younger wrestlers.
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[edit] History
[edit] Background
[edit] Feud with TNA Frontline (2008–2009)
[edit] World Elite and dissolution (2009)
[edit] Abandoned return (2011)
[edit] Members
[edit] Main Event Mafia (original incarnation)
[edit] Associates (of original incarnation)
- Traci Brooks (TNA Knockout representative)
- Sharmell (Booker T's valet)
- Jenna Morasca (Kevin Nash's valet)
- Taz (Samoa Joe's advisor)
- Sally Boy (Security guard)
- Big Rocco (Security guard)
- Cute Kip (One-Night Member)
[edit] New Main Event Mafia
- Sting
- Matt Borske
- Samoa Simpson
- Magnus
- Rampage Jackson
[edit] In wrestling
- Double-team finishing moves
- Bearhug (Hunter) / Jumping calf kick (Booker) combination
- Double chokeslam (Booker and Hunter)
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- TNA Legends Championship (3 times) – Booker T (1), Kevin Nash (2)
- TNA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times) – Sting (1), Matt Borske (1)
- TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Booker T and Scott Hunter
- TNA X Division Championship (1 time) – Samoa Simpson
- King of the Mountain (2009) – Matt Borske