Wrestling factions are one of the most exciting things about wrestling. Factions allow multiple wrestlers to be featured on the television at the same time and get their career moving. For instance, all of the three Shield members in WWE were unknown to many wrestling fans, but when they debuted together on the main roster, they became one of the biggest acts in wrestling first as a team and then as individual superstars.
But because factions can have almost any amount of wrestlers, things can get a little bloated. Multiple great factions added wrestlers that just didn't make sense. These were lame decisions that, in one way or the other, hurt the faction's credibility overall.
9 Jeff Jarrett (Bullet Club)
Right now, The Bullet Club is the greatest wrestling faction in wrestling. Many wrestlers have been a part of this group such as Finn Balor and AJ Styles. But there was a time when Jeff Jarrett was also a Bullet Club member.
He started appearing alongside the other Bullet Club members but most fans weren't happy with this addition. Jarrett joining the faction didn't go anywhere. Thankfully, most fans have already forgotten about this.
8 Manu (Legacy)
Randy Orton's faction The Legacy started with him, Cody Rhodes, and Ted DiBiase Jr. - all of them being second-generation wrestlers. Somewhere down the line, Manu and Sim Snuka also joined the group. But Manu's addition was the worst among them.
He didn't serve any purpose in the group, didn't have the in-ring skills to get by, and also had a bad attitude which saw him getting released from WWE shortly thereafter.
7 Hornswoggle (DX)
All of the original D-Generation X members along with The New Age Outlaws are now Hall of Famers in WWE. DX recruited many members over time, but one member was pretty forgettable.
While Hornswoggle was always an entertaining act in WWE and other wrestling promotions, he wasn't the kind of wrestler that fans would take seriously in a legendary group like D-Generation X. Hornswoggle's run with the faction was short-lived and unmemorable.
6 Jason Jordan (The Shield)
Jason Jordan became an honorary Shield member after Dean Ambrose suffered a tricep injury in 2018. Jordan was looking for some attention from the fans, so he started tagging with Seth Rollins and even had a run with the Raw Tag Team Titles for some time.
Unfortunately, Jordan's time with The Shield wasn't as great as his time as a member of American Alpha. He never became an official member of the group but this would have probably changed if Jordan hadn't suffered a career-ending injury.
5 Steve McMichael & Paul Roma (Four Horsemen)
The Four Horsemen started back in 1985 in Jim Crockett's Mid Atlantic Wrestling that later became WCW. The original members were Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and Ole Anderson.
Both Paul Roma and Steve McMichael joined the faction at one point in the 1990s. And both of them were lame additions to the group. Roma had no charisma whatsoever and should not have been in the faction in the first place. The same goes for Steve, a standout performer for Chicago Bears during Super Bowl XX, who was a terrible heel.
4 Braun Strowman (The Wyatt Family)
The Wyatt Family originally started in WWE's developmental brand FCW that later became NXT. Wyatt was the leader of the faction and only Luke Harper and Eric Rowan were a part of the group when it began.
Over the years, stars like Braun Strowman, Randy Orton, and Daniel Bryan also joined The Wyatt Family for some time. But Strowman was possibly the worst member of the group. Orton and Bryan both joined the faction due to storyline purposes, but Braun didn't do a lot until WWE split him from The Wyatt Family and pushed him as a singles wrestler
3 Sting (The Wolfpac)
Originally, Sting was going to be unveiled as the third man in WCW's New World Order. The plans were changed at the last minute when Hulk Hogan asked Eric Bischoff to make him the leader instead.
Sting was nWo's biggest rival for quite some time which is why it didn't make sense for him to join a nWo spin-off faction, The Wolfpac, and share the group with the very people who were against him at one point. A better idea would've been for Sting to start his own faction without the New World Order branding.
2 David Otunga (Nexus)
Wade Barrett's Nexus was an instant success in WWE. But sadly, Nexus couldn't retain its main event status due to the burial by John Cena.
While most of the Nexus members were great, David Otunga was one example who just didn't fit in the group. Otunga didn't have the same in-ring skills as the other members of the faction, which is why WWE gave up on him as a wrestler and instead made him a color commentator.
1 Mideon (Ministry Of Darkness)
Mideon's WWE run was pretty much forgettable. First, he played the role of a play pig farmer as Phineas Godwinn. Then, he failed as a member of The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness, and later, he adopted the Naked Mideon gimmick that was one of the most embarrassing moments of his career.
As part of Undertaker's faction, Mideon didn't do a lot of things except for taking losses from babyface teams.