5 Biggest Factions In Impact Wrestling History (& 5 With The Fewest Members)

Stables are a foremost important factor in the success of modern and historical professional wrestling. Featured more heavily throughout the 1980s and 1990s than they are in the modern era, stables have been the starting stone for many top athletes that went on to achieve great success, be that World Championships, WrestleMania headliners, or Hall of Fame inductions. Roman Reigns (The Shield), Triple H (D-Generation X), and Bret Hart (The Hart Foundation) are prime examples of this, reaching a larger audience through their work in their respective stables.

The same rule applies to Impact Wrestling. Having hosted a horde of stables throughout their lifespan, Impact is no stranger to a bolstered stable accentuating the careers of their franchise players but sometimes, an abundant membership isn't always in play.

10 Least: Triple X (3)

Triple X (Christopher Daniels, Elix Skipper, Low Ki) stand together in the ring of a TNA show

Triple X - oft-stylized as XXX when they were feeling naughty - consisted of three members, hence their collective name. Christopher Daniels, Elix Skipper, and Low Ki, who was later recast as Senshi, made up the unit, having originated from the Vince Russo-led supergroup Sports Entertainment Xtreme; S.E.X for short, naturally.

Capturing the NWA Worlds Tag Team Championships thrice that saw them utilize the Triple X Rule (their take on the Freebird Rule), Triple X enjoyed three stints together that were dominated by the usual two-man pairing of Daniels and Skipper lighting up Impact's doubles division, with their Turning Point Steel Cage match vs. America's Most Wanted being voted Impact's Match of the Year for 2004.

9 Most: Main Event Mafia (15)

The Main Event Mafia (Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, Booker T, Scott Steiner, Samoa Joe, Taz) stand together on the ramp at TNA Victory Road 2009

Technically, The Main Event Mafia has hosted fifteen members throughout Impact's storied history, but this came in the form of two separate stints for the group. Between 2008 and 2009, the original was led by Kurt Angle, with fellow wrestling luminaries Sting, Kevin Nash, Booker T, and Scott Steiner following suit. Samoa Joe joined the squad in the summer of 2009, while Christian Cage also served a brief stint, too. Numerous associates made up the numbers for the first M.E.M, including Taz, Sharmell, Traci Brooks, Jenna Morasca, and Main Event Mafia's personal security team.

The second version of the group, in 2013, saw Angle, Sting, and Joe all return, joined this time by Magnus and MMA star Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson as they defended the honour of Impact Wrestling against the Aces & Eights faction.

8 Least: Team Pacman (3)

Team Pacman (Adam Jones, Ron Killings) are interviewed backstage at a TNA show in 2007

An oft-forgotten celebrity crossover angle in pro wrestling saw Adam 'PacMan' Jones, a 13-season NFL cornerback best known for his time in the Cincinnati Bengals, sign on with Impact Wrestling to work what was first described as a lengthy angle that would see Jones involved in a slew of matches. This never occurred, sadly, as Jones was barred from getting physical.

The lack of physicality meant two running partners surrounded him to do all the heavy lifting for him. Ron Killings and Rasheed Lucius Creed - the future R-Truth and Xavier Woods, respectively - made up the wrestling portion of this short-lived trio. Amazingly, in spite of never performing a single offensive grapple, strike, or indeed anything, Adam Jones has a footnote reign as TNA World Tag Team Champion on his record.

7 Most: Planet Jarrett (18)

Planet Jarrett (Jeff Jarrett, Chris Harris, James Storm, Gail Kim) celebrate in the ring of a TNA show

Much like Kurt Angle did across 2007-2009, Jeff Jarrett embarked on a Triple H-like reign as TNA World Heavyweight Champion that resembled 'The Game's' Reign of Terror remarkably well, down to Jarrett having surrounded himself with a gang of goons to do the dirty work while he reigned supreme as the kingpin of TNA. Known as Planet Jarrett, the stable came together following the fall of Jarrett's original stable, The Kings of Wrestling, which saw 'Double J' united with former WCW colleagues Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.

Standing alongside Jeff Jarrett in Planet Jarrett, though, included the likes of America's Most Wanted, Abyss, Monty Brown, and Team Canada, itself a dominant faction from TNA's vast history of stables.

6 Least: The British Invasion (3)

The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams, Rob Terry) pose in the ring of a TNA show

Continuing the trope of lumping all roster members from a specific part of the world together, TNA debuted The British Invasion trio in 2009, consisting of Englishmen Doug Williams and Brutus Magnus, and their Welsh enforcer Rob Terry. The group would soon align themselves with Eric Young's World Elite faction, which consisted of TNA roster members from around the globe; Young himself hailed from Canada.

Holding the TNA World Tag Team Championships and the IWGP Tag Team Championships once apiece, The British Invasion had disbanded by early 2010, by which point Williams and Magnus had already ejected Terry from their clique.

5 Most: EV 2.0 (18)

Not one to miss out on the fun, Impact Wrestling promoted their own ECW tribute show as part of their Hard Justice series of pay-per-views. Rebranded to Hardcore Justice in August 2010, the event saw all manner of ex-ECW stalwarts - including headliners Rob Van Dam and Sabu - pay tribute to the brand that made them famous.

This didn't sit well with Immortal, though, who took umbrage with the ECW lot who, of the Hardcore Justice wrestlers that stuck around after the pay-per-view, would form the EV 2.0 collective. With RVD, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, The Full Blooded Italians, and, oddly, Brian Kendrick among the group's ranks, they boasted eighteen members in total.

4 Least: The Rising (3)

A forgotten TNA trio from the promotion's dying decade, The Rising were almost Shield-like in the aftermath, given the decorated careers each member went on to have. Consisting of Drew Galloway, Micah, and Eli Drake - now Drew McIntyre, Tanga Loa, and LA Knight, respectively - the trio was designed primarily to get Galloway over as a dominant babyface headliner in TNA, with his debut going down in Glasgow, Scotland to a raucous reaction.

The disbanding itself came as a result of a loss to MVP's Beat Down Clan stable in a Handicap Elimination match. Galloway and Drake subsequently captured the IMPACT World Championship, known as the GFW Global Championship when the latter ascended to championship status.

3 Most: Immortal (22)

Immortal (Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, AJ Styles, James Storm, Robert Roode, Kazarian, Rob Terry) pose in the ring of a TNA show

Technically cheating their way to the second-biggest group in Impact Wrestling history, Immortal's stacked twenty-two-person squad reached the upper echelon of supergroups through their association with the Ric Flair-led Fortune unit up until their February 2011 split from the stable, sans Flair.

Outside the AJ Styles, Kazarian, James Storm, and Robert Roode quartet, though, the Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff-fronted stable featured a horde of wrestling's most legendary figureheads, including Jeff Jarrett, Bully Ray, and Jeff Hardy, as well as veterans of Impact Wrestling, such as Abyss and Mr Anderson.

2 Least: Death Crew Council (3)

The Death Crew Council (James Storm, Bram, Eddie Kingston) stand over Eddie Edwards in the ring of an Impact Wrestling show in 2016

Sometimes, pro wrestlers will try something new, and it won't work, which is precisely what James Storm, Eddie Kingston, and Bram realized in 2016 upon forming The Death Crew Council. Coming together after weeks of vignettes depicting the originally masked trio promising to run amok, the gaggle of heavy-hitters were revealed as the men in black following Bound For Glory.

The DCC disbanded within less than a year of being on Impact's airwaves and made barely a dent in the foundation of the group's doubles division, opting to target lesser members of the roster, such as The Tribunal, rather than constantly chase the then-World Tag Team Champions, The Broken Hardyz.

1 Most: Sports Entertainment Xtreme (27)

Sports Entertainment Xtreme (Vince Russo, Sonny Siaki, Elix Skipper, others) stand in the ring of a TNA show

A Vince Russo-led brainchild, Sports Entertainment Xtreme were Impact's first major stable, forming in November 2002 when Russo revealed himself as the masked Mr Wrestling III persona. Playing out almost exactly like The nWo did in World Championship Wrestling, with an authority figure at the ship's helm and a glut of company stalwarts defecting to the Russo regime, the stable lasted until Vince Russo himself left TNA in March 2003.

The group laid the foundations for early-doors Impact Wrestling and helped begin the careers of many a company icon, including multi-time X Division Champions Christopher Daniels and Chris Sabin.