In professional wrestling, a stable is a group of wrestlers within a promotion who have a common element -- friendships, either real or storyline, a manager who manages all of them, or a common storyline, which puts them together as a unit (recent examples include Evolution, La Résistance, The Cabinet, The Dudley Boyz, and others). Often the loudest of them appears in promos, occasionally with another wrestler whose gimmick is to be largely silent, perhaps even mute, but nonetheless nodding or gesturing in wild agreement. // Professional wrestling is a form of performance art where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches. ... A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that performs regular shows involving professional wrestling for monetary gain. ... In professional wrestling, an angle is a fictional storyline (the wrestler Kurt Angles name is a coincidence). ... In professional wrestling, a manager is a non-wrestler character who is paired with a wrestler. ... Evolution. ... This article is about a professional wrestling stable. ... The Cabinet: (from left to right) Doug Basham, John Bradshaw Layfield, Orlando Jordan, Amy Weber, Danny Basham The Cabinet is a professional wrestling stable that is based on World Wrestling Entertainments SmackDown! brand. ... L to R: Sign Guy, Bubba Ray, Big Dick & DVon Dudley & Joel Gertner The Dudley Boyz, Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley, are one of the most successful tag teams in wrestling history. ... In professional wrestling, a promo is slang for promotional interview, a dialogue or monologue used to advance a storyline. ... In professional wrestling, a gimmick is slang that refers to a wrestlers on-screen personality. ...

Typically, the use of the term is restricted to groups that exist within the scripted storylines of a promotion. One of the more famous groups of wrestlers in recent times, The Clique of WWF in the mid-1990s, is more accurately called a "backstage group", because the WWF never directly acknowledged the group's existence in its storylines. However, several members of the Clique did form the core of the promotion's D-Generation X stable. The Clique HHH, Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall & Sean Waltman The Clique (sometimes referred to as the Kliq) was a backstage group in the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) of the mid-1990s, made up of the following members: Michael Hickenbottom (Shawn Michaels) Paul Levesque (then Hunter... // World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently the largest in North America. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... The Original D-Generation X. From L-R: Rick Rude, Chyna, Shawn Michaels, and Triple H. D-Generation X (a. ...

See also

• List of professional wrestling stables
• Professional wrestling slang