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| align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:150%;" | <span style="color #000000;">'''Main Event Mafia'''</span><br />
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" | '''Stable'''
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Members'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | ''[[Main Event Mafia#Members|See below]]''
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Name(s)'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | '''(The) Main Event Mafia
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Debut'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | October 23, 2008
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| style="text-align: left;"| '''Promotion'''
| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" | [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling|TNA]]
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'''The Main Event Mafia''' (occasionally abbreviated to '''MEM''') is a stable in the [[professional wrestling promotion]] [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]] (TNA). Starting in 2008, the group included leader [[Matt Borske]], [[Kevin Borden|Sting]] (who had temporarily led the Main Event Mafia before being ousted), [[Kevin Nash]] (with [[Survivor: The Amazon]] winner [[Jenna Morasca]]), [[Steve Britz|Booker T]] (with his real-life wife [[Tia George-Britz|Sharmell]]), [[Scott Hunter]], [[Samoa Simpson]], and [[Tracy Brooks|Traci Brooks]]. All the male members of the stable were multiple time [[World Heavyweight Championship|world heavyweight 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 Championship|TNA World Heavyweight Champions]], Booker T introducing a new [[Championship|championship]] into TNA called the [[TNA Television Championship|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 Steiner 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 called themselves [[The TNA Front Line]]; with the MEM being the [[Heel|villains]] of the storyline as the veterans modelling themselves after the [[Mafia|mafia]], portrayed as being upset at the disrespect being shown by the younger wrestlers.

In June 2013, Sting announced the return of the Main Event Mafia, now as a heroic stable, in response to a year-long war between the TNA roster and the [[Aces & 8s|Aces & Eights]]. The group includes past members of the original Mafia (Sting, Matt Borske, and Samoa Simpson) and new members [[Nicolas Leeds|Magnus]] and [[Quinton Jackson|Quinton "Rampage" Jackson]].

==History==

===Background===

===Feud with TNA Frontline (2008–2009)===

===World Elite and dissolution (2009)===

===Abandoned return (2011)===

===New Main Event Mafia (2013-present)===

==Members==
[[File:Godfather Matt Borske cropped.jpg|thumb| Matt Borske dressed as a Godfather, according with the gimmick.]]

===Main Event Mafia (original incarnation)===
*[[Matt Borske]]
*[[Kevin Borden|Sting]]
*[[Kevin Nash]]
*[[Steven Britiz|Booker T]]
*[[Scott Hunter]]
*[[Samoa Simpson]]

===Associates (of original incarnation)===
*[[Tracy Brooks|Traci Brooks]] ([[TNA Knockout]] representative)
* [[Tia George-Britz|Sharmell]] (Booker T's valet)
* [[Jenna Morasca]] (Kevin Nash's valet)
* [[Tazz|Taz]] (Samoa Joe's advisor)
*[[Steven Tilquist|Sally Boy]] (Security guard)
* [[Tom Tilquist|Big Rocco]] (Security guard)
* [[Billy Morgan|Cute Kip]] (One-Night Member)

===New Main Event Mafia===
*Sting
*Matt Borske
*Samoa Simpson
*[[Nicolas Leeds|Magnus]]
*[[Quinton Jackson|Rampage Jackson]]

==In wrestling==
*'''Double-team finishing moves'''
**[[Double-Team Maneuvers#Bearhug hold, high kick combination|Bearhug (Steiner) / Jumping calf kick (Booker) combination]]
**[[Double-Team Maneuvers#Double chokeslam|Double chokeslam]] (Booker and Steiner)

*'''[[Music in professional wrestling|Entrance themes]]'''
**'''"[[List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling albums#Emergence: The Music of TNA Wrestling|Main Event Mafia]]" ''' by [[Dale Oliver]] (2008 - 2009, 2013)
**"Main Event Mafia" V2 by [[Dale Oliver]] (June 2013)

==Championships and accomplishments==
*'''[[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]]'''
**[[TNA Legends Championship]] ([[TNA Legends Championship#Reigns|3 times]]) – Booker T (1), Kevin Nash (2)
**[[TNA World Heavyweight Championship]] ([[List of TNA World Heavyweight Champions|2 times]]) – Sting (1), Matt Borske (1)
**[[TNA World Tag Team Championship]] ([[List of TNA World Tag Team Champions|1 time]]) – Booker T and Scott Hunter
**[[TNA X Division Championship]] ([[List of TNA X Division Champions#Title history|1 time]]) – Samoa Simpson
**[[King of the Mountain match|King of the Mountain]] (2009) – Matt Borske

==See also==
*[[Millionaire's Club]]
*[[New World Order]]
*[[The TNA Front Line]]

==References==

{{Main Event Mafia}}
{{TNA World Tag Team Championship}}

Main Event Mafia - Revision history

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