The Main Event Mafia is getting back together in Minneapolis, and it’s a first for the faction.
WrestleCon has announced that Scott Steiner, Booker T, Sting, Kurt Angle, and Kevin Nash will appear together on Friday, August 1 for what the convention is billing as the first official group photo in the stable’s history. All five have worked conventions on their own before, but they’ve never been advertised together under the Main Event Mafia name.
The reunion takes place at the Hilton Minneapolis as part of WrestleCon’s Destination Minneapolis event, which runs July 31 through August 2. A group photo with all five costs $280, and the session is scheduled for Friday only. WrestleCon promoted the announcement with artwork showing the five in suits against the Minneapolis skyline, a nod to the group’s original look. The convention shares the weekend with SummerSlam, which runs August 1 and 2 at U.S. Bank Stadium.
The Main Event Mafia’s TNA Run
The group formed on the October 23, 2008 episode of TNA Impact!, with Angle fronting a unit of veterans who insisted the promotion’s younger stars owed them respect. That premise fueled a long rivalry with the TNA Front Line. The five modeled themselves on mob bosses and worked in tailored suits, which is exactly why the reunion artwork leans on the same imagery.
They collected most of TNA’s gold along the way. Sting and Angle both held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during the run, and Booker T introduced the TNA Legends Championship before naming himself its first champion. The original incarnation ran until October 2009, with Sting exiting in June of that year, and Christian Cage, Samoa Joe, and Traci Brooks all folded in at various points. Sting and Angle later revived the name in 2013 alongside Samoa Joe, Magnus, and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Friday’s appearance is strictly a fan photo op, not a televised angle, and no promotion has attached a storyline to it. But for fans who grew up on TNA’s late-2000s boom, getting all five originals in one frame for the first time is a genuine piece of history.
