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Despite numerous memorable trios working for the promotion, the WWE has never introduced Six-Man Tag Team titles. Although, the belts could have been perfect for the Gang Warfare era of WWE, which saw factions like Nation of Domination, The Ministry of Darkness, The Corporation and D-Generation X.
In 1955, the NWA introduced the first-ever Six-Man Tag Team, or Trios, Championship alongside their singles titles and two-man tag team titles. The belt originated out of the NWA Mid-America region and was held by the likes of Yukon Eric, Jackie Fargo, Paul Orndorff, The Road Warriors and The Russians.
Today, Mexican promotions CMLL and AAA have trios belts. In Japan, NJPW has the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championships and as does Dragon Gate. In the United States, only ROH has a Six-Man title that was introduced in 2016.
These days, there are fewer stables in the WWE but still a few three-man groups or stables that would be perfectly suited to holding or competing for a trios title if one was to be introduced.
Given that Vince McMahon, reportedly, isn't a big fan of stables and factions, it's highly unlikely that the promotion will introduce Six-Man titles. However, if it does, these would be stables and factions that suiting it best.
#6 The Hurt Business (WWE Monday Night RAW)
One of the newest stables on this list, the Hurt Business is made up of three genuinely talented wrestling veterans in Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley, and MVP.
The group has been an excellent part of the WWE Monday Night RAW roster, both in their feud with Apollo and dominant appearances on RAW Underground. The group is based off MVP's stable in TNA and ROH called the Beat Down Clan, which also included Kenny King, Samoa Joe, Low Ki, Hernandez, and Homicide.
Despite being a three-man group, they are being kept away from the more youthful RAW tag team division which includes the likes of the Street Profits, the Viking Raiders and Andrade & Garza. If WWE were to introduce Six-Man Tag Team Championships, The Hurt Business would be a great team to hold the belts first.
#5 Imperium (WWE NXT/NXT UK)
Former NXT Tag Team Champions Imperium are made up of NXT UK Champion WALTER as well as Fabian Aichner, Marcel Barthel, Alexander Wolfe. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown in Europe and the UK, the group hasn't been together for a while in WWE.
Barthel and Aichner were able to make it into the US though, and then defeated Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher for the NXT Tag Team Titles. Thatcher, a member of the stable when they performed on the independent scene, was a last-minute replacement for Riddle's original partner Pete Dunne.
While WALTER is a firm main event level talent, Aichner, Barthel and Wolfe would do well with a trios title to compete for. Given their acumen as Tag Team Champions, and Wolfe's experience as a part of the Sanity stable, the three would be legitimate Trios champions if WWE introduces them.
Given that WALTER has expressed the fact that he would like to stay in the UK, it would allow Wolfe, Barthel and Aichner to perform in the US for the belt.
#4 Legado Del Fantasma (WWE NXT)
Legado del Fantasma has established itself as one of the best three-man groups going in WWE at the moment, despite only being introduced recently on NXT.
The previously-masked El Hijo del Fantasma won the tournament to crown an Interim Cruiserweight Title. After the tournament, he unmasked himself to be the leader of a new stable alongside Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza.
Following the tournament, El Hijo del Fantasma cut a promo declaring himself to be Santos Escobar. He stated that his mission was to bring honor back to Lucha Libre in WWE. One way that Escobar could bring Mexican style wrestling to WWE would be through the introduction of a Trios title.
Both major Mexican promotions Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide have active and popular Trios Championships.
El Hijo del Fantsma, or Santos Escobar, is also a former CMLL Trios Champion alongside Hector Garza and La Mascara.
#3 Lucha House Party (WWE Smackdown)
On the subject of Latin American wrestlers, Lucha House Party appear to be great wrestlers who are unable to string any sort of momentum together in WWE.
They have had limited championship opportunities, mainly losing in multi-tag team matches for the Tag Team titles. The trio were also involved in a one sided feud against Lars Sullivan, where they lost a series of three-on-one handicap matches.
In recent weeks, tension between the trio has been teased but they are still together as a group. The three are extremely entertaining together but due to being a three man group, they very rarely are able to show this off. Nothing would bring the group together and allow them to show off their abilities as the introduction of a trios division.
Gran Metalik has held both the CMLL World and Mexican Trios titles, while Lince Dorado won Chikara's King of Trios tournament in 2008 alongside Sin Cara and a Mexican wrestler called El Pantera.
# 2 Undisputed Era (WWE NXT)
Much like Imperium, the four-man Undisputed Era is strong enough to support a main champion in Adam Cole, while competing for a secondary Trios Championship in WWE.
In 2019/2020, every member in the Undisputed Era held a title at the same time. Adam Cole held the NXT Championship, Roderick Strong held the NXT North American title, while Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly held the NXT Tag Team titles.
While Cole is still challenging to regain the NXT title again, Strong, O'Reilly and Fish aren't a part of any title pictures at the moment, having lost the NXT North American and Tag Team titles earlier in 2020.
The Undisputed Era would be another great team to introduce the first ever WWE or NXT Six-Man titles. Adam Cole participated in the Ring of Honor tournament to crown the first ever Six-Man Champions as a part of Bullet Club, but they lost in the first round.
#1 The New Day (WWE Smackdown)
The New Day is one of the most successful three-man teams in the history of professional wrestling. The team has held numerous tag team titles in WWE, and frequently defending them through the Freebird rules.
The group has been somewhat crippled recently due to the injury of Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston, but with Woods due back soon, we could see the return of New Day sooner rather than later.
While the team has previously dominated the tag team division on both SmackDown and RAW, it has also helped Kofi Kingston win his first-ever WWE title and currently sees Big E in the middle of a singles push of his own.
However, with Woods return from injury soon and Kingston also recovering from his own injury, the New Day could help establish the first-ever trios title in the history of the company and cement its legacy as the best three-man group of all time.
