Fourtune

Fourtune is a villainous professional wrestling alliance in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It currently consists of leader Ric Flair, TNA Television Champion A.J. Styles, Douglas Williams, James Storm, Kazarian, Matt Morgan and Robert Roode. The group is influenced by and named after Flair's former alliance, the Four Horsemen. ==

History==

Formation
On the January 4, 2010, live, three-hour edition of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Impact! television show, Ric Flair made his debut for the company, observing the main event match between A.J. Styles and Kurt Angle.[3] On January 17 at the Genesis, pay-per-view Flair helped Styles defeat Angle to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and in the process turned both himself and Styles heel.[4] On the following edition of Impact!, Flair announced that he was going to take Styles under his wing and make him the next Nature Boy.[5] On the February 24 edition of Impact! Flair and Styles were joined by Desmond Wolfe and in the weeks leading to Lockdown Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) and Sting were added to the group to complete Team Flair for the annual Lethal Lockdown match.[6] On April 18 at Lockdown, Team Flair was defeated by Team Hogan (Abyss, Jeff Hardy, Jeff Jarrett and Rob Van Dam) and the following night on Impact! Styles lost the TNA World Heavyweight Championship to Van Dam.[7] [8] After Lockdown Sting left the group and went on to feud with Jarrett, while the rest of Team Flair remained intact. With Styles' recent shortcomings, Flair adopted X Division standout Kazarian as his newest protégé on the May 27 edition of Impact!, much to Styles' dismay.[9] [10] On the June 17 edition of Impact! Flair announced that he would reform the legendary stable Four Horsemen under the new name Fourtune and compared Styles to his former Four Horsemen partner Arn Anderson, Kazarian to Barry Windham, Roode and Storm to Ole Anderson and Tully Blanchard and Wolfe to Lex Luger, while also stating that each of them would have to earn their spots in the group.[2] Flair, wanting peace between Styles and Kazarian, booked them in a tag team match against Samoa Joe and TNA Global Champion Rob Terry at Victory Road.[11] The plan seemed to work as Styles and Kazarian worked together and were victorious due to outside interference from Desmond Wolfe and, on the July 15 edition of Impact!, Flair announced that Styles and Kazarian had earned their spots in Fourtune.[12] [13] Wolfe confronted Flair and demanded a membership in the group, but was not given one due to his long losing streak.[13] On the July 22 edition of Impact! Styles defeated Rob Terry to win the Global Championship, after some assistance from Kazarian, and the following week renamed the title the TNA Television Championship.[14] [15] That same night Fourtune's lineup was seemingly completed with the addition of Robert Roode and James Storm as the final two members, leaving Desmond Wolfe outside the group.[15]

Feud with EV 2.0
On the August 12 edition of Impact! TNA X Division Champion Douglas Williams, who had helped Flair defeat his nemesis Jay Lethal in a Street Fight the previous week, and Matt Morgan were added to Fourtune, as the stable attacked Extreme, Version 2.0 (EV 2.0), a stable consisting of former Extreme Championship Wrestling performers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15">[16] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16">[17] Fourtune had hoped to drive the ECW originals, whom they considered outsiders in their company, out of TNA, but the following week TNA president Dixie Carter sided with EV 2.0 and signed each of its members to contracts so they could settle their score with Fourtune.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Impact081910_17-0">[18] In the first official matches between the two feuding factions, Styles defeated EV 2.0 leader Tommy Dreamer in a singles match, while Beer Money, Inc. squashed the Full Blooded Italians (Guido Maritato and Tony Luke) in a tag team match.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Impact081910_17-1">[18] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18">[19] At No Surrender Fourtune defeated EV 2.0 in both of the matches between the two factions, when Douglas Williams retained his X Division Championship against Sabu and A.J. Styles defeated EV 2.0 leader Tommy Dreamer in an "I Quit" match.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19">[20] On September 6, at the tapings of the September 16 edition of Impact!, Williams lost the X Division Championship to Jay Lethal.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20">[21] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21">[22]