Spirit Squad The Spirit Squad was a five member tag team who wrestled for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand , as well as in " farm territory " Ohio Valley Wrestling . The team consisted of Kenny , Johnny , Mitch , Nicky , and Mikey with the gimmick of an all - male cheerleading squad , developed from an idea suggested by Paul Heyman . They are former World Tag Team Champions and , by " executive decision " , were all collectively recognized as champion and internally decided which two defended the belts at any given time ( see Freebird Rule ) . Their reign marked the first time five wrestlers had been simultaneously recognized as World Tag Team Champions . They currently are a professional wrestling tag team that consists of Kenny and Mikey , who are both performing in WWE on the SmackDown brand History . The group made their first appearances in World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) at house show s and in dark match es . On January 23 , 2006 they had their television debut , appearing on " RAW " and helping Jonathan Coachman win a " Royal Rumble " qualifying match against Jerry " The King " Lawler by performing cheers for the Coach and distracting Lawler . In subsequent weeks the team was ( kayfabe ) hired by several wrestlers to perform cheers for them . They eventually became a part of the ongoing feud between WWE chairman Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels . The heel McMahon brought in the Squad to perform disrespectful cheers about and attack Michaels on numerous occasions , including placing them in multiple handicap matches . While involved in the Michaels / McMahon feud they also continued wrestling in the tag team division , and on the April 3 , 2006 edition of " RAW " , won the World Tag Team Championship when Kenny and Mikey — with outside help from the other three Squad members — defeated Kane and The Big Show . After winning the titles an " executive edict " was declared stating that all five members were recognized as the champions , with any two members allowed to defend the titles at once ( see Freebird Rule ) . On May 1 , the night after Backlash , the five members of the Spirit Squad were jointly named " Co - General Managers " of " RAW " . During the night , after drawing " spirit straws " , they placed Kenny into a title match with WWE Champion John Cena . Before the match they ordered play - by - play analyst Joey Styles in their office to instruct him on how to call Kenny ' s upcoming win ( which never did come to pass ) , instructing him to do it " with spirit " or they would force him to call all of the next " RAW " while wearing a ( female ) cheerleading uniform . This lead to Styles confronting color - commentator Jerry Lawler and eventually quitting the show ( and WWE ) in a worked shoot promo . Three weeks later , from " RAW " in Las Vegas , Nevada , Vince McMahon signed another Handicap Match pitting the Spirit Squad against Shawn Michaels . However , the match never started , instead the Spirit Squad brutally beat down Michaels , ripping apart his ring attire and ( kayfabe ) shattering his knee with a steel chair as he was going for his Sweet Chin Music . McMahon then called Triple H to the ring to finish Michaels off with a sledgehammer shot , however , Kenny snatched the sledgehammer away — disrespecting Triple H - - leading to him attacking the group . Triple H and Shawn Michaels revived D - Generation X ( DX ) and as a team began a feud with the Spirit Squad . DX played various sophomoric pranks on the Squad and the McMahons , as well as defeating the Spirit Squad in handicap tag matches at Vengeance and a clean sweep in an elimination handicap match at " Saturday Night ' s Main Event " . At the same time as their feud with DX and their alignment with McMahon , the team also wrestled other teams in " RAW ' s " ' tag division over their World Tag Team Title . The Squad successfully defended the titles against the teams of Jim Duggan and Eugene , Charlie Haas and Viscera , Snitsky and Val Venis before entering a lengthy feud with The Highlanders , whom they eventually defeated to retain the titles at Unforgiven . At the end of September and into October the Squad as a whole began a losing streak with separate members losing singles matches to Ric Flair on consecutive episodes of " RAW " . After Johnny and Mikey lost to the debuting Cryme Tyme on October 16 , Kenny started yelling at the other members of the Spirit Squad in the ring and walked off shouting " I ' m tired of losing " . Tensions further escalated on the October 23 " RAW " when the Spirit Squad lost to Cryme Tyme a second consecutive week . After the defeat Kenny attacked Mikey then announced that he would take on Flair , and win , since no other member of the group could do it . Later in the night he made good on his promise with help from the rest of the Squad , despite Flair bringing a number of fellow " Legends " ( Dusty Rhodes , Sgt . Slaughter , and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper ) to the ring with him to even the odds . It was then decided that Flair and one of the legends , of the fans choosing , would wrestle the Squad at " Cyber Sunday " for the Tag Team championship . At " Cyber Sunday " the fans chose Piper and he and Flair defeated Kenny and Mikey to win the title . At the time of their loss the team had held the title for 216 days , the longest since Owen Hart and The British Bulldog held it for 241 days in 1996 and 1997 . The group was " killed off " on the November 27 " RAW " after they were defeated in a 5 on 3 match by DX and Ric Flair . After a triple submission , and being buried in a backstage segment , they were dumped into a large crate stamped " OVW . Louisville , Kentucky " , a reference to the WWE farm territory the members had all come from . The breakup was confirmed by Johnny on his MySpace blog on November 30 , and furthered on the December 4 " RAW " by Kenny . The Frat Pack . Following the breakup , Kenny was the only member to remain on RAW , gaining the last name " Dykstra " and continuing the feud with Ric Flair that led to the Spirit Squad ' s break up . Meanwhile , in Ohio Valley Wrestling , Nicky and Mikey were repackaged as a tag team , calling themselves The Frat Pack . Johnny returned to OVW , while Mitch has yet to appear on television since the disbanding of the Spirit Squad . Nicky currently appears on SmackDown as Dolph Ziggler .