*takes a deep breath*
“Oh you didn’t know your ass better call somebody. It’s me it’s me it’s that d.o.double g rollin’ with that a double crooked letter damn right I’d like to welcome everybody too the Dogg house.
Ladies and gentleman boys and girls, children of all ages D Generation X proudly brings too you, The Road Dogg Jesse James The Bad Ass Billy Gunn The New Age Outlaws, and if your not down with that we got two words for you:
SUCK IT!!”
Ahem.
Now that’s out of my system, let’s talk about The New Age Outlaws. Six time WWF Tag Team Champions and one time TNA Tag Team Champions, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn are two talented as hell wrestlers. They were also part of D Generation X.
The New Age Outlaws formed after Billy Gunn (then Rockabilly) smashed a guitar over The Honky Tonk Man’s head, by doing so he created one of the most loved tag teams of the Attitude Era. They won their first tag team gold in 97 after defeating The Legion of Doom, the win was said to be a steal after winning they ran out the building and towards a waiting car, and JR likened it to outlaws leaving a robbery. The notoriety of The New Age Outlaws was born.
During WrestleMania XIV, NAO lost the tag team championships to Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie, the infamous night after WrestleMania however, they won the belts back with the help of Triple H and X Pac. D Generation X were here minus Shawn Michaels. Fighting tag teams all through 98, they lost and won the championship, then both men wanted solo gold.
They split up and Road Dogg pursued and won the Hardcore Championship and Billy Gunn pursued and won the International Championship. No longer The New Age Outlaws, both men worked on a solo career. Gunn won King of Ring and turned heel. In 99, they reunited as faces but the call of a heel turn came with the newly reformed D Generation X. No Way Out 2000, saw Gunn get a legitimate arm injury and he left DX after “losing his cool” and fighting with each member. Road Dogg was released in 01 and Billy Gunn followed in 04.
After leaving WWE, they both joined TNA at different times. TNA decided to put them back together as James Gang. They were with TNA for a fair while and they won the tag titles there once. Fast forward to 2012 and both men returned on the RAW 1000 episode. NAO was back for one night only to be with a reformed D Generation X. In 2013, they appeared on an episode Old School RAW where they beat Primo and Epico. Back on Old School RAW the following year, they were in the corner of CM Punk as he went against Roman Reigns. They teamed with CM Punk two further times against The Shield, the last time abandoning Punk and turning heel once again.
They won the tag titles off of Goldust and Cody Rhodes at Royal Rumble, their sixth and final reign. They retained them against the brothers and then The Usos at Elimination Chamber, unfortunately during a rematch with The Usos, they lost the titles. NAO teamed with Kane to go against The Shield at WrestleMania XXX. They lost, and due to another legitimate injury to Gunn NAO took time off until 2015. They returned face where they attacked The Ascension with NWO and APA, this sanctioned a match between NAO and The Ascension in which NAO lost. They appeared one final time at WrestleMania XXXI in the ring with Triple H, Shawn Michaels and X PAC against Sting and the NWO. It was a truly electric moment as two of the biggest teams in WWE history had one final battle in which they helped Triple H beat Sting.
Nowadays, Road Dogg is the head writer for the SmackDown brand whilst Billy Gunn is still wrestling on the Independent scene. One year, The New Age Outlaws will be in their rightful place in the WWE Hall of Fame.
If you’re not down with that, then we’ve got two words for you:
SUCK IT!!
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