The New Age Outlaws | |
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Billy Gunn (left) and Road Dogg (right) in September 2011
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Tag team | |
Members |
Road Dogg / Jesse James / B.G. James Billy Gunn / Kip James / Rockabilly |
Name(s) | The New Age Outlaws The New Corporate Outlaws The James Gang Voodoo Kin Mafia |
Heights | Jesse James / Road Dogg / B.G. James: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Billy Gunn / Kip James: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
Combined weight |
501 lb (227 kg) |
Debut | October 4, 1997 |
Disbanded | November 13, 2015 |
Years active | 1997–2000 2006–2008 2012–2015 |
Promotions | 2CW APW BCW BTW CCW CFW CWE CWI ECW EWF FPW GLCW HWA IWA IWF JAPW MCW NWA NWS PWS UWF UXW ROG SCW TNA TNT TWA WWF/E X3W |
The New Age Outlaws were a professional wrestling tag team.
Originally known as The New Age Outlaws in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and wrestling under the ring names "Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Badd Ass" Billy Gunn, the duo achieved high levels of success and became extremely popular in the late 1990s as members of the second incarnation of the professional wrestling stable D-Generation X. The promotion has described James and Gunn as "the most popular duo of WWE's Attitude Era." In the same time period, The New Age Outlaws had the third highest merchandise sales in the WWF after Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.
Upon parting ways with the WWF, the team reformed in several promotions, mostly notably in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where, under the ringnames B.G. James and Kip James, they performed collectively as the James Gang and then as the Voodoo Kin Mafia, the latter of which was a play on the initials of their former boss in the WWF Vince McMahon. The team returned to periodic active competition in WWE under its original name in 2013 (with both members also having full-time backstage jobs with the company as well).
They are six-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the WWF Tag Team Championship five times and the WWE Tag Team Championship once.
The Outlaws first formed on the October 4, 1997 episode of Shotgun Saturday Night when struggling superstars Billy Gunn and "Road Dogg" Jesse James, then known as Rockabilly and "The Real Double J" Jesse James respectively, ended their feud and teamed up.