10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2012
6. Both Versions Of D-Generation X Were Together For The First Time
Raw 1000 had such a positive energy about it that nobody really seemed to mind that much when the haggard-looking D-Generation X lot battered up-and-comer Damien Sandow in the opening segment.
Perhaps this was due to the unique makeup of the neon green gang?
For the first time outside of a cameo segment in 1999, the Shawn Michaels/Triple H and Triple H/X-Pac/New Age Outlaws versions of the team were together under the DX banner. Back then, it was all to fool Michaels into thinking he was in safe company before taking a sh*t-kicking from The Corporation. In 2012, it was to celebrate the company's decision to reopen the door to Pac and The Outlaws. Chyna, regrettably, was still absent.
'HBK' and 'The Game' had been fiercely protective over the branding since they brought it back to be milked to a condescending degree in the mid-2000s, but this collective version added to the celebratory air of the night and of DX itself. It was very, very different in its varied incarnations, but the erasure of the 1998 edition had been a source of frustration.
Even with the notable omission of the 'Ninth Wonder Of The World', there was something quite gratifying about all this on the night.