10 Times WWE Wrestlers Were WAY Better Together Than Apart
2. The New Age Outlaws
The staple example of a team with a whole far greater than the sum of its parts, The New Age Outlaws made so much more than chicken salad by being detestable chickensh*ts.
Allegedly of their own doing during a time where the organisation was still crying out for superstars despite the gradual emergence of Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn saved their careers and financed their future by becoming the smack-talking double act that backdoored their way into tag supremacy.
Irritating babyface Tag Team Champions the Legion of Doom, Dogg and Gunn looked like the next losers in line before sensationally dethroning the iconic duo on a December 1997 edition of Monday Night Raw. Hawk and Animal were repeatedly humiliated in the aftermath, and never got near the belts again as the new champions raced to the waiting arms of mainstream attention of a wave of Attitude Era momentum.
Their premature split in 1999 furnished a rotten angle over the 'rights' to D-Generation-X, before their hasty reunion shortly after Billy's singles push was terminated against The Rock at SummerSlam. Though WWE never attempted to programme them against one another after that, TNA did upon Gunn's arrival in 2004. Fans cared little either way by then, but did at least have the tiniest bit of interest in their rekindling the following spring.