10 WWE Wrestlers Who Should NEVER Have Come Back

6. The New Age Outlaws

Kurt Angle
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With Billy Gunn looking jacked and Road Dogg thankfully free of the many demons that had consumed him years prior, there was a lot to love about the New Age Outlaws returning for a Raw 1000 reunion with D-Generation X.

It felt at long last like the group could be whole again, and an under-represented Attitude Era act could finally enjoy the nostalgia run they'd never been able to fully replicate as Voodoo Kin Mafia in TNA. It was genuinely...sweet.

And then it soured.

Stretching the idea ludicrously beyond its expiration point, The Outlaws were at various points booked to team with and turn on CM Punk, defeat Cody Rhodes and Goldust to become tag team champions (and beat them handily in rematches to force a split and the devising of the wretched Stardust gimmick) and batter newcomers The Ascension alongside The APA in a senseless burial of a supposedly dominant double act.

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