7 Babyface Wrestling Tag Teams Which Flopped As Heels

2. New Age Outlaws

Who would have guessed that the bland 'Double J' Jesse James and dreadful Honky Tonk Man protégé Rockabilly would go on to become the WWF's coolest tag-team of the entire 'Attitude Era'? Both gimmicks were a death sentence career-wise, and the renamed Road Dogg has since admitted that WWF creative only put them together as a unit because they had no other ideas.

Road Dogg and 'Bad Ass' Billy Gunn may have gone on to join D-Generation X and hear thousands chanting along with their catchphrases, but The New Age Outlaws didn't get off to a hot start. Indeed, one feud against The Legion Of Doom as calendars turned to 1998 proved ironic; the Outlaws called LOD old and boring, yet they were the ones struggling to stop fans yawning.

Suddenly, something clicked when the Outlaws joined forces with Triple H, Chyna, and X-Pac to revamp DX in the spring of 1998. Rethought as cool babyfaces, Road Dogg and Gunn completely reversed their fortunes and became one of the most viable teams of the entire '90s.

They did this by being original. Road Dogg's constant chatter throughout the team's entrances was better suited to fan interaction than as an attempt to gain heat, and the anti-authority vibe of DX in general worked best when complementing the federation's new 'Attitude' rather than poking holes in the past.