WWE: New Age Outlaws' 8 Most Memorable Moments

2. The Voodoo Kin Mafia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxk7yz85mww After splitting in February 2000, it would be 5 years before Billy and Road Dogg were reunited although this time it was not in the familiar surroundings of the WWE. Road Dogg joined TNA Wrestling in 2002 as BG James following his release from the WWE. He first formed a popular stable with Konnan and Ron Killings known as 3LiveKru who had two successful runs as TNA Tag Team Champions. When Gunn parted ways with WWE in 2004, he showed up in TNA soon after, inserting himself in the 3LK storyline in an attempt to convince BG James to reform their old team in TNA. First billed as the Outlaw, he was forced to change his name to Kip James when the WWE insisted the Outlaw was too close to the copyright they already owned. After a brief time as 4LiveKru, Kip and BG went on to form the "James Gang," and reignited their feud with the Dudleyz. Eventually, the James Gang gimmick was dropped in favour of a new team name and a new attitude akin to what got them started in the WWE. Kip and BG announced they were now to be known as the Voodoo Kin Mafia for no other reason apart from it shared the same initials as Vincent Kennedy McMahon. VKM began to call out and target the WWE, seemingly upset about the company's recent decision to bring back a watered down version of Degeneration X. After declaring war on DX they shot a number of attempted controversial segments trying to get the WWE's attention. One such attack was an attempt to recreate the WCW invasion of 1998 where VKM showed up at WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut and another where they came to the ring dressed as Triple H and Shawn Michaels and did a parody of what the two were doing on WWE TV. Most notably, they showed up at a WWE Live Event with a camera crew and even entered the arena to watch the main event that featured DX. All of this was ridiculous grasping at straws and obviously a million miles beneath the WWE radar. Embarrassingly they made a million dollar challenge to the billion-dollar company, which the WWE never even commented on. TNA actually decided to celebrate this non response as a victory at their Final Resolution PPV that year, when really it just showed how far down the minor leagues that WWE considered TNA to be. Essentially TNA were using their own TV and PPV time to talk about the other more successful company. Like WCW before them, they attempted to blur the lines between reality and wrestling by referring to real life situations and people but it was obvious to everyone that it was nothing more than desperation. It should come as no surprise that Vince Russo was writing for TNA at the time. At a fan event in 2013, Road Dogg referenced the situation saying that "Russo was writing and we got paid weekly. It was a bad time in my life, bro!"