WWE SmackDown Debut Wrestlers: Where Are They Now?
9. The New Age Outlaws
Billy Gunn and Road Dogg first started teaming together in 1997, and they’ve practically been attached at the hip ever since. The multi-time WWE Tag Team Champions are best known for their run with D-Generation X, and while they’ve endured multiple break-ups in multiple promotions, they always seem to come back together.
They fought for the Tag Titles on SmackDown’s first show, but both Outlaws spent much of 1999 striving for singles gold. They split a few weeks after the show, and while Road Dogg was released in 2001, Gunn stuck around until 2004 before following him out the door. The duo dipped in and out of TNA, both together and apart, before returning to WWE in 2012, and inexplicably winning the Tag Team Championships at the 2014 Royal Rumble. Fortunately, they dropped the belts just six weeks later.
Road Dogg currently works as a producer on SmackDown, but Gunn was released from his contract after failing a drug test in November 2015. Now a semi-regular independent worker, Gunn was last seen hilariously teaming with fellow former WWE wrestler Yoshitatsu during NJPW’s World Tag League in December, and appeared in the company’s annual Rumble at Wrestle Kingdom 11 last week, where he stuck out like a sore thumb.