Who’s Next? 25 Picks For The WWE Hall Of Fame Class Of 2014By John Hancock| May 12, 2013 Wrestling Blogs Previous Page Tag Teams & Stables D-Generation X Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content DX was the WWF’s answer to the success of the NWO. On and off from 1997 to the modern day, the faction has included an ever changing roster of talent, although normally centred around Shawn Michaels and/or Triple H. From their invasions of WCW events, to their censor-baiting promos, to their overt use of male sexuality, they were one of the defining features of the Attitude Era, and a vital part of the WWF’s eventual victory in the Monday Night Wars. There have been roughly four incarnations of the group. Between 1997 and 1998, they were villains, with the group consisting of Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Chyna and Rick Rude. This was replaced, in 1998, by a baby-face version made up of Triple H, Chyna, X-Pac, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn. In 1999, the group briefly disbanded before reforming as a heel faction containing Triple H, X-Pac, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn and Tori. The group split up again in 2000, seemingly for good, until finally reforming as a baby-face tag team in 2006, which only Triple H and Shawn Michaels as members. Between them, the members of DX have won three WWF Championships, five European Championships, two Hardcore Championships, three Intercontinental Championships and eight Tag Team Championships. Should Be Inducted By: Mike Tyson The New Age Outlaws Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content If D-Generation X is too big, too complicated or, with the recent behaviour of former key member Chyna, simply too controversial, than a better option may be just the team of “The Bad Ass” Billy Gunn and “The Road Dogg” Jesse James; The New Age Outlaws. Formed in 1997 as a last ditch effort to help out too failing jobbers get over, the Outlaws were the Attitude Era before the Attitude Era even existed. Road Dogg’s iconic “Oh you didn’t know?” self-introduction, Billy Gunn’s homoerotic sexuality and a legitimately tough hardcore feud with Mick Foley and Terry Funk (then known as Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie) made the former curtain-jerkers into mega-stars. Although their single careers never reached the height of their tag team careers, The New Age Outlaws will go down in history as one of the greatest and most important partnerships of the Attitude Era. As a team, the Outlaws won the WWF Tag Team Championship five times. Should Be Inducted By: Shawn Michaels The Outsiders Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Before there was the NWO, there was The Outsiders. Perhaps more than anyone else, it was the team of Kevin Nash and Scott Hall who kick started the Monday Night Wars and possibly the entire Attitude Era itself. Forming in 1996, the pair “invaded” WCW, hinting that they were representatives of the WWF. It was a feud so believable and so near the bone that the WWF actually sued WCW for it. Eventually, The Outsiders were joined by Hulk Hogan, creating the now legendary New World Order, but, without the impact, the shock, and the hard work of The Outsiders, the entire NWO angle would have fallen apart. The partnership has since reformed several times, not only in WCW, but also in WWE and TNA. The Outsiders were five time WCW Tag Team Champions. Should Be Inducted By: Booker T The Hart Foundation Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content Originally founded all the way back in 1985, The Hart Foundation was an ever changing group centred around the legendary Hart family, specifically Bret Hart. Originally consisting of Hart and Jim Neidhart, the faction would later include Owen Hart, the British Bulldog and Brian Pillman, whilst later incarnations, like The Hart Dynasty involved younger members of the family and Dungeon alumni, like David Hart-Smith, Tyson Kidd, Natalya and Teddy Hart. The team often walked the thin line between heel and face, even getting to the point where their alignment was entirely dependent on which part of the world they were in; heel in America, but baby faces in Canada and Britain As a tag team, Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart were WWF Tag Team Champions twice, Owen Hart and The British Bulldog once, and Davey Hart-Smith and Tyson Kidd twice. In 2012, WWE.com chose the Hart Foundation as the second best tag team in professional wrestling history. Should Be Inducted By: Edge & Christian The Fabulous Freebirds Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video. By accepting you will be accessing content from YouTube, a service provided by an external third party. YouTube privacy policy If you accept this notice, your choice will be saved and the page will refresh. Accept YouTube Content There are few teams so influential that they have an entire rule named after them. The Freebird rule, which allows teams of more than two wrestlers to defend tag-team belts in the two-man combination of their choice, is named after the team that has, at different times, contained Michael Hayes, Buddy Roberts, Terry Gordy, Brad Armstrong, Steve Cox and Jimmy Garvin, although the core membership was Hayes, Roberts and Gordy. The Freebirds existed in one form or another from 1979 to 1994, working in the AWA, the NWA, WCW, the UWF, the WWF and WCCW, and, between them, they won 21 tag team titles across America. They are perhaps best remembered for their feud with the Von Erich family in the mid-80’s. More recent teams to have used the Freebird Rule include Demolition, The Wolfpac, Triple X, The 3-Live Kru, The Spirit Squad, The Band and The Beautiful People. Should Be Inducted By: Diamond Dallas Page
