New Age Outlaws

"James Gang (wrestling)" redirects here. For other uses, see James Gang (disambiguation).
New Age Outlaws
Billy Gunn (left) and Road Dogg (right) in September 2011
Tag team
Members Road Dogg Jesse James / B.G. James[1]
Billy Gunn / Kip James / Rockabilly[1]
Name(s)The New Age Outlaws[1]
The James Gang[1]
Voodoo Kin Mafia[1]
The Roadie And Rockabilly [1]
Billed heightsJesse James / B.G. James:
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]
Billy Gunn / Kip James:
6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)[3]
Combined
billed weight		501 lb (227 kg)
DebutOctober 4, 1997[1]
Years active1997–2000
2006–2008
2012–2019

The New Age Outlaws[1] are an American professional wrestling tag team in World Wrestling Federation (WWF) made up of Brian James ("Road Dogg" Jesse James) and Monty Sopp ("Badd Ass" Billy Gunn). The duo became popular in the late 1990s as members of the second incarnation of the professional wrestling stable D-Generation X. Regarded as one of the greatest tag teams of all time, the promotion has described James and Gunn as "the most popular duo of WWE's Attitude Era."[4] Over the same period, The New Age Outlaws had the third highest merchandise sales in the WWF after Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.[citation needed]

Upon parting ways with the WWF, the team reformed in several promotions, mostly notably in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where, under the ringnames B.G. James and Kip James, they performed collectively as the James Gang and then as the Voodoo Kin Mafia, the latter of which was a play on the initials of their former boss in the WWF Vince McMahon. The team returned to periodic active competition in WWE under its original name in 2013 (with both members also having full-time backstage jobs with the company as well). Today only James is employed with the WWE in a backstage role while Sopp currently performs in All Elite Wrestling managing the tag team The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens).

They are six-time tag team champions in WWE, having held the WWF World Tag Team Championship five times and the WWE Tag Team Championship once. The duo hold the record for the most time between title reigns in WWE history after becoming the WWE Tag Team Champions at the 2014 Royal Rumble PPV, more than 14 years after their previous Tag Team title reign.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "James Gang Profile". Online World Of Wrestling. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
  2. ^ "Road Dogg : WWE.com". WWE.com. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  3. ^ "Billy Gunn : WWE.com". WWE.com. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  4. ^ "Billy Gunn". WWE. Retrieved December 10, 2019.