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  • New Age Outlaws Name Modern Tag Teams They’d Love to Face

    New Age Outlaws Name Modern Tag Teams They’d Love to Face

    The New Age Outlaws are a reunited act again, and they already have dream opponents in mind.

    Road Dogg and Billy Gunn recently appeared together on Busted Open Radio in the wake of Road Dogg’s departure from WWE’s creative team, with the pair also surfacing in Las Vegas during WrestleMania 42 weekend.

    Asked which modern tag teams they would want to face in their prime, each legend went a different direction. Both answers point toward matches that could realistically happen.

    Billy Gunn picked his sons, Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn, who currently work in AEW as The Gunn Club. Road Dogg went with The Street Profits, praising Montez Ford as a bonafide superstar and calling Angelo Dawkins an athlete among athletes.

    “I love the Street Profits, I think they’re great athletes,” Road Dogg said. “I think Montez is a superstar and everybody knows it. Dawkins is the unsung hero. Dawkins is an athlete of athletes.”

    A Gunn Club vs. Outlaws Match Is Closer Than It Sounds

    The Gunn Club answer is the one with real legs. Billy Gunn is still an active performer in AEW, where his sons work full-time, meaning a Gunns vs. Outlaws match would require no cross-promotional negotiation at all. Road Dogg has not wrestled since 2015, but he has floated the idea of stepping back in the ring for a one-off dumpster match in 2027.

    The Street Profits angle carries its own weight given the timing. Ford and Dawkins made a surprise return on the Raw after WrestleMania 42, coming to the aid of Seth Rollins during an attack from The Vision. With Road Dogg no longer tied to WWE creative, the door is at least cracked for a conversation, even if the logistics are heavier.

    For a team that built its name on attitude and family lineage, both answers fit. One just happens to be a phone call away.

  • The New Age Outlaws Are Reuniting

    The New Age Outlaws Are Reuniting

    Oh you didn’t know? The New Age Outlaws, the legendary Attitude Era tag team comprised of “Road Dogg” BG James and Billy Gunn are getting the band back together.

    Following BG James’ recent departure from WWE, it seems one of his first calls was to an old friend. The New Age Outlaws‘ first booking together in years has been announced for Great Lakes Championship Wrestling’s Blizzard Brawl 21. The event takes place Saturday, December 5 at the Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    New Age Outlaws Runion

    The duo have been announced as the first guests for the event, marking Road Dogg’s return to the independent wrestling circuit following his . Billy Gunn, who is currently signed with AEW, will join his longtime tag team partner for the special appearance.

    The New Age Outlaws are two-time WWE Tag Team Champions and were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a team.

    The Milwaukee event also marks a new chapter for GLCW, with the promotion moving to the Potawatomi Casino as a new venue for the annual Blizzard Brawl.

    With the Outlaws scheduled to reunite in December, you can be sure we’ll be seeing more of the decorated duo in the months ahead.

  • Billy Gunn: Today’s Wrestlers Are Lazy, ‘Don’t Know How to Work’

    AEW coach and WWE Hall of Famer Billy Gunn delivered sharp criticism of modern wrestling during a recent appearance on ARWP, arguing that today’s performers rely too heavily on athleticism at the expense of fundamental storytelling.

    “Nowadays, nobody knows how to work,” Gunn said. “They don’t know how to work in general. We get it, back in the 80s, isn’t going to work now because they’ve taken it so far to the extreme that you have to have very good basic storytelling for me to follow along and see somebody actually wrestle.”

    The D-Generation X legend emphasized that matches need genuine conflict to engage audiences beyond hardcore fans. “There has to be a reason for us to fight. There has to be a reason for somebody to like me and hate you. Just because we’re going to wrestle, I don’t understand how you get into that,” Gunn explained, contrasting modern wrestling with the Attitude Era’s character-driven approach.

    Gunn specifically criticized wrestlers for prioritizing high-impact moves over psychology. “These kids don’t do that because they’re lazy. They just want to go, ‘I’m going to do this move. I want everybody to pop for me first.’ They are so athletic that the people can’t follow along,” he said, noting the problem exists across both AEW and WWE.

    The 35-year veteran has been off AEW television since The Acclaimed split. He competes for QT Marshall’s Georgia-based 1 Fall Wrestling.