New Age Outlaws The New Age Outlaws ( also known as the James Gang and the Voodoo Kin Mafia ) are a professional wrestling tag team currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . consisting of Road Dogg / B . G . James and Billy Gunn / Kip James . As members of the second incarnation of the professional wrestling stable D - Generation X , the New Age Outlaws became extremely popular in the late 1990s . In the same time period , the New Age Outlaws had the third highest merchandise sales in the WWF after Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock . History . World Wrestling Federation . Formation ( 1997 ) . The Outlaws first formed on a 1997 episode of " Shotgun Saturday Night " when struggling superstars Billy Gunn and " Road Dogg " Jesse James , then known as Rock - a - Billy and " The Real Double J " Jesse James respectively , ended a feud between them and teamed up . On a later edition of " Monday Night Raw " , Jesse James walked out to the ring following a loss by Rock - A - Billy and asked him to turn on his manager The Honky Tonk Man and team with him . Rock - A - Billy answered by smashing a guitar on Honky Tonk Man ' s head and telling James he was in . Rock - A - Billy re - dubbed himself " Bad Ass " Billy Gunn and Jesse James rechristened himself The Road Dogg . The team made an immediate impact on the WWF tag team scene with blatant attacks against other tag teams and , not having an entrance theme , walking out to the ring with only Road Dogg making a rant against their opponents over the PA system . The team became known for pulling wins out of nowhere via cheating and use of weapons . Tag Team Champions and DX ( 1997 – 1998 ) . By the end of 1997 , they had defeated the Legion of Doom for the WWF Tag Team Title . Not only did the team win the titles that night , but they also got their " Outlaws " nickname when they " stole " the win and then ran to a waiting car , prompting " Raw " announcer Jim Ross to liken them to outlaws leaving a robbery . The name stuck and the New Age Outlaws quickly became one of the most hated teams in the WWF . During their feud with LOD , the Outlaws joined D - Generation X ( DX ) in assaulting the team on an episode of " Monday Night Raw " . Shortly before the Royal Rumble in 1998 , the New Age Outlaws began a feud with Mick Foley , first fighting him as Dude Love , then as Mankind and finally Cactus Jack . When it became apparent that he needed help dealing with the Outlaws , Foley brought in Chainsaw Charlie . This feud was highlighted by the Outlaws locking Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie in a dumpster and sending it off the entrance ramp on to the concrete floor . At WrestleMania XIV , the New Age Outlaws lost the titles to Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie in a Dumpster match . The next night on " Raw " , however , with the aid of Triple H and X - Pac , the Outlaws regained the title and officially joined DX . Joining DX switched The Outlaws from heel s to tweeners , and they feuded with many different tag teams over the course of 1998 . Their immense popularity was part of what helped the WWF challenge World Championship Wrestling for ratings supremacy during the Monday Night Wars . They lost the tag title to Kane and Mankind in the summer of 1998 , only to regain the titles from that same team at SummerSlam in a handicap match after Kane no - showed . In late 1998 Vince McMahon ' s The Corporation tried to tempt the Outlaws away from DX and failed , which led to the Outlaws losing the title to Corporation members Ken Shamrock and Big Boss Man . Break up ( 1999 ) . As 1999 started , the Outlaws slowly began to drift apart , with each man striving for singles gold . Road Dogg began to move towards the Hardcore Title , while Billy Gunn began to challenge for the Intercontinental Championship ( during the course of these challenges , Road Dogg won the IC title and Gunn won the Hardcore title ) . As 1999 continued and the team was officially no more , Gunn won the King of the Ring tournament and eventually turned heel . During the fall of 1999 the Outlaws reunited , first as face s , but then as heels when they rejoined the reformed ( and now solidly heel ) DX . No Way Out 2000 saw the final end of the Outlaws when Billy Gunn received a serious arm injury during a match with the Dudley Boyz . Gunn exited DX after " losing his cool " and getting into a fight with all DX members . Road Dogg was released from his WWF contract in early 2001 , while Billy Gunn was released from his contract in 2004 after ten years with the company . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . 4Live Kru . " Road Dogg " Jesse James debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on September 18 , 2002 under his birth name , B . G . James . In July 2003 , he formed a stable with Konnan and Ron " The Truth " Killings known as the 3Live Kru ( 3LK ) . The trio went on to become fan favorites and eventually won the NWA World Tag Team Championship on two occasions . Billy Gunn debuted in TNA at Against All Odds on February 13 , 2005 , interfering in the NWA World Heavyweight Championship bout between Jeff Jarrett and the challenging Kevin Nash . Gunn struck Nash with a chair , but he was able to kick out of Jarrett ' s subsequent pin attempt . After Gunn seized the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt in order to strike Nash with it , B . G . James ran to the ring and wrestled it away from him . B . G . James and Gunn , now renamed The New Age Outlaw ( later shortened to just The Outlaw ) , came into conflict once more on April 24 , at Lockdown , when Jarrett , The Outlaw and Monty Brown faced Diamond Dallas Page , Sean Waltman and B . G . James ( who was replacing an injured Kevin Nash ) in a Lethal Lockdown match . Page , Waltman and James were victorious , although during the match James and The Outlaw refrained from fighting one another . Through October and November 2005 , " The Outlaw " ( now using the name Kip James , due to threats from the WWE that " The Outlaw " sounded too similar to their trademarked New Age Outlaws name ) helped 3LK numerous times during their feud with Team Canada . Although he was obviously helping the Kru at every turn , Konnan refused to trust Kip . On the November 26 episode of " TNA Impact ! " , and even though Konnan had his doubts , 3LK inducted Kip into the group and renamed themselves the 4Live Kru . At Turning Point , however , Konnan turned on the group , eventually forming his own group , The Latin American Xchange ( LAX ) . Killings also went out on his own afterward , leaving only Kip and B . G . together . The James Gang ( 2006 ) . On January 14 , 2006 Kip James and B . G . James , now calling themselves The James Gang , announced that they had reunited in the face of Konnan and his new group after LAX attacked BG ' s father " Bullet " Bob Armstrong . Their official in - ring reunion took place the next night at Final Resolution , where they defeated the Diamonds in the Rough . Their feud with LAX continued and included several more appearances by " Bullet " Bob Armstrong , including an Arm Wrestling match between Konnan and the 67 - year - old Armstrong . In May 2006 , The James Gang began a feud with Team 3D over which of them was the greatest tag team . The James Gang picked up a victory over Team 3D at Sacrifice after Kip used a pipe on Brother Devon . They met again at Slammiversary , with Team 3D picking up the win this time . With the teams standing at 1 - 1 ( and Brother Runt returning to in - ring action ) , Team 3D challenged The James Gang to find themselves a partner and face them ( Brother Runt included ) in a 6 - man tag match at Victory Road . Whereas Team 3D expected them to get someone from their family ( such as " Bullet " Bob Armstrong ) , the James Gang " made a deal with the devil " and paid James Mitchell to have Abyss team up with them instead . The James Gang and Abyss won the no - disqualification 6 - man tag match after Abyss Black Hole Slammed Brother Runt onto a table and got the pin . Voodoo Kin Mafia ( 2006 – 2008 ) . On the November 2 edition of " Impact ! " , Kip and B . G . James cut a worked - shoot promo announcing they were quitting the company out of frustration . During the promo B . G . claimed that TNA had mismanaged him during his run there , and as Kip attempted to speak into the microphone it was cut off . Attempts to use an announcers microphone and scream directly to the crowd were met with another microphone cutting and then the show abruptly going to commercial . After a November 11 house show in Connecticut ( where World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) is based ) was canceled , TNA filmed a vignette at WWE headquarters featuring the James Gang discussing the show cancellation , posting it on their website two days later . This vignette was followed with a promo on the November 16 " Impact ! " , during which they announced that they had been given " creative control " , and were changing their name to the Voodoo Kin Mafia ( VKM for short , a play on Vincent Kennedy McMahon ' s initials ) and declaring " war " on WWE . During the " war " they called out the revived D - Generation X ( DX ) , calling it a " failure " and stated that the original run was saved by their insertion as The New Age Outlaws in 1998 . During their matches and promos on TNA television they continually included references to DX , including use of their signature taunts and maneuvers . Soon a series of vignettes began airing on " Impact ! " with B . G . and Kip in and around Stamford , Connecticut , calling out Paul Levesque , Michael Hickenbottom , and Vince McMahon . During the vignettes they said they were trying to get a cease and desist letter signed and get WWE to stop using the DX name . The vignettes were notable for using the same style of humor as the original DX while running down the revived DX for doing the same thing . When The Hardys reunited for December to Dismember and issued an open challenge the TNA website quickly posted a message from VKM accepting , though it had already been accepted by MNM . On December 1 , VKM showed up at a WWE house show at the Knoxville Civic Center with Vince Russo , Jeremy Borash , and a camera crew . They interviewed fans outside , filmed themselves purchasing tickets and eventually entered the building , watching the main event match - featuring DX - from an upper level seat . At December ' s Turning Point , they performed a parody of DX , then , in response to Jim Ross commenting on his website that Vince McMahon probably would not respond to the " war " , and in response to their still receiving of legal warnings from WWE , they issued a " Million Dollar Challenge " to Vince McMahon and DX , offering to put up $ 1 million for a big fight between the DX members and themselves . Hermie Sadler of the UWF promotion later offered to host the " Million Dollar Challenge " at a UWF show during the weekend of WWE ' s Armageddon pay - per - view event ( scheduled for December 17 ) citing that his event was close to Richmond , Virginia , the site of Armageddon . After the challenge was ignored , they narrowed it on the January 4 " Impact ! " , challenging just Hickenbottom to meet them at the Alamo in his hometown of San Antonio the following Wednesday . VKM declared themselves victorious in their " war " during a promo at Final Resolution citing WWE ' s refusal to acknowledge their presence while fans loudly chanted both " TNA " and " VKM " during the January 8 episode of " WWE Raw " . In the same promo , they entered an angle with Christy Hemme , who declared that women deserve respect in wrestling and found herself heavily disagreed with and mocked by Kip James , while B . G . attempted to agree with her . To shut VKM up , the evil Christy brought in The Heartbreakers ( Antonio Thomas and Romeo Roselli ) in to TNA as mystery opponents at Destination X , but VKM made short work of them . Around this time , Lance Hoyt began hanging around with VKM , keeping Christy Hemme out of VKM ' s matches . In April , at Lockdown , Hemme had Serotonin face VKM on the pre - show , but again VKM came out victorious . At Sacrifice 2007 , VKM lost to Hemme ' s new team Damaja and Basham formerly known as The Basham Brothers in World Wrestling Entertainment , though not fairly , as Basham and Damaja injured ( kayfabe ) BG James before the match , making it a handicap match . VKM finally defeated Basham and Damaja at Slammiversary after Kip pinned Basham , but Lance Hoyt turned on VKM after the match . Weeks later , at the Victory Road pay - per - view , VKM debuted a new valet / accomplice , the so - called " Voodoo Queen " Roxxi Laveaux . She attacked Hemme after VKM ' s match . On February 21 , 2008 , Kip turned on his partner by hitting him and his father with a crutch in a tag title match against A . J . Styles and Tomko , thus ending the team . TNA creative writer Vince Russo stated that the Voodoo Kin Mafia gimmick was cut short out of respect to Triple H , who got injured at the time . World Wrestling Entertainment . Return to WWE ( 2012 – present ) . On July 23 , 2012 , the New Age Outlaws returned on the 1000th episode of " Raw " to re - unite with Sean Waltman , Shawn Michaels and Triple H to re - form D - Generation X for one night only . On December 17 , Billy Gunn and Road Dogg appeared to present the Slammy Award to Jerry Lawler for Comeback of the Year . Starting on December 28 , the team reunited to face Team Rhodes Scholars in a house show loop . On the March 4 , 2013 episode of " Old School Raw " , the New Age Outlaws competed in their first televised tag team match in WWE since February 2000 , where they defeated Primo & Epico . On the March 11 episode of Raw , during a match with Team Rhodes Scholars , they were attacked by Brock Lesnar On the January 6 , 2014 episode of Old School Raw , the Outlaws were in the corner of CM Punk during his match against Roman Reigns . On the January 10 episode of SmackDown , the Outlaws would team with CM Punk in a six - man tag match against The Shield in a losing effort . On the January 13 , 2014 episode of Raw , the Outlaws would once again team with Punk in a rematch against The Shield , only to abandon Punk and lose the match , turning heel in the process for the first time in over a decade . Four days later on SmackDown , they would defeat WWE Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a non - title tag team match . At the Elimination Chamber PPV , they successfully retained the tag team titles against The Usos , but in a rematch they lost the titles .