The 10 best Superstars from the Attitude Era

#6 The New Age Outlaws

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While WWF's main event talent was busy trying to wrestle back control of the TV ratings from WCW through in-ring and promo work, one team, in particular, was tasked with taking the fight to the Southern promotion in a much more literal sense. Originally set up as a three-person faction involving Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Chyna, D-Generation X would grow both in terms of numbers and cultural relevance with the arrival of the New Age Outlaws.

Billy Gunn and Road Dogg had already established themselves as big-time players by the time 1998 came around. Their feuds with Mick Foley and Terry Funk, as well as the legendary Road Warriors, placed them at the forefront of arguably the best tag-team division in wrestling history.

They conducted themselves with the kind of anti-authoritarian attitude that Vince McMahon must have been praying for at the time. They allowed the wrestling business as a whole to take itself altogether less seriously and helped fans acknowledge that as well as being a business that promotes fighting, sports entertainment is about letting off steam and providing a humorous escape from the stresses of everyday life.

Shortly after Wrestlemania 14, DX transitioned themselves into the 'DX Army' and provided us with one of the most memorable scenes of the entire Attitude Era when they 'invaded' WCW. Road Dogg and Gunn, along with their DX brethren, rode a tank right up to the doors of the arena where Bishoff and co. were filming an episode of Nitro. It was this kind of ballsy storytelling that encouraged fans to leave the NWO behind and come back to the company they once loved as kids during the 80s.