5 WWE tag teams that shouldn't have split up

#4 The New Age Outlaws were back together soon after their WWE split

The World Tag Team Championship was on the line in a Steel Cage Match on this day in 1999! pic.twitter.com/AW42lWWw21

— WWE (@WWE) November 25, 2018

While both men had success in other roles at times in WWE, Billy Gunn and Road Dogg Jesse James are best remembered as the New Age Outlaws.

Winning tag team gold in WWE on six occasions, Road Dogg and Gunn formed their partnership just as the Attitude Era was kicking off for the promotion in late 1997.

The New Age Outlaws were a huge part of that time period for WWE, particularly after they joined D-Generation X in 1998, Incredibly popular with the company's ever-growing audience, Road Dogg and Gunn reportedly had merchandise sales that could only be beaten at the time by Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.

The team worked well because both Road Dogg and Gunn were far more comfortable as tag team wrestlers than they were as singles acts. Despite this, WWE wanted to push Gunn as a solo superstar in the summer of 1999

Before WWE could set Gunn on the path to what it believed would be singles stardom, though, it wanted to end the New Age Outlaws as an on-screen tandem.

Gunn turned on Road Dogg in late April, before the pair had an underwhelming pay-per-view match the following match. What could have been a long-term rivalry, though, was cut short when Gunn won the 1999 King of the Ring tournament.

On This Day in 1999, Billy Gunn won the 1999 King of the Ring tournament.This was meant to mark the begining of a huge push for Billy Gunn, we all know where that ended. pic.twitter.com/m7gOqhDXi8

— Wrestle Critic (@WrestleCritic) June 27, 2019

Gunn's big push didn't last long. In the biggest bout of his heel run as Mr Ass, Gunn was defeated by The Rock at SummerSlam 1999. Gunn failed to connect as a top-tier heel. WWE fans liked his partnership with the ultra charismatic Road Dogg and weren't ready for it to end.

By the following month, WWE had seen the error of its ways, putting the New Age Outlaws back together as a face tag team. The promotion never attempted to have the pair feud again.

As part of DX, both Gunn and Road Dogg were inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2019.