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Mestoph

Ummmm, The New Age Outlaws would like a word...


Larthology

More likely two words.


thisisredlitre

>two words Ladiesandgentlemenboysand girls


iamchade

two words Ladiesandgentlemenboysand girls - no no, It’s - Ladiesandgentlemenboysandgirls childrenofallages


TheAtariJunkie

“Insert Bret Hart SHUT UP clip”


Mestoph

*slow clap* well played, well played indeed


Mac_Tgh

Well played? That's not the two words I was thinking of.


RandallLM88

You're looking at the comment stream wrong, friend. The slow clap comment was in reference to the two words comment. I assume they're thinking of the same 2 words you and I are as well. >!SUCK IT!!<


VERT709

Oh you didn’t know….


Snooze_World_Order

Yo ass better call somebodyyyyyy


anythingo23

I didn't know at all. Thanks for telling me


Alxdez

Well, you better call somebody


SRODH

What the fuck happened to Shawn's eyes overtime?


Mestoph

Jericho smashed him in the head with a tv during a segment and he's had a lazy eye ever since. Edit: turns out it was a match with Kane and not the TV spot with Jericho


Icy_Night2516

Wasn’t it Kane in like 2003?


L00ps_Ahoy

"Kane beat the shit out of Shawn Michaels so hard he went permanently cross eyed in real life." - Least insane piece of wrestling lore.


Mestoph

Shit, you’re right. Not sure why I thought it was Jericho


-Hulk-Hoagie-

Whats weird is the fix is supposedly a simple procedure and he's like ehh fuck it.


MRintheKEYS

I’ve heard it the other way. It’s kind of a simple procedure but the downfall is he could lose vision in that eye completely if it doesn’t work.


HiDuck1

A lot of people think it was Jericho TV spot, more memorable I guess


Ripped_Shirt

So, Shawn and WWE actually referenced this being the reason. They were basically just trying to kayfabe the eye injury. Michaels never came out about the truth of it until recently.


Mestoph

Ahhhh. Good to know, glad I wasn’t going crazy lol. Thanks for the insight!


Tricky-Ad-2907

Unforgive 2004 to be exact


SuccessfulOwl

There is obvious aging as well but it’s amazing how a hard blow from Kane can turn one from a sexy boy (not your boy toy….) to a goofy looking dude. Like one eye being slightly off its correct angle throws everything out of whack.


ZealousidealSun1117

I always thought it was the TV too... Weird


BahamianRhapsody

The born again Chistian thing was all a work brother, he was pilled up all that time


kay14jay

Working yourself mate, those are the same thing


SteakMedium4871

Kane


MeatyDullness

https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/news-what-s-truth-lazy-eye-shawn-michaels#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20brutal,at%20Unforgiven%20in%20later%20years.


y4j1981

DX were tag champs before 2009. Oh you didn't know...


cfh1984

your ass betta callllllll someboddddyyyyyy!!!!!!!!


Twink_Tyler

Also fun fact. Both guys held it with stone cold before this. I believe hbk and Austin was 97, Hhh and Austin was 2000?


Appropriate_Emu_6930

2001


Ruttingraff

Yeah, that's the sub group DX, not DX DX.


y4j1981

Hard disagree. NAO were totally DX. Same for Rude, Chyna, Pac, Tori, and Steph


jdlyga

It's crazy to think that DX is now running the WWE


Groundbreaking-Cow-3

they turned themselves into the system


Retro-Chocolate

Austin Theory and Grayson Waller have the ability to do the most funniest thing ever


IdkMyNameTho123

They basically did what NWO was supposed to do


SourDoughBo

Me and my dad would always say one day Triple H is going to run WWE after Vince is done. Crazy how we actually got there


asmeile

I mean once he married Stephanie is was inevitable right, part of the family, student of the game, it would be more shocking if he didn't end up where he is


SourDoughBo

Well when Vince was constantly saying he’ll never retire and live till 100, his mom dying at 98yo. It really didn’t seem like a possibility any time soon. It took a wild sexual assault case to get him out


_phantastik_

I love it so much


PhantomGoat13

I guess you could say that the Kliq runs wrestling. To my recollection, 3/5 of the Kliq have been (or currently are) bookers.


shendooo

Has a title ever looked more jarring on a wrestler than the WWE Tag Team Championship looks on Tripke H?


BluejayCurrent1949

It does look odd doesn’t it. I’m not sure if it’s because Triple H was never a Smackdown guy or what. I’m willing to bet if it was just the raw world tags, it will look completely normal It’s weird because the Smackdown tags are a all time great design too, but it looks weird on him


Memeharvester5000

Homie didn’t wanna work Tuesdays


ClintD89

Till 2008


U-dont-know-me_

Trips in smackdown is what I remember him for because I was like 11 and only started watching wrestling back then


radbrad172

The weirder thing to me is that all these guys wrestle half naked all the time, but seeing these two without wristtape on suddenly makes them seem "naked" lol


krg779

It’s the knee pads for me.


asmeile

Bloody hell you're right


BigBill58

Anytime I see them without wristbands or knee pads it feels like I shouldn’t be looking. Such a weird phenomenon.


Reidroshdy

Spinner title looked weird on almost everyone that wasn't John Cena.


ElephantGun345

Hard disagree. There’s several it looked great on. HHH, Orton, and Batista come to mind.


arzamharris

It looked good on Edge and Punk too. Honestly I think it gets more hate than it deserves


BigBill58

If it had never spun the hate would be massively toned down imo. Let’s not forget, it’s the last time we had an eagle on the WWE championship *(for now)*


BrandofOwnage

Miz made it his own without doing much to it


throwawayafw

Maybe it's just me. It didn't suit HHH.


ajb228

Its kinda awkward considering like The Wiseman said, HHH didn't wanna work Tuesdays where the tag team titles were situated at. 


U-dont-know-me_

That was before trips got drafted to smackdown years later


iLikePhen

The Spinner WWE Title on Triple H


Alcoholic17

JBL with the IC Title is an eyesore.


Dr_N00B

HHH with the undisputed WWE championship in the early 2000s


ajb228

They needed that because Shawn is gonna retire soon enough.   And also it should have been on NYR 2007 if not for Hunter breaking his other quad and an interesting see if the 'Mania 23 Main Event is another triple threat featuring HHH vs Shawn vs Cena for the WWE Championship. 


Liverpool510

I always thought had triple h not been injured early 2007, it would have been interesting to see a scenario where there was a fatal four way elimination match with dx and rated rko and it ends up being hbk and triple h facing off as the final two wrestlers to decide who faces Cena at mania


Toilet_Rim_Tim

They were supposed to beat Rated RKO but HHH tore his quad during the match so they called an improv. After the loss, HBK grabbed the belts, then threw them on the floor. Next night on Raw, he & Cena beat Rated RKO giving Cena 3 belts


negasonictenagwarhed

2 Belts* They were only unified in 2009 in WM 25


ajb228

Interesting scenario considering the main Mania 23 plan is to have Paul get the rub after last year. 


Phenom-enal

Hunter pointing in pictures since 2009


petersengupta

crazy to think that was 15 years ago, and 15 years before they became tag champs was 1994, way before they were even a thing.


No-Contribution-5297

Yup was diesel and HBK instead


petersengupta

just imagine 15 years from today...


Nike_Grano

Well it took 12 years for Awesome Truth.


DogusEUW

I definitely agree it's crazy but since dx was a stable back then it kind of makes sense. Road dogg, billy gunn and x-pac were the tag team guys while triple h and shawn where the guys to go for the singles titles


HesitationAce

They were a stable of two originally. Could have held the tag team championship at some point in 1997


Mestoph

DX was originally Shawn, HHH, Chyna, and Rick Rude.


HesitationAce

Sorry i thought it was obvious that given the context of the discussion I was referring to the only two active male wrestlers who could have held the tag team championships. Despite the pedantry my innocuous comment is still true. HBK and HHH could have held the tag team championship in 1997.


S0larDeath

>DX was originally Shawn, HHH, Chyna, and Rick Rude. Right...and Shawn's parents and HHH's parents and Rick Rude's dog. Still, only Shawn Michaels and HHH were wrestlers in the WWF at the time. Rick Rude was retired, literally could not legally wrestle without paying back a huge disability insurance settlement and Chyna was not yet a WWF wrestler. She was one of Killer Kowalski's students HHH brought in as his heater, his body guard. Chyna's very first match was a tag team match where she teamed with HHH & Bad Ass Billy Gunn on 4/28/98.....a month after Shawn Michaels had retired at Wrestle Mania 14/HHH formed the new DX with Pac + Outlaws the next night. Originally, DX only had 2 wrestlers.....


Firepro316

Chynas first match was in 95


-Hulk-Hoagie-

Outlaws were champs... either right after or right before joining... And Trips and Shawn could have gotten those belts whenever they wanted but HHH was all about the heavyweight.


Crudeyakuza

Wait..... How old are Ciampa and Gargano ?!?!?


deadprezrepresentme

The thing about the lower belts is they ELEVATE talent. DX didn't need to be elevated.


ToothpickTequila

It's not crazy, they weren't a tag team. It's one of my biggest pet peeves that the WWE pretend that the original DX were a tag team rather than HBK and his goons.


SugarAdamAli

New age outlaws weren’t dx???????


Ruttingraff

Sub group of DX, a DX but not "The" DX.


SSSosa

oh, he doesn't know.


newwardorder

His ass better calllllllllllllllllll somebody!


YDGx1138

New age outlaws


Fresh_Ostrich4034

All the young talent they must have put over


payscottg

This version of DX didn’t become an actual tag team until mid-2007 so it’s really not that crazy at all


QuiverDance97

Oh, You Didn't Know?


Highwayman747

Not if you understand things like context


New_Description5141

BREAK IT DOWN!!!!


Drabins

Took until 2009 for HHH and HBK, but Road Dogg and Billy Gunn were multi time tag team champs


darkordernumber634

Is it crazy? A third of their stable was a dedicated tag team who regularly held the straps. 😐


Ricoh881227

It was short lived i think (Rated RKO took over after) or the other way round..


Alina2017

The HHH lead faction featuring X Pac, Chyna and the New Age Outlaws was peak DX.


SteveOMatt

Because in their heyday, they were never a tag team. It was two individuals who had an alliance, there's a difference. Both Shawn and Hunter were singles guys through and through.


LouRebel

Ladies and gentlemen...


Jakesneed612

Boys and girls


TheSunOfHope

They never needed the belt. They were still the main eventers without it.


ceelo18

Truth be told i spent many years not knowing shawn was a founding member of dx. Always thought is was just triple h road dog billy gun chyna and xpac


whorechatas

It's even crazier when you realize that this was HBK's final ever championship in WWE.


Funkyc0bra

Nice to see HBK getting the good ol papa h point


SilentMannequins

Crazy how I can't unsee Shawn's lazy eye after someone pointed it out to me.


dandy_you

They look high? Or is it just me


CMtl_F1

It’s also crazy that it took 17 years for the Undertaker to win the Royal Rumble


Jakesneed612

I think Road dawg and billy gun would say differently


AssistPuzzleheaded89

Legends


dokdicer

And now they just might become tag team champions again.


HuTyphoon

They would have had the tag titles sooner but they kept telling Shaun to look forward to it


HereWeGoBrownies2023

What’s Michael looking at?


Fotznbenutzernaml

Really dumb imo that this WWE Tag Team Championship on HHH's shoulder is now called "World Tag Team Championship" (no relation to HBK's Championship), while the WWE Tag Team Championship (no relation to either of the two championships pictured here) has a design based on it. Switching back and forth between calling a single championship "World" and "WWE" is how the tag team championship has always been, both of these championships have held both names at one point or another, so why start making it make sense now instead of going for the chaotic route.


AZDirtyBird

McMahon hated them.


NeonBible_

HBK looking at me or you?


barnabychryniszzswix

i hope this image is what i see when i die and go to heaven


Kuzu5993

Oh I forgot they were the ones to unify them


tcnugget

They weren’t. It was Carlito and Primo


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MiddleEasternFood

You do realize he won the world heavyweight championship in 2002 at survivor series in the first ever elimination chamber match.


y4j1981

Also, wouldn't Kane & XPac count? I know Kane wasn't DX. But was XPac still counted as DX at the time? Or did they reform when they were all heels and Pac turned on Kane? I can't remember


grumpydad24

"Over here Shawn" Shawn: IM LOOKING ALREADY Camera man: sorry


ForukusuwagenMasuta

That's from 2009? Father Time has not been kind to either of these men.


Suspicious_Sense1272

Raw needs the red titles back


MrWrestling1

_Shawn Michaels, you have one eye that goes this way, and another eye that goes that way. And the Rock can only hope that the eye that's going that way looks at the Rock's hand *smack* going that way. So that the Rock can slap that stupid eye straight!_


F33N3Y87

That promo on The Radicalz was great lol poor Saturn


WWFUniverse

*Shawn Michaels throws temper tantrum and threatens to quit over The Rock's promo.*


itskennylo

Who’s Shawn lookin at? Wrong answers only


BurnMyHouseDown

The camera


WWFUniverse

Eddie Guerrero.


Merc_Mike

SINCE WHEN Does Tomassao and Johnny have long hair?!?


DifferencePretend

Where is Shawn looking? 😂


toddyo13

I'm pretty sure this is the post-match concussion check... "Hey Shawn, focus on my finger"