Are the New Age Outlaw's Hall of Famers?

[Dave the Dave]

Yes, but there a ton of guys that should be in before them. They made, i think, a lot of memorable moments and Old Monty has a lot of credentials, despite not being that good.
I would like them in, plus, this is my 12 year old mark self talking anyways, that is when i loved DX

[T.J. "the Crippler" Stevens]

Yes. If you define tag team wrestling for one era, especially the most succesful era ever, then you're Hall of Famers.

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

dirtydickraines said:

Hmmm, I see the arguments that you are making. But it brings up a few other questions. If the New Age Outlaw's aren't deserving of the HoF, than why does everyone think a guy like John Tenta is? I'm not taking any shots here, just making a point. He only had one tag team title run, sat on a snake and had a bunch of bad gimmicks.

Since nobody's addressed this yet, I'll try....

I think Tenta deserves it for several reasons

1 - Longevity, competed in the WWE and WCW through two different decades, usually in the mid-to-upper midcard range, except for his jobber status as Golga (but even then he had a push at times). NAO were jokes in 1997 until DX officially inducted them into the fold in 1998, their best year by far.

2 - Not only did he main event SummerSlam opposite Hulk Hogan, I THINK he had the distinction of never being pinned on PPV, only losing by DQ or countout over the years, or his partners taking the fall in tag matches. I could be wrong, though.

3 - Character. He was, by all accounts, a great guy who no one ever had a harsh word to say about. Not like NAO, who are a couple of bitter has-beens who do nothing but b***h about the very men who made them stars.

Just my opinions though. I disagree with a lot of HoF choices.

[Brickstone Kid]

Billy Gunn should be in just because of his Assman theme music. Road Dogg shouldn't be in just because of his and K-Kwik's "Get Rowdy" theme music.

[Tyfo]

underhoven said:

Billy Gunn should be in just because of his Assman theme music. Road Dogg shouldn't be in just because of his and K-Kwik's "Get Rowdy" theme music.

But their two real G's and their bout to get rowdy.

Oh you didnt know, you better ask somebody.

[MysteryPartner]

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[Loki]

There are AT LEAST 10-15 tag teams (WWF/E only) more deserving than NAO... but I fear they'll end up there, probably thanks to the D-X affiliation (which was pretty much the only popular thing they were involved with)

[dirtydickraines]

godz said:

dirtydickraines said:

Hmmm, I see the arguments that you are making. But it brings up a few other questions. If the New Age Outlaw's aren't deserving of the HoF, than why does everyone think a guy like John Tenta is? I'm not taking any shots here, just making a point. He only had one tag team title run, sat on a snake and had a bunch of bad gimmicks.

Since nobody's addressed this yet, I'll try....

I think Tenta deserves it for several reasons

1 - Longevity, competed in the WWE and WCW through two different decades, usually in the mid-to-upper midcard range, except for his jobber status as Golga (but even then he had a push at times). NAO were jokes in 1997 until DX officially inducted them into the fold in 1998, their best year by far.

2 - Not only did he main event SummerSlam opposite Hulk Hogan, I THINK he had the distinction of never being pinned on PPV, only losing by DQ or countout over the years, or his partners taking the fall in tag matches. I could be wrong, though.

3 - Character. He was, by all accounts, a great guy who no one ever had a harsh word to say about. Not like NAO, who are a couple of bitter has-beens who do nothing but b***h about the very men who made them stars.

Just my opinions though. I disagree with a lot of HoF choices.

A lot of those credentials apply to Billy Gunn. He has the longevity, a KOTR title and a great character.

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

But how much of Gunn's longevity was him actually being popular, or, people b***hing about him being on TV?

Also he's basically the most useless/failed King of the Ring not named Mabel, if I remember correctly.

Great character? Yeah, he was decent when he had Road Dogg to play off of, but was he REALLY enjoyable as "King Ass" or "The One" or "I'm not gay, or AM I?"

[Michael Coello]

The NAO should sue Cena for stealing their gimmick.

Yeah, I got nothing.

[JLAJRC]

Yes, they are. Whether we like to admit it or not, they were a huge reason for the success of the attitude era of wrestling. They were massively over and held the championship.