Mick Foley recalls Shawn Michaels "browbeating" Vince Russo after The New Age Outlaws' WWE WrestleMania 14 loss
Mick Foley recently recalled a conversation he had with former WWE writer Vince Russo about D-Generation X in 1998.
Shawn Michaels took a hiatus after losing the WWE Championship to Stone Cold Steve Austin in the WrestleMania 14 main event. The following night, The New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) joined Chyna, Triple H, and X-Pac in a new-look D-Generation X without Michaels.
Foley (aka Cactus Jack) and Terry Funk (aka Chainsaw Charlie) defeated The New Age Outlaws in a Dumpster Match at WrestleMania 14. On the latest episode of his podcast, Foley said Michaels was unhappy with The New Age Outlaws losing the match:
"Vince Russo was really bummed out at the post-Mania party. 'Hey, Vince, what's wrong?' and he was really down. He'd received a browbeating from Shawn Michaels about how they'd really weakened DX. I guess Shawn knew that Road Dogg and Billy were joining. Man, within 24 hours, they had every bit of heat back and then some, tenfold." [16:41 – 17:09]
In 2017, Russo told Fightful that Michaels and Triple H initially wanted "absolutely no part" of Billy Gunn and Road Dogg in D-Generation X. He said the tag team had to prove themselves to the group's original members after Vince McMahon suggested they join the faction.
D-Generation X became WWE Hall of Famers in 2019
The legendary group formed on October 13, 1997. It initially consisted of Chyna, Shawn Michaels, Rick Rude, and Triple H. However, Rude left a month later when he joined WWE's rivals WCW.
Billy Gunn, Chyna (posthumous), Michaels, Road Dogg, Triple H, and X-Pac were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019 as D-Generation X members.
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Michaels, Road Dogg, Triple H, and X-Pac reunited on the 30th-anniversary episode of RAW in January. Fellow WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle jokingly tagged along to take the place of Gunn, who did not attend due to his AEW contract.
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