During the Attitude Era there’s no denying that The Rock and Steve Austin were two of the biggest names in the business, and the New Age Outlaws also happened to be one of the most popular tag teams in WWE at the time.
During the October 25, 1999 episode of Monday Night Raw, the New Age Outlaws defended their WWE Tag Team Titles against Rock and Austin and Road Dogg recently recalled the bout on his Oh You Didn’t Know? podcast. The WWE Hall of Famer noted that he feels he wrongly considered that he belonged in the match at the time, and he also admitted that he was high during the main event.
“Of course not, I’m cruising. And truth be told, I wrongly considered myself belonging in that match. I mean, looking back now and you see like, okay, dawg, you are no Rock or Austin. But at the time, I was in the match with them, and I was high, so I thought I was equal to them.
Yeah, I mean, we look we, a lot of times, even on live events, we would go and we would main event the show in our tag title defence or whatever. Taker or Rock or Austin or whoever the real attraction was, would go on, like before intermission, and then they could shower and get dressed and leave or whatever, and we would close the show. And that was the way it just went that way.
And so this was, look, this was one of those times where I appreciated them thinking highly enough of us to put us on TV in that spot, you know what I mean? That says a lot, especially now knowing the importance of that spot and the importance of landscape on television period. And so having a somewhat of a grasp of that now, it’s really impressive to me that we were the main event of the show and a tag title, defence, you know what I mean? That’s cool to think about now, at the time, I just thought, I’m doing my job, and how do I quickly get out of here and get to the next town?”
