For years the New Age Outlaws were one of the top tag teams in WWE, but Road Dogg parted ways with the company in 2001, and he went on to debut with TNA Wrestling in 2002. Billy Gunn debuted with the company in 2005, and eventually they reunited as a tag team known as the Voodoo Kin Mafia.
Throughout their run as the Voodoo Kin Mafia, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn would often take shots at Triple H and Shawn Michaels. In 2011, Road Dogg returned to WWE, and he was recently asked during an appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet if he had to mend some fences when he returned to the company.
“So it wasn’t hard at all. After I went there to TNA Wrestling, and we were the Voodoo Kin Mafia, I said horrible things about him and Shawn and the whole deal. For one thing, I don’t think they ever watched or saw it. I don’t think they cared, because the front runner doesn’t look back. So I don’t think they really cared, but it literally was a conversation that happened when I came back. He literally sat me down and said, What was all that? I said Hey man, I was high. I was just trying to make a living, and that was the truth. I wasn’t going to fight nobody. I’m not going to go fight somebody, but we were supposed to meet him at the Alamo.”
Road Dogg went on to commend Triple H for not making a big deal of the situation when he added, “100%. Again, I commend his [Triple H], I don’t know how to say level-headedness in any other way, but he can look past that superficial nothingness because it was nothing and nothing became of it. He sees value in me and said, ‘Hey, do you want to come back?’ This was the conversation we had when I came back after I guess 2011. ‘Hey, do you want to come back and make some fun TV like we used to do in DX?’ And I said, yeah, I want to. And he goes, Okay. And there it was just off and running.
“Me and him were the kind of the guys behind all the backstage stuff of DX. Chyna would chime in too because she’s hilarious. X-Pac and Billy were always there and on point. But it was when we were setting it up and how the camera was going to come in here, it was always just me and him talk, shooting the breeze and doing it. So it was natural for him to make that call and go, Hey, you want to do that again, and yeah, I do, it’s a blast.”