Two Dudes with Attitudes: Difference between revisions

|caption = [[Shawn Michaels]] (left) and [[Kevin Nash]] (right) as [[World Tag Team Championship (WWE, 1971–2010)|WWF Tag Team Champions]] in September 1994

|names = Shawn Michaels and Diesel<ref name="WWETag1"/><ref name="WWETag2"/><br/>Two Dudes with Attitudes & New Look New Attitude<br/>Dynamic Duo<ref name="WWE"/><ref name="Roopansingh"/><br/>[[New World Order (professional wrestling)|nWo]]<ref name="WWETag1"/><ref name="WWETag2"/><br/>Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash<br />Bronx Thugs (Unused in 1995)

[[Kevin Nash]] and [[Shawn Michaels]] formed a [[tag team]], also known as '''Two Dudes with Attitudes''' that competed in the [[WWE|World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF, now known as WWE) in 1994 and again in 1995 through March 1996, with a brief reunion in 2002 as a sub-group of the [[New World Order (professional wrestling)|New World Order]] stable.<ref name="WWE">{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2011-11-14/hbk-waltman-nash-triple-h|title=Shawn Michaels, Sean Waltman discuss the war between Triple H and Kevin Nash|author=Murphy, Ryan|work=[[WWE]] |date=November 17, 2011|access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Roopansingh">{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2004/03/14/pf-381425.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140118222753/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2004/03/14/pf-381425.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 18, 2014|title=Shawn Michaels, still the show-stopper|author=Roopansingh, Jaya|publisher=[[Québecor Média]]|work=[[Canoe.ca]]|date=March 14, 2004|access-date=September 15, 2013}}</ref> The team held the [[World Tag Team Championship (WWE, 1971–2010)|WWF Tag Team Championship]] [[List of World Tag Team Champions (WWE)|twice]],<ref name="WWETag1"/><ref name="WWETag2"/> but also found success in singles competition while still allied with one another, as Nash held the [[WWE Championship|WWF Championship]] and [[WWE Intercontinental Championship|Intercontinental Championship]] once each and Michaels held the Intercontinental Championship [[List of WWE Intercontinental Champions|twice]].

The two would becamebecome a tag team when Michaels and Nash defeated [[The Headshrinkers]] at a [[house show]], winning the [[World Tag Team Championship (WWE, 1971–2010)|WWF Tag Team Championship]] on August 28, 1994 in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]].<ref name="WWETag1">{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/worldtagteam/304454132125 |title=World Tag Team Championship - Diesel & Shawn Michaels |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref>

On the April 3, 1995 episode of [[WWE Raw|Monday Night Raw]], Nash assisted Michaels from an attack from his [[kayfabe]] bodyguard, [[Sid Eudy|Sid]], this would lead to a lengthy feud from various episodes of [[Raw (WWE brand)|Raw]] to [[In Your House 1|In Your House: Premiere]] and [[In Your House 2|In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/videos/list-this-hardest-hitting-betrayals-7-sycho-sid-turns-on-shawn-michaels-raw-4395-8186174|title=List This! Hardest Hitting Betrayals #7: Sycho Sid turns on Shawn Michaels - Raw 4/3/95|work=[[WWE]] |date=November 17, 2011|access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref>

Later that same year on September 11 the duo they would dub themselves after [[WWE Raw|Raw's New Fall Season]] by The name New Look New Attitude, Thugs with Attitude with Nash and Michaels would dub themselves "Two Dudes with Attitudes." At [[In Your House 3]] on September 24, 1995, where they challenged WWF Tag Team Champions [[Owen Hart and Yokozuna]]. Nash and Michaels won the match and the WWF Tag Team Championship, but had to return it to Hart and Yokozuna the next day on a [[Legal technicality|technicality]] following [[lobbying]] from Hart's and Yokozuna's lawyer, [[Clarence Mason]].<ref name="WWETag2">{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/worldtagteam/3044541321224|title=World Tag Team Championship - Diesel & Shawn Michaels |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref><ref name="WWETag3">{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/worldtagteam/30445413212123|title=World Tag Team Championship - Owen Hart & Yokozuna |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 19, 2014}}</ref>

** [[World Tag Team Championship (WWE, 1971–2010)|WWF Tag Team Championship]] ([[List of World Tag Team Champions (WWE)|2 times]])<ref name="WWETag1"/><ref name="WWETag2"/>

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