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[D-Generation X's music]

- D-Generation X.

- This is not your generation.

This is not the next generation.

This is D-Generation and X marks the spot.

- It's Sports Entertainment's most controversial faction.

- You make the rules and we will break 'em.

- Rebellious and rowdy group that did whatever they wanted,

whenever they wanted.

And through it all created unforgettable memories.

- D-Generation X invades WCW tonight.

- Today we count down the very best.

You ain't down with that, well-

- We got two words for you.

[crowd yells "Suck it."]

- This is WWE's Greatest Moments.

- Suck it.

[laughing]

- Acknowledge me.

- My God

Stone Cold with a beer bath.

- This is surreal.

- Look at this.

- He slammed him.

- Welcome to WWE greatest moments I'm Michael Cole,

and on this edition, we showcase the defining

moments of the most entertaining and crude faction of all time-

D-Generation X.

Originally comprised of Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Chyna,

DX debuted in 1997 and immediately bucked the

system, pushing the envelope with their sophomoric

shenanigans and lewd humor,

and in doing so became trailblazers

that revolutionized professional wrestling forever.

And our number ten spot on the countdown the moment

that DX was born.

- Bret Hart, obviously you're not

in a very good mood considering the antics

of Shawn Michaels and Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

Would you care to comment?

- We would love to comment.

Now before The Hitman puts a sleeper hold

on this crowd and puts them all to sleep.

We said what we wanted to say.

We were just going out there and kind of being idiots.

Well, I got some footage for you.

I don't want everybody to see this because nobody knows

Canada like I knows Canada.

[laughing]

We were hell bent on making it one way or the other,

and really didn't care if we stepped on toes.

Really didn't care if we said something inappropriate.

I'm younger than you.

- Everybody's younger than him.

- And I'm certainly bigger than you-

in more ways than one.

- Yeah, I can't say I liked it the show was going to be all

about them and they minimized everyone else

to entertain themselves.

- I'll give Bret Hart credit for basically naming DX

because Bret in a promo talked about, you know what you are,

"You're just degenerates."

- Why don't you two degenerates come down here right now-

- And that's where I remember sitting there with Vince and was

like,"They are they're they're degenerates.

They're D-Generation X."

DX was born.

- D-Generation X is that us?

D-Generation X, we are D-Generation X.

You make the rules and we will break 'em.

Yeah.

- As DX spread their wave of immaturity across the WWE,

nobody fell victim to their juvenile antics more

than WWE legend, an on screen commissioner-

Sgt. Slaughter.

- The Heartbreak Kid is going to come out here and walk naked.

- He's going to what?

- They were funny things we would do with Sarge because he

was the commissioner, and there were some things that I would

think to myself, "Maybe I shouldn't go there.

It might be a little bit too far."

- Bring that big, huge chin down here.

Then Sarge would come over laughing and say something ten

times worse to me and say, "You should say that you."

- Want Ken Shamrock in a match here next week on Raw.

- Hold on, hold on.

- You're out there doing promos with him on a weekly basis,

and you know, there's a bit of spittle.

- Saliva flies out of my mouth.

I can't help it.

My bite.

I got a terrible bite.

- It's one of those situations where you go,

"Am I the only one that's feeling that or?"

- So we wanted to take that as far as we possibly could.

- Let me get this straight again.

You want Ken Shamrock here next week?

- Hold on.

This is-

- What are these two degenerates up to now?

- And that's what made him so fantastic

that you can do something like that.

He rolls with it and gets a kick out of it.

Thinks it's funny.

Okay, we're ready.

- Now you can go.

- It's a sophomore class field trip.

- A lot of people hated the windshield wiper thing

when we did it.

Like, I just thought it was crossing a line-

disrespectful and childish.

Sarge thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.

It took everything in my power not to laugh in their face.

It was the most hilarious thing that I've ever seen in my life.

- Poor Sgt. Slaughter was always the butt of DX's jokes.

One night, when the Sarge tried to stand up to these

degenerates, he quickly learned DX doesn't follow the rules.

- You're either going to defend that title here tonight on Raw,

or I'm going to strip you of that title here tonight on Raw.

Your opponent tonight will be-

Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

- The European Title is on the line.

- And D-Generation X may be coming apart at the seams.

- Well, I was definitely excited.

Everybody was waiting for that moment, you know what I mean?

And they did make it look like they are going to fight.

- I can't wait to see when they finally lock up,

when they finally start tearing at each other.

What kind of accident we're going to see out of this match.

- Wait a minute.

- What the?

- I'm pretty sure they did a couple of

jaunts across the ring.

- Was Michaels just lying there?

It's a mockery.

- And then there was a big, big, big move that took Shawn down.

- Oh.

- It was a ruse.

- Hunter and Shawn celebrated like they won the world title,

but it was the European title.

- This is the greatest moment of my life.

Yo, Sarge.

I did it.

I did it.

- This is just another example of them getting over

on authority and outthinking the authority.

- Slaughter-

Standing there with egg on his face.

- It's nice to have the European Championship,

but if you can share it with a friend- better.

- Raging Against the Machine was the name of the game

for D-Generation X always wreaking havoc in WWE.

- Oh my God.

- Oh my God King.

- And our number seven moment DX took their obnoxious pranks

to new heights atop WWE headquarters.

- Oh, hey, Vince.

- Weird, you're there.

We're here.

Huh?

- Here-

Right on top of the World Wrestling Entertainment's

world headquarters.

- You're supposed to be at the airport damn it.

- We are D-Generation X, and if you're not down with that-

Then we've got two words for ya.

[crowd yells "Suck it."]

- Oh my God.

- But they did like-

How- physically,

how did they spray paint a huge DX-

The two of them?

I remember being a kid just thinking that just couldn't wrap

my head around it.

- Mr. McMahon is visibly shaken.

- We had giant sheets that would like unfurl coming down

from the top of the building.

And then you spray painted the X on there and.

- That was a blast, you know

we could do whatever we wanted.

We just had fun.

We were working with Vince and Shane and doing huge business.

- Look at the top of the building.

The full moon is out.

- That was the genius of D-Generation X.

It's all about doing things that you want to do

that you're not supposed to do.

- DX has done irreparable damage to the boss.

- I think DX- I think they've broken me.

[laughing]

- With the WWE universe all in on the fun.

DX would make quite a production of their antics

for our number six moment.

- Hunter, it's Vince's production truck.

The whole show is controlled from in here.

- Getting to see them sort of ruin this show and run roughshod

over Raw, which just TV we had never seen before.

- Which button did he tell you not to push?

- No, no.

Please.

- That one, that one.

Push it.

- No.

- It was driving Vince McMahon crazy.

- I'm gonna take care of DX.

I can guarantee you that.

No one is going to embarrass me like that ever again.

No one ever is going to-

- Anytime you get them around production in a truck, backstage

or something, you can be sure you're-

you're going to get some shenanigans.

And and specifically that night, you got some.

- Damn what you people think this is funny.

I'm not Alvin the chipmunk.

[farting noise]

- They stuff they used to pull back then,

um, you know, with the production and things like that

were just so entertaining, and it was just so outside of the

box and all of those things.

- They were sort of like the lovable bullies.

This was part of the charm of DX.

[knocking]

- Open up.

Oh.

- Uh oh.

- Hello.

- We return to the countdown with our fifth selection

of the greatest moments in D-Generation X's history.

Now, over the years, DX's founding members would invite

various superstars to join their crotch chopping faction.

But in 1998, DX shocked the WWE universe

when they unveiled their newest member.

- Ladies and gentlemen, "Iron" Mike Tyson.

- The entire world of sports came to a halt when the baddest

man on the planet entered the war zone.

- Whoa, here we go.

- Austin and the Tyson thing and it was huge.

He's one of the most famous men on the planet.

I don't know that there was a place in the world that didn't

know who Mike Tyson was.

- And Ty Cobb's open-

- Mike doing great, having fun, being a part of this promotion.

[D-Generation X's music]

- And what I'm doing right now.

I am calling your ass out right now,

right here, boy.

Obviously, involvement with Tyson made this thing huge.

- You want to do it?

Let's do it right now.

- Here we go.

- I'll tell you what-

when he and Shawn was squaring up in the ring, I was like,

"He's going to kill Shawn Michaels.

Oh my God."

- Well, this is not sanctioned

- Uh oh.

- Wait a minute.

- What?

- Don't tell me that Mike Tyson has joined D-Generation X.

- We had made Mike Tyson a member of DX.

"Oh my God, how could you do that?"

- We're hoodwinked.

- This crowd is still stunned.

- Oh, no.

The baddest man on the planet is part of DX.

You know the most degenerates on the planet.

- We're on top of the world.

- It's just electricity.

It was-was awesome.

I still get this-

"Take a picture like this, Mike."

I loved it.

- It turned out to be the biggest hoax

that I've ever seen in wrestling.

- Mike Tyson has joined D-Generation X.

- Chaos followed DX wherever they went.

So it was no surprise that just weeks later,

Tyson would turn on DX at WrestleMania 14.

- Tyson.

Tyson.

Tyson.

- With that loss, Triple H accused Shawn Michaels

of dropping the ball and ejecting him from the faction.

- HBK-

You dropped the ball.

And now the ball is in my court.

- And our number four moment, the self-declared new leader of

DX, was ready to bolster his army.

- Triple H of DX is going to make

a major announcement here tonight.

- At that point, I'm still seen as secondary to Shawn.

There were conversations that I knew that were happening

of like "Can he do that on his own?"

Tonight, live

in front of the world.

I form the DX Army.

An army to take care of business

that should have been taken care of right from the start.

- What's he saying JR.

- And when you start an army, you look

to the Kliq.

- What?

[crowd cheers]

- A new day is dawning for DX.

- You cannot replace the Shawn Michaels and I didn't.

I was just me.

And I was having a great time and people got with it.

This is a new beginning

for D-Generation X.

- There are numerous people now pitching ideas

to want to be a part of DX.

From our standpoint, Billy and Road Dogg were two guys

that would kind of fit.

- I mean, it just all worked.

And it wouldn't have worked with anybody else.

- Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.

None of us had the star power that Shawn Michaels had,

but all three of us kind of made up for that.

And it was a different dynamic.

- The number three moment of the countdown,

the moment that wrestling fans had long dreamt about

Monday Night War rivals DX and WCW's nWo in the same ring

for an epic showdown on the biggest stage.

What an absolutely historic moment.

- That match was unreal.

- And for the first time ever at WrestleMania, the match we

never, ever thought we'd see Triple H and Sting one on one.

- It involved legends from a bygone era,

factions from a bygone era.

- Oh my god, it's DX.

- What?

- DX came out and I could feel that rush in the whole deal, and

it started to become more of the WCW versus WWE.

- Sting what are you doing?

Sting jumping on top of all of DX?

- That's something we thought we'd never see.

- When the nWo music hit.

[nWo's music]

- Oh my God.

- As long as I kept the game face on, I'd have to just be a

fan and just sit there.

- The New World Order.

- A lot of that was like dream scenario,

like nWo versus DX.

- The Monday Night Wars have come to WrestleMania.

- Truly talked to the rivalry of WCW and WWE.

- Shawn Michaels, Sweet Chin Music.

- I think it helped the match and I think it was a huge

moment, and I'm so proud of being a part of it.

- Shoulders down and The Game prevails.

- There's a 15 year old kid inside of everybody.

That's what all of that was.

It is real, raw emotion.

- Look at these personalities, look at these superstars

in this ring at the same time.

- Was that acknowledgment on our end of forget the characters?

This is awesome for us.

- What an absolutely incredible moment.

- D-Generation X was often called the most controversial

group in WWE history, but their juvenile antics also created

some of the most hilarious moments in WWE.

As DX evolved over time, one thing remained the same.

DX never took no for an answer.

- Viewer discretion is advised-

- But will be completely ignored.

- And that was made clear from the very beginning,

when network television executives tried to censor

the unpredictable and at times, raunchy behavior

of D-Generation X.

- Good evening, my fellow Americans.

This past week, D-Generation X was informed

that TSN, Star TV,

Sky Sports and USA network is

drawing the line on standards

and practices as it relates to WWE programing

and D-Generation X.

It was our understanding that the USA network not being happy

with some of the things that we had done on television.

We will only use ass, damn, and hell.

- And we thought like,"Okay, this is fantastic,

let's push this envelope."

- We promise there will be less [bleep] references.

- Ah [bleep].

- It was just the right thing for that time period.

It was perfect.

Watch your [bleep] mouth.

- Well [bleep] me.

- [Bleep].

- I was glued to the TV watching, thinking this is a

moment that's going to stand the test of time because they're

doing something that they're not supposed to do.

- We will have less references to our enormous genitalia.

I remember getting a call, hey, just heard from USA,

and I was like,"Okay."

And then, like, "They loved it."

- I did not sleep with that young intern.

As a matter of fact, I was up all night.

[laughing]

- So here we are, the number one DX moment in our countdown.

At the height of the Monday Night War between WWE and WCW,

D-Generation X would break ground

by marching into enemy territory.

- It's got to be here.

- Making WWE true must see television.

- D-Generation X proudly

starts the war against WCW.

Go.

WCW is trying to hurt business.

We booked TV at a venue,

then they booked the Scope.

Right?

Just down the road.

And things are thrown out, like-

"We should go down there and do something

live in their parking lot."

D-Generation X and the World Wrestling - are in town.

- When we got there,

it was craziness.

The people just went nuts.

- Bischoff sucks.

Bischoff sucks.

Bischoff sucks.

D-Generation X, the only group in the world with the cojones

big enough to come to the front line.

And who rules the world of professional wrestling?

- DX.

- Yeah

- Of course it was really gutsy and it was really cool.

We had a blast that day doing that.

- We stand now at your door, knocking on that door

to let us in.

It's hard for people today to understand

how insane doing that was.

It was so like, "Holy [bleep]."

Knock knock knock WCW.

If you open the door,

we'd like to ask you a couple of questions.

- Woo hoo.

Woo hoo.

If they would have opened that door, I probably would have run

as fast as I could.

- Somebody said, "What if they try to do the same thing

back to us?"

"Open up the garage doors.

Let him in.

What show are you going to watch?

The one with all the wrestlers or the one

with none of the wrestlers?"

And I remember thinking at that moment, like,

"This is why we're going to win."

That's genius.

No way they would have ever thought about doing that.

Who rules professional wrestling?

- DX.

[cheering]

[chanting "DX"]

- DX is daring breach into WCW

Battlegrounds remain a landmark moment that captivated wrestling

fans around the world, fueled the WWE resurgence

to Sports Entertainment supremacy.

That'll do it for this edition

of WWE's Greatest Moments on A&E.

We hope you enjoyed this look back

at one of the iconic factions in WWE history-

DX.

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