Two Dudes with Attitudes
professional wrestling tag team
Kevin Nash and Shawn Michaels formed a tag team, also known as Two Dudes with Attitudes that competed in the 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 stable. The team held the WWF Tag Team Championship twice, but also found success in singles competition while still allied with one another, as Nash held the WWF Championship and Intercontinental Championship once each and Michaels held the Intercontinental Championship twice.
History
First run (1993–1994)
The two first got together in mid-1993, when Nash (then known by Diesel) became a bodyguard for Shawn Michaels, who had won the Intercontinental Championship Nash helped Michaels win the Intercontinental Championship from Marty Jannetty on June 6, 1993. In mid-1994, Michaels acted as Nash's manager, leading him to win the Intercontinental Championship from Scott Hall.
The two would become a tag team when Michaels and Nash defeated The Headshrinkers at a house show, winning the WWF Tag Team Championship on August 28, 1994 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
At Survivor Series on November 23, 1994, Michaels accidentally hit Nash with a superkick, which lead to the team splitting, vacating the WWF Tag Team Championship title.
Second run (1995-1996)
In early 1995, Michaels and Nash feuded over the WWF Championship. Michaels won the Royal Rumble and unsuccessfully challenged Nash in a title match at WrestleMania XI on April 2, 1995.
On the April 3, 1995 episode of Monday Night Raw, Nash assisted Michaels from an attack from his kayfabe bodyguard, Sid Eudy.
Later that same year, 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.
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