Road Dogg
Titles Won:
- WWE Tag Team Championship – with Billy Gunn
- WWF Hardcore Championship
- WWF Intercontinental Championship
- WWF Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Billy Gunn
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Ron Killings and Konnan
James was best known for his initial tenure with World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) as The Roadie from 1994 to 1995 and as “Road Dogg” Jesse James from 1996 to 2001. He is also known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as B.G. James from 2002 to 2009, and has also made appearances for several other promotions such as Smoky Mountain Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, the United States Wrestling Association, the Catch Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA).
James has held numerous championships in a career spanning more than three decades. In the WWF/E, he achieved mainstream notoriety as half of The New Age Outlaws (who became part of D-Generation X): he and partner Billy Gunn won the WWF World Tag Team Championship five times, and later held the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship once. Additionally, James found success in singles competition, becoming a one-time Intercontinental Champion and a one-time Hardcore Champion.
Following his 2001 departure from the WWF, James became the inaugural WWA World Heavyweight Champion before once again finding success as a tag team wrestler in TNA, where he was a two-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Tag Team Champion with Konnan and Ron Killings under the Freebird Rule as the 3 Live Kru. He twice competed for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on pay-per-view.
WWE commentator John Layfield charted James’s transition from “a cornerstone of the Attitude Era; one of its greatest stars and one of its architects”, to “one of the prime creative forces behind WWE”. James is a second generation wrestler; his father Bob wrestled, as did his brothers Scott, Brad, and Steve. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2019) as part of D-Generation X.
Notable Feuds
vs. Honky Tonk Man
w/ Billy Gunn vs. Legion of Doom
w/ Billy Gunn vs. Cactus Jack & Terry Funk
w/ Billy Gunn vs. LAX
w/ Billy Gunn vs. Team 3D
Other Notable Achievements
ACW Tag Team Championship – with Dysfunction
CWA World Tag Team Championship – with Cannonball Grizzly
CCWA/CWF World Heavyweight Championship
MCW Tag Team Championship – with Kip James
MWF Tag Team Championship – with Beau Douglas
NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
TWA Tag Team Championship – with Billy Gunn
USWA Heavyweight Championship
USWA Television Championship (2 times)
USWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Tracy Smothers
WWA World Heavyweight Championship
