of DX through her ties to Triple H. When Kane's storyline girlfriend Tori began to get involved in the feud between Kane and X-Pac, Triple H and Stephanie punished her by scheduling her in a match with X-Pac on the December 16 episode of SmackDown!, after which they would grant Kane a WWF Championship match against The Big Show on the December 20 episode of Raw where if he lost, Tori would have to spend Christmas with X-Pac. The New Age Outlaws distracted Kane, costing him the match, and when Tori returned, she insisted the X-Pac had been a perfect gentleman. By January 2000, Triple H had dubbed himself "The Game", after stating he was above the top of the wrestling world (as in not merely the "best in the game", but in fact "the game" itself) and was nicknamed "The Cerebral Assassin" by Jim Ross. On the January 3 episode of Raw Is War, Triple H defeated Big Show to win his third WWF Championship. Meanwhile, storylines implied that X-Pac had truly done something harmful to Tori when she started appearing as neurotic and paranoid, with many WWF superstars using Tori's mental state to provoke Kane into attacking their enemies over the ensuing month. X-Pac also gave Tori an apparently forced kiss during his match with Kane on the January 24 episode of Raw. This storyline culminated on the January 27 episode of SmackDown!, when DX jumped Kane during another match against Big Show, leading to a promo where X-Pac recounted his Christmas rendez-vous with Tori; Tori then passionately kissed X-Pac, turning on Kane and joining D-X in the process. Throughout this period, D-X would feud with the likes of The Rock, Mankind/Cactus Jack, Chris Jericho, Kane and the other McMahons, primarily securing and protecting Triple H's WWF Championship as well as The Outlaws' WWF Tag Team Championship. They would also arrive at arenas in a tour bus called "The D-X Express". During a match at No Way Out where The Outlaws lost the Tag Team Championship to The Dudley Boyz, Gunn suffered a torn rotator cuff which would place him out of action for several months. On-screen, to explain his impending absence to recover from his injury, Gunn's storyline involved him getting thrown out of D-X because "he lost his cool" when Triple H had X-Pac take his place in the rematch. X-Pac teamed with Road Dogg once