Bio
Billy Gunn is an American professional wrestler who is best known for his time in WWE mostly during the Attitude Era as a part of D Generation X and also a big part of the famous tag team The New Age Outlaws. He has also worked in major professional wrestling promotions like TNA Wrestling and AEW, he also won multiple prestigious championships.
Billy Gunn Height, Weight, Age & More:
The billed height of Gunn is 6’4″ and his billed weight is 260 lbs. He was born on November 1, 1963 and currently the former 11 times WWE Tag Team Champion is 60 year old. He had been a top star of WWE during the famous Attitude Era of the promotion. He has also worked in major wrestling promotions like AEW and TNA Wrestling.
Billy Gunn: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Net Worth, Family, Injury Details, Tattoo, and Other Unknown Facts
Billy Gunn Early Life
Gunn was born on November 1, 1963 and currently the winner of the King of the Ring tournament of 1999 is 60 year old. Orlando, Florida is the place where Billy Gunn born. He attempted to pursue a career in professional Bull Riding before joining wrestling but in his mid 20s he stopped Bull Riding and joined professional wrestling.
Who is Billy Gunn
Billy Gunn is a 60 year old American professional wrestler who is presently active in All Elite Wrestling AEW. He has worked in also worked in other major wrestling promotions like WWE and TNA Wrestling. He is considered one of the biggest tag team legends in wrestling history and he is known among wrestling fans for being a part of famous wrestling tag teams like The Smoking Gunns and The New Age Outlaws.
Billy Gunn WWE Debut
Gunn signed a professional contract with WWE back in 1993 and he made his WWE debut in May of the same year. He teamed up with Bart Gunn on his first match in the promotion who had presented as his storyline brother. Their first match was against the team of Tony Vadja and Glenn Ruth. The Smoking Gunns were victorious in this match.
Professional Wrestling Career
Pre Wrestling Career
Before joining the world of professional wrestling, Gunn attempted to pursue a career in Bull Riding. He trained to be a professional Bull Rider when he was in High School. He started having a stint in the professional Bull Riding Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Ultimately by his mid 20s, he decided to quit his Bull Riding dreams and become a professional wrestler.
Early Career, WCW
Gunn started receiving his training for professional wrestling from Jerry Gray; one of the most famous professional wrestling trainers of the time. Soon he made his independent circuit debut and he spent a total of eight years on the independent circuit. He also got the opportunity to work in WCW as an enhancement talent. He had been pretty impressive from the very first day of joining professional wrestling.
Joining WWE, The Smoking Gunns
In 1993 he got the opportunity to work in WWE for the first time as he signed a professional contract with the promotion. In May of the same year, he made his WWE debut alongside Bart Gunn. They were presented as on screen brothers. Together they were known as The Smoking Gunns. They were one of the top Tag Team of their time and they won multiple Tag Team Championship successes in WWE.
Billy Gunn and Bart Gunn worked as a tag team for the next three years and they were extremely famous among the WWE fans during the time by the name The Smoking Gunns. Together they had been three times WWE Tag Team Champions. They are still remembered as one of the best tag teams of the New Generation era of WWE.
Injury and Return
Gunns were also regularly managed by Sunny who had been one of the most famous professional wrestling managers during the time. The team ended by 1996 and they ended up feuding with each other. Gunn was forced to take some time off due to an injury after this feud and he returned to action at WrestleMania 13 where he started his singles run by defeating Flash Funk.
Professional Information Table
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Ring Name |
Billy Gunn |
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Billy Gunn Nick Names |
Badd Ass, Mr. Ass |
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Profession(s) |
Professional Wrestler |
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Billy Gunn Height |
6’3” |
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Billy Gunn Weight |
260 lbs. |
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Relationship Status |
Married |
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Billy Gunn Net Worth |
$3 Million |
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Billy Gunn Eye Color |
Blue |
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Hair Color |
Blonde |
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Wrestling Debut |
1989 |
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Mentor |
* |
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Billy Gunn Signature Moves |
Back Body Drop, Cutter, Fallaway Slam, Front Powerslam |
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Finishing Move(s) |
Gunnslinger, Famouser, One and Only, Missouri Boat Ride |
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Theme Song / Billy Gunn Song / Billy Gunn Music |
The Gunn Club (AEW), I’ve Got It All, Ass Man (WWE) |
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Catchphrases |
*
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Billy Gunn Net Worth & Salary
According to reports from various media sources, the current net worth of Gunn is estimated to be somewhere around $3 million. Reports also suggest that he earns something around $500,000 as his annual salary in the promotion. He is presently active in All Elite Wrestling AEW since 2019 and he is doing pretty well at the age of 60.
Billy Gunn Family
Gunn was born on November 1, 1963 in Orlando, Florida. Gunn does not like to share much information about his previous life and he prefers to keep things private. There is not enough information available about his previous life. Bart Gunn had been presented as his brother during his early career. But they are just storyline brother just like The Undertaker and Kane.
Championships and Accomplishments
Gunn had been really successful in terms of winning championships in the world of professional wrestling. He has won many championships from major wrestling promotions as well as from the independent circuit. He had been an extremely successful tag team wrestler as he won a total of 11 Tag Team titles from WWE. He has also won other big titles from WWE like the Intercontinental Championship and the King of the Ring tournament of 1999.
Championships and Accomplishments Table
| Championships and Accomplishments / Trophy (WWE) | WWF Hardcore Championship (2 times), WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time), WWF Intercontinental Championship (1 time), WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Road Dogg, WWF/E Tag Team Championship (10 times) – with Bart Gunn (3), Road Dogg (5) and Chuck (2), King of the Ring (1999), Raw Bowl – with Bart Gunn, WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2019) – as a member of D-Generation X |
| Awards & Achievements (Outside WWE) | AEW World Trios Championship (1 time, current) – with Max Caster and Anthony Bowens, APWA American Championship (1 time)
BBFW Aruba Championship (1 time), BBFW Aruba Championship Tournament (2012) IWF Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Brett Colt FPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Road Dogg MCW Rage Television Championship (1 time), MCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with B.G. James NSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Pro Wrestling Illustrated – Tag Team of the Year (1998), Tag Team of the Year (2002) with Chuck, Ranked #39 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1999, Ranked #231 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the “PWI Years” in 2003, Ranked #43 of the top 100 tag teams of the “PWI Years” with Road Dogg in 2003 SPW World Heavyweight Championship TWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with B.G. James VCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) WPW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Wrestling Observer Newsletter – Worst Worked Match of the Year (2006) TNA Reverse Battle Royal on TNA Impact! |
| Records | King of The Ring 1999, Eleven Times WWE Tag Team Champion, One Time WWE Intercontinental Champion |
Personal life & Lifestyle
Much like Billy Gunn, two of his sons Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn are also famous professional wrestlers. Both of them have been active in the wrestling world since 2019 and 2020. They have worked in major wrestling promotions like Ring of Honor and All Elite Wrestling. The two brothers have mostly worked as a team and they won multiple championships together.
Personal Information Table
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Billy Gunn Real Name / Full Name |
Monty Sopp |
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Birth Date
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November 1, 1963 |
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Billy Gunn Age |
60 |
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Relationship Status |
Married |
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Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
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Birthplace |
Orlando, Florida |
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Nationality |
American |
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Hometown |
Orlando, Florida |
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School/College/University |
Oviedo High School |
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Educational Qualification |
Not known |
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Religion |
Not known |
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Billy Gunn Ethnicity |
White |
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Current Residence |
Orlando, Florida |
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Hobbies |
Not known |
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Billy Gunn Tattoo |
* |
Billy Gunn Movies and TV Shows
Gunn did not work in many movies or television series but he did get the opportunity to work in a couple of movies and also in a television series. The first acting opportunity he got was back in Sabrina The Teenage Witch in the year 2000. He also appeared in the movies Double Fury in 2010 and The Other Guys in 2012.
Billy Gunn Wife
Gunn got married twice in his life. The first time he got married was back in 1990 to Tina Tinnell. He has two from his first marriage; Colten Gunn and Austin Gunn. Both of them are professional wrestlers. Tina Tinnell and Gunn got divorced in 2002. In 2009, Gunn got married again, and this time to Paula Sopp. They are living happily together for the last 15 years.
Main Event Success
The New Age Outlaws
After returning to action at WrestleMania 13 after an injury, Gunn attempted to pursue a single career. One of his early singles rivalries from 1997 was against “The Road Dogg” Jesse James. The feud was short and after the end of this feud, the duo started working as a team, together they were famously known as The New Age Outlaws. Gunn also got a nickname during the time which was “Bad Ass”. He was even addressed as Mr. Ass at a point.
Tag Team Success
Gunn was already an established name as a tag team wrestler since he had immense success while teaming up with Bart Gunn previously, and once again he became successful as a team, this time with Road Dogg. The New Age Outlaws went on to become one of the most famous tag teams of the Attitude Era and they had an excellent rivalry with some of the top tag teams of their time.
D Generation X, Singles Success
Soon, they became a part of D Generation X which was a famous faction from The Attitude Era. Their success even increased after becoming a part of this faction. The New Age Outlaws won the WWE Tag Team Championship five times in total during The Attitude Era. WWE even attempted to push Gunn as a singles competitor. He shocked the entire world when he won the King of the Ring tournament in 1999. Ultimately the experiment failed and Gunn failed to become a successful singles wrestler.
Billy & Chuck
Gunn might have failed to earn success as a singles wrestler, but he had been extremely successful as a tag team wrestler. He won a total of 11 Tag Team Championship titles in his WWE career. He also earned success along with Chuck Palumbo as a tag team and together they were known as Billy & Chuck. WWE attempted to push him as a single wrestler once again in 2004, but once again the experiment failed.
TNA & AEW Career, Recent Days
He joined TNA wrestling in 2005 and he spent a total of 4 years in the promotion. He also worked on the independent circuit a number of times. He returned to WWE in 2012 to spend 3 years in the promotion. In 2019 he joined the newly opened professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling AEW and he is still active in the promotion at the age of 60. Even at this age, he is doing really well.
Iconic Quotes From Billy Gunn
“I guess the only thing I really think of, is that when people look back, or think about me, that I just did the best that I could. It really wasn’t all about me. It was about making other people good, or helping other people, or that at least my work was good and not crappy.”
“When I got into this business, I was the worst skeptic of all time. I didn’t grow up wanting to do it. I wasn’t born, and then saw Hulk Hogan or Bruno Sammartino on the TV and went ‘Oh my God! That’s what I want to do with my life!’ I just never did that.”
“For me, a big part of coaching is having a trust for the students that are in your class. If they trust you, and you don’t talk beneath them, you can create an even playing field. Yes, what I say goes, but there has to be an open discussion.”
“Before I got into WWE I was training horses and doing stuff like that, so working out was never a part of my life. Once I got into the WWE, I realized that if I wanted to do this for a while, I had to start training.”
“No matter what people say about our sport, it is definitely grueling. It’s an everyday thing, and it isn’t seasonal. It’s not like we go for a couple months and then we have a couple months off – we go from January 1 to January 1.”
“If you’re under a bunch a stress and you’re in a straight line and you’re not willing to go off, sometimes you gotta wander off and you’re not afraid to fail and you’re willing to explore different avenues, that’s when all the great stuff happens.”
“There were five members of DX, and we all clicked and we all knew our positioning. We all worked together to make something special, and we knew how to feed off each other to make it work.”
Notable Feuds and Rivalries of Billy Gunn
Gunn had been an active professional wrestler for more than three decades and he had multiple big rivalries with some of the biggest names in professional wrestling. He has worked as both a singles and a Tag Team wrestler. As a singles wrestler, he had rivalries with both of his famous Tag Team partners; Bart Gunn and Road Dogg. WWE desperately attempted to push him as a single wrestler in 1999 and he also won the WWE King of the Ring tournament of the same year.
Gunn mostly earned success as a tag team wrestler as he teamed up with multiple wrestlers to win multiple Tag Team titles. During the Attitude Era, he had big feuds with top teams of the time like The Hardy Boyz and Kane & X-Pac. After he returned to the promotion during the PG Era and teamed up with Road Dogg again, they had an excellent rivalry with The Shield. They even won the WWE Tag Team Championship one time during this run.
Billy Gunn Injury
Much like most of the professional wrestlers, Gunn has suffered multiple injuries throughout his wrestling career. He suffered an injury in December 1996 which kept him out of action for over three months. After The Smoking Gunns split, the duo started working as rivals. During a match between the two in an episode of RAW, Gunn suffered an injury.
Other Details
Gunn has appeared in multiple wrestling video games as playable characters. The first ever video game in appeared in was WWF Attitude released back in 1999. Since then, he has appeared in many video games. The last WWE video game he appeared in was WWE 2K17. After that he left the promotion and did not appeared in any other wrestling video game under WWE’s banner.
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Billy Gunn Salary |
$500,000 |
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Brand Endorsements |
AEW Merchandise |
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Sponsors |
* |
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Charity |
Children’s Welfare and other various charities |
Billy Gunn Social Media Accounts
Gunn is active on Instagram from a verified account. There is an account in Twitter by his name which is not verified, even though it is believed to be his real account. His Twitter account has a total following of 320.8K and his verified Instagram has a total following of 203K. Here are links of his social media accounts where you can follow him. Billy Gunn Twitter, Billy Gunn Instagram.
Billy Gunn Win Loss Record
| Promotion | Win % | Draw % | Loss % |
| 2CW | 1 (50.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (50.00%) |
| AEW | 76 (79.17%) | 0 (0.00%) | 20 (20.83%) |
| AEW/NJPW | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| AIW | 1 (50.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (50.00%) |
| APW | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| Bar Wrestling | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| BBWF | 2 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| CHIKARA | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| DREAMWAVE | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| DWW | 2 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| FWE | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| GLCW | 2 (50.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 2 (50.00%) |
| Heroes & Legends | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| House Of Hardcore | 16 (80.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 4 (20.00%) |
| House Of Hardcore/Impact | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| IWA-MS | 7 (70.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 3 (30.00%) |
| IWA-MS/NWA No Limits | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| JAPW | 2 (66.67%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (33.33%) |
| JCW | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| Jericho Cruise | 2 (66.67%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (33.33%) |
| LL USA | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 2 (100.00%) |
| N/A | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| NEW | 7 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| NJPW | 7 (33.33%) | 0 (0.00%) | 14 (66.67%) |
| NXT | 3 (60.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 2 (40.00%) |
| OVW | 2 (40.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 3 (60.00%) |
| Prestige | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| Pro Wrestling Superstars | 1 (50.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (50.00%) |
| PWS | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| TNA | 30 (40.54%) | 1 (1.35%) | 43 (58.11%) |
| UWF (Carolina) | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| UWF (Carolina)/TNA | 5 (62.50%) | 0 (0.00%) | 3 (37.50%) |
| WCPBTW | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| WildKat Sports | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| WrestleCade | 1 (50.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (50.00%) |
| WrestleCon | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| Wrestling Revolver | 2 (66.67%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (33.33%) |
| WWE | 70 (56.00%) | 2 (1.60%) | 53 (42.40%) |
| WWF | 423 (61.57%) | 22 (3.20%) | 242 (35.23%) |
| WWF/IWA Puerto Rico | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 2 (100.00%) |
| WWFX | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 1 (100.00%) |
| WXw | 1 (100.00%) | 0 (0.00%) | 0 (0.00%) |
| TOTAL | 673 (60.85%) | 25 (2.26%) | 408 (36.89%) |
Billy Gunn Manager
Gunn had been managed by various names throughout his professional wrestlers. But in most cases, he had been managed by his fellow professional wrestlers. He has earned most of his success as a tag team wrestler and throughout his wrestling career, he had mostly been managed by his teammates during his matches.
FAQS
Q. When did Billy Gunn start wrestling?
A. Billy Gunn started working in 1989
Q. How tall is Billy Gunn in feet?
A. Billy Gunn is 6’3” tall in feet
Q. Who is Billy Gunn manager?
A. Billy Gunn had been managed by various names like Sunny and his former Tag Team partners like “The Road Dogg” Jesse James
Q. What is current Billy Gunn song?
A. Billy Gunn uses the song ‘The Gunn Club’ in AEW
Q. Who is Billy Gunn mother?
A. Not known
Q. Who is Billy Gunn father?
A. Not known
Q. Who is currently Billy Gunn girlfriend?
A. Billy Gunn is currently married to Paula Sopp
Q. Who is Billy Gunn brother?
A. Not known
Q. How much is Billy Gunn worth?
A. Billy Gunn’s net worth is something around $3m
Q. How many times Billy Gunn won the NXT title?
A. Billy Gunn had been a two times NXT Champion