This article is about the professional wrestler. For other people, see William Gunn.
Billy Gunn
Gunn in 2022
Birth name
Monty Sopp[1]
Born
(1963-11-01) November 1, 1963 (age 60)[2][3] Orlando, Florida, U.S.[3]
Alma mater
Sam Houston State University
Spouse(s)
Tina Tinnell
(m. 1990; div. 2002)
Paula Sopp
(m. 2009)
Children
Colten Gunn
Austin Gunn
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Billy[3] Billy G[3] Billy Gunn[4] Cute Kip[3] Daddy Ass[5] KIP[3] Kip Gunn[3][6] Kip James[3] Kip Montana[3] Kip Sopp[4] Kip Winchester[3] Mr. Ass[3] The G-Man[3] The New Age Outlaw[3] The Outlaw[4] Rockabilly[7]
Billed height
6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[7]
Billed weight
260 lb (118 kg)[7]
Billed from
Austin, Texas Orlando, Florida[7]
Trained by
Jerry Gray[3] Don Harris[3] Ron Harris[3]
Debut
1989
Monty "Kip" Sopp[1] (born November 1, 1963),[2] better known by his ring name Billy Gunn, is an American professional wrestler and coach currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he also performs under the ring name Daddy Ass. He is a member of The Acclaimed as a manager and the team's six-man tag team partner.
He was previously known for his tenures in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) from 1993 to 2004 and from 2012 to 2015, while also serving as a coach on WWE's Tough Enough and was a trainer in NXT. He also wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2005 to 2009.
Primarily a tag team wrestler, Gunn is an overall 11-time tag team champion in WWE with three different partners (with Bart Gunn as The Smoking Gunns; with Road Dogg as The New Age Outlaws; and with Chuck Palumbo as Billy and Chuck). He is also a former one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion and a two-time WWF Hardcore Champion, giving him 14 total championships in WWE. He also won the 1999 King of the Ring tournament, and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019 as a member of D-Generation X. At AEW, Gunn is a former one-time and longest reigning AEW World Trios Champions with The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens).
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Monty "Kip" Sopp (born November 1, 1963), better known by his ring name BillyGunn, is an American professional wrestler and coach currently signed to All...
brothers Austin and Colten Gunn, who are the sons of professional wrestler BillyGunn. They are currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where they are...
better known as BillyGunn. Sopp was born on August 26, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. He is a son of professional wrestler BillyGunn and Tina Tinnell Sopp...
wrestler, being the son of professional wrestler Monty Sopp, better known as BillyGunn. Sopp attended Florida State University, graduating in 2013. Prior to...
the title by defeating The Acclaimed (Max Caster, Anthony Bowens, and BillyGunn) in a Winners Take All unification match also for Bullet Club Gold's ROH...
and Anthony Bowens – who comprise the main tag team of the group – and BillyGunn, who serves as their manager and wrestles as their partner for six-man...
Wrestling Federation as one-half of the tag team The Smoking Gunns with his kayfabe brother BillyGunn. They made their debut in April 1993 The team won the...
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up of Brian James ("Road Dogg" Jesse James) and Monty Sopp ("Badd Ass" BillyGunn). The duo became popular in the late 1990s as members of the second incarnation...
Bowens, Max Caster, and BillyGunn) faced ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions Bullet Club Gold (Jay White, Austin Gunn, and Colten Gunn) in a Winners Take...
Billy and Chuck were a professional wrestling tag team of BillyGunn and Chuck Palumbo who performed in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/WWE)...
The Smoking Gunns were a professional wrestling tag team of kayfabe brothers BillyGunn (Monty Sopp) and Bart Gunn (Mike Polchlopek). They portrayed cowboys...
eventually lose the titles to The Gunn Club. They would also end up forming an alliance with BillyGunn, Austin and Colten Gunn's biological father, where he...
The New Age Outlaws (who became part of D-Generation X): he and partner BillyGunn won the WWF World Tag Team Championship five times, and later held the...
the title by defeating The Acclaimed (Max Caster, Anthony Bowens, and BillyGunn) in a Winners Take All unification match also for Bullet Club Gold's ROH...
Champions Bullet Club Gold (Jay White, Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) defeated Caster, Bowens, and Billy for the AEW World Trios Championship in a winner...
"Bad Ass" BillyGunn lost the WWF Tag Team Championship to The Corporation, they tried their hand at singles wrestling for some time. Gunn failed in his...