10 Fascinating WWE King Of The Ring 1998 Facts

10. It Marked The Only PPV Match Where The Smoking Gunns Faced Each Other

For three years, Billy and Bart Gunn were figures of consistency in WWE's rather lacking tag team division. When the two split in 1996, a feud was imminent. Strangely enough, there was no pay-per-view blowoff. They each captained teams on the Survivor Series 1996 pre-show (with Bart pinning Billy), but the angle was abandoned after Billy was written out with a neck injury the following month.

In 1997, the rechristened "Rockabilly" defeated Bart in a nothing match on Raw; the feud was deader than disco. By the same time a year later, Billy was one-half of the transcendent New Age Outlaws, while Bart joined Bob Holly as the needless New Midnight Express.

The two teams faced off for the Outlaws' Tag Team titles at the 1998 King of the Ring, marking the only official pay-per-view match where the Gunns faced off (excluding their brief skirmish in the 1995 Royal Rumble match).