These Brilliant AEW Success Stories Should Have SUCKED

10. Billy Gunn & His Sons

Somehow getting multiple newer acts as over in 2023 as he was in 1998, Billy Gunn's transition from Dad-to-two-idiot-kids to Daddy Ass-to-one-awesome-tag-team was far from seamless, but it was objectively successful.

After trying for a time to maintain order between The Acclaimed and The Gunn Club, the WWE Hall Of Famer turned on Max Caster and Anthony Bowens to side with his biological boys. Fortunately for the fans (and the company's merch-related income), the reunion was short-lived. Realising that he'd rather use his guiding hand for scissoring, AEW's original Big Bill saw the light and once again saw gold.

Aiding The Acclaimed in Tag and Trios Championship victories, Gunn got to see his kids thrive in the aftermath too. The future Bullet Club Gold men dethroned Caster and Bowens in order to transition the belts onto FTR in early-2023, and have finally found their place on the roster since shockingly linking up with Jay White and Juice Robinson.

Authored by Michael Hamflett

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Posted On: 5th Oct 2023

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