10 Obscure WWE Tag Teams You Totally Don't Remember
3. The Show-Gunns
From Shoguns to Show-Gunns.
Big Show and Billy Gunn were two workers who had hit the skids as singles stars when they plopped out that tag team name in mid-2001. Reportedly, it was Show who came up with it, but even he had to realise things were not going well almost immediately. Like many teams here, Show-Gunns struggled to get fans to stir.
Gunn wasn't the ultra-cool degenerate he'd been between 1997-2000, and Show's career was in the toilet following time on the shelf before returning at Royal Rumble '01. Management, surely knowing they had to do something with both men, tried them on for size as a tag.
Yeah, it tanked. Show-Gunns only lasted for a few months before the WWF moved in a different direction and both went back to solo careers. This wasn't the second coming of New Age Outlaws magic for Billy. No-one could've predicted he'd become one of the most over acts in wrestling as part of The Acclaimed a full 22 years later.