10 Wrestlers With Longest Time Between First & Last WWE Raw Matches

9. Billy Gunn - 20 Years, 9 Months, 15 Days

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First Raw Match: May 17th, 1993

Last Raw Match: March 3rd, 2014

Tag wrestler extraordinaire Billy Gunn found his career in remarkable fettle when a New Age Outlaws reunion in 2013 somehow resulted in a final Tag Team Championship run gifted after just weeks back in the beloved role. It took his original unit much longer to reach that same apex following a clandestine and functional Raw debut against jobber pair Glen Ruth (AKA Headbanger Thrasher) & Tony Vajda.

The Smoking Gunns walked a fine line between Sports Entertainment silliness and solid Pro Wrestling pretty well for most of 1993 and 1994, but their decent matches didn't render them worthy of belts being battled for by the likes of The Quebecers, The Headshrinkers and Shawn Michaels & Diesel.

It took the dissolution of the latter pair in late-94 to free up a space for the Gunns to bang louder than their toy guns, but better things lay ahead for Billy once he shed the cowboy aesthetic.

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