10 WWE Superstars Who Had Shockingly Long Tenures

'Bad Ass' Billy Gunn is best known as part of a successful tag team with the Road Dogg Jesse James, known as the 'New Age Outlaws'. However, that peak period really only accounts for three of the 11 years from Billy Gunn's initial WWE run.

Billy Gunn debuted in the WWE in 1993 with his kayfabe brother Bart as part of the Smoking Gunns. They took the struggling tag division by storm, winning the titles three times, but then faded quickly and they were languishing at the bottom of the card in 1996 when Billy and Bart decided to go their separate ways. Billy's next gimmick would die a brief but painful death, as Honky Tonk Man's protégé 'Rockabilly'. For the next few years he would tag with the Road Dogg on and off winning the tag titles five times and then transitioning to failed singles star after winning King of the Ring 1999.

Billy spent his remaining four years in the WWE, with varying degrees of success as 'The One' Billy Gunn, Mr. Ass, and Billy of the team 'Billy and Chuck', a tag team that was heel because of their homosexual tension (this was somehow not a Russo idea). Though this did result in two more tag title reigns his final years were not nearly as memorable as his peak run during the WWE's hottest period, the Attitude Era.

Billy stood the test of time in the WWE. At the time of his departure in 2004 he had the 3rd longest tenure of anyone in the WWE behind only The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. With 11 uninterrupted years in the WWE to go with his 11 tag team championships, Billy Gunn represented both quantity and occasionally quality in the WWE.