Titles Held: 1 Intercontinental Championship, 10 World Tag Team Championships, 1 WWE Tag Team Championship Total Title Days: 971 The Badd Ass. Mr. Ass. The One. Billy Gunn has almost had as many nicknames as championships in WWE. Although he was known mainly as a tag team wrestler, winning 11 titles with three partners, Gunn was targeted several times by WWF/E for a major singles push. It just never took hold. Gunn first achieved success as part of the Smokin Gunns with Bart Gunn, capturing three tag titles. He would then descend the ladder by being mentored by the Honky Tonk Man as Rockabilly Thankfully, that gimmick would be short-lived and Gunn would form the wildly popular tag team the New Age Outlaws with the Road Dogg. The duo would join D-Generation X, capture five tag titles and become a major focal point of the WWF during the Attitude Era. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU3l_0u42pE During this time, Gunn would branch out on his own, trying to win the Intercontinental Championship, feuding briefly with the Rock, and winning the 1999 King of the Ring tournament. Back then, winning the King of the Ring usually meant that WWF had big plans for a wrestler (Bret and Owen Hart, Steve Austin, Triple H and Ken Shamrock all had previously won, and Kurt Angle, Edge and Brock Lesnar would win after Gunn). But Gunn never was able to translate his tag team success to his singles career. He would win two more tag titles with Chuck Palumbo before leaving WWE in 2004. The Outlaws reunited in WWE and had a vanity run with the tag titles earlier this year, and Gunn is now a trainer for NXT. Perhaps hes teaching up-and-coming wrestlers how to yell, Suck it! Which of these 15 superstars have the best chance of coming off this list by winning a world championship? Sound off in the comments below.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
