Who is Billy Gunn? How much is Billy Gunn’s net worth?
Billy Gunn is an American professional wrestler and a professional bull rider who has coached for WWE’s Tough Enough and NXT trainer who is currently working for the All Elite Wrestling as a producer. His net worth has been estimated to be around $3 million with his wrestling career being his primary income. He has also made appearance in two movies and a television series, but he is known best for his active years in WWF which spanned from 1993 to 2004 and then 2012 to 2015 mostly in tag team fights.
This article gives a run through of Billy Gunn and all that there is to know about him.
What you’ll find in this article:
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Net worth
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Early life
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Biography
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Career
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Personal life
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Wealth dependency
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Controversy
- Billy Gunn Wrestler’s Latest news
- Summary
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Billy Gunn’s Net worth
Billy Gunn’s net worth in 2022 has been estimated to be roughly $3 million putting together his assets and income which comes primarily from his career as a wrestler then from it sources like being a trainer, his early career which is bull rider, and presently an AEW producer.
Early life of Billy Gunn
Born Monty Kip Sopp on the 11th of November, 1963 in Orlando, Florida; he attended Sam Houston state university in completion of his higher studies.
Biography of Billy Gunn
Monty Kip Sopp known famously in the WWF as Billy Gunn. Born on the 11th of November, 1963 in Orlando, Florida. His birth sign is Scorpio and has a height of about 6ft 3inc (1.93m). He is a professional wrestler by profession.
Career
After working as a professional bull rider in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, he dropped the profession and decided to chase a career as a professional wrestler. He was trained by Jerry Grey and wrestled on the independent circuit for a period of 8 good years before finally signing a contract with the WWF in the year 1993.
He made his WWE debut on the 17th of May 1993 episode of raw in a tag team match alongside Bart Gunn to defeat Glenn Ruth and Tony Vadja making him and Bart now known as the Smoking Gunns. They made a pay-per-view debut at the King Of The Ring contest in an eight-man tag team match as they teamed up with The Steiner Brothers to defeat The Head shrinkers and Money Inc.
The Smoking Gunns teamed up with Tatanka to defeat The Head shrinkers and Bam Bam Bigdon at summer slam and Gunn was eliminated by Diesel when he entered his first royal rumble match on the 22nd of January, 1994. Finally in early 1995, the Smoking Gunns got their first tag team championship putting down the makeshift team of 1-2-3 kid and Bob Holly and holding the championship title till WrestleMania IX where it was collected from them by a team consisting of Yokozuna and Owen Hart but collected back the title in September, 1995.
On the 15th of February in the year 1996, Billy needed a neck injury and do the title was vacated and after he returned from his surgery, the Smoking Gunns won for the third time in his career the tag team championship but lost it again on the 22nd of September at the ‘In Your House: Mind Games’ to the British Bulldog and Owen Hart and while being frustrated due to the loss, Billy walked out on Bart and thereby breaking up the Smoking Gunns.
He later on teamed up with Road Dogg as the New Age Outlaws winning 6 tag team championship and later also teamed up with Chuck as Billy and Chuck winning two championships making it a total of 11 tag team championships with three different partners.
Billy Gunn was the King Of The Ring tournament winner in the year 1999, the WWE Hardcore championship twice and held the intercontinental championship. He also competed in TNA wrestling from the year 2005 to 2009, on independent circuit and started competing in 2016 for New Japan Pro wrestling and was finally inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2019 as a member of D-Generation X.
Billy Gunn’s Personal life
Billy was married to Tinnel Tina from the 3rd of March in the year 1990 to January, 2000, finalizing the divorce on the 11th of December in the year 2002. They have 2 children from the marriage; Colten Gunn who was born on the 8th of May, 1991 and Austin Gunn who was born on the 26th of August, 1994 with both of them following in their father’s footstep in being professional wrestlers in the AEW where their father works presently as a producer.
Later on, on the 24th of January 2008, he got married to his long time girlfriend Paula.
Wealth dependency: Billy Gunn’s source of wealth
His wealth comes mostly from his career as a professional wrestler and then other sources like being a former bull rider, a trainer for NXT and working currently as a producer for the AEW with all these and more like appearing in films like ‘Other Guys’ and ‘Double’ and also in series like ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch’ though just an episode.
Controversy
Billy Gunn was arrested once in Florida around November of 1990 on the charges of disorderly conduct.
Latest news
Both his children are currently professional wrestlers fighting in the All Elite Wrestling as Colten Gunn and Austin Gunn.
Billy in 1999 was ranked at 39 out of the top 500 single wrestlers in the PWI 500 and later in 2003, ranking 231 at the top 500 single wrestlers of the PWI years. Later that same year in 2003, he ranked up to 43 of the top 100 tag teams of the PWI years along with Road Dogg.
Summary: Billy Gunn’s net worth
Monty Kip Sopp who is popularly know in his field as Billy Gunn was born in Orlando, Florida on the 11th of November, 1963 and over the years happens to be a professional wrestler. His wrestling career started in 1993 as he was a member of the Smoking Gunns alongside Bart Gunn winning 3 championship titles,6 championship titles teaming up with Road Dogg and 2 championship with Chuck making it a sum total of 11 championships titles. He was also the King of the Ring in 1999 and was also famous for appearing on TNA from 2005 all through to 2009. Billy was also an intercontinental champion once and WWF hardcore champion twice making his wins a total of 14 championship titles in WWE. He was inducted into the 2019 class of WWE Hall of Fame as a member of D-Generation X.
He appeared in films like ‘Other Guys’ and ‘Double Fury’ and ‘Sabrina The Teenage Witch ‘ and currently has a net worth of approximately $3 million due to his wrestling career.