The tag team coming out of Stokely Hathaway’s The Firm are looking to make their own mark on the sport.
In a new interview with the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Austin talked about the name change in length. The pair were previously named The Gunn Club along with their father Billy Gunn, but now wrestle under the tag team name, The Gunns.
“Yeah, it was a name that me and my dad started together as a tag team. We’re about to go do my first match and we don’t have a name and he goes ‘What about the Gunn Club?’. I was like ‘Alright, cool’ and we just did that for the first match and it literally stuck with us for three years. The entire time, to me I was like this is goofy, I don’t wanna represent anything else like New Japan esque. You have Bullet Club and you have all of these clubs and I was like ‘Nah, this is not it’. For three years, we had to stick with that but when me and Colten turned on [Billy Gunn]… I realized it was time for me and Colten to kinda take charge of not only our characters but our career as well. We no longer live under the shadow of my dad so I was like let’s just go with The Gunns. Its cleaner, it’s more precise and it’s more serious.”
Austin Gunn to AEW Unrestricted
Colten would also comment, noting they are no longer a club as their father has been kicked out of the group.
“Yeah and it’s not a club anymore. There’s only two of us, so.”
Colten Gunn on AEW Unrestricted
Austin and Colten’s father Billy Gunn was recently in action, as he competed on the October 12 edition of AEW Dynamite in a match against Swerve Strickland.
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