The Smoking Gunns The Smokin ' Gunns was a professional wrestling tag team of kayfabe brothers Billy Gunn ( Monty Sopp ) and Bart Gunn ( Mike Polchlopek ) . They portrayed cowboys in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) from 1993 to 1996 . As a team , the Smoking Gunns won the WWF Tag Team Championship three times . History . Polchlopek and Sopp began teaming as the " Long Riders " in the International Wrestling Federation . Polchlopek wrestled as Brett Colt , while Sopp was known as Kip Winchester . They won the IWF World Tag Team Championship together twice before signing with the World Wrestling Federation . The Smokin ' Gunns made their WWF debut in April 1993 . Their first pay - per - view appearance was at the King of the Ring 1993 in an eight - man tag team match . The Gunns and the Steiner Brothers scored the win over The Headshrinkers and Money Incorporated when Billy pinned Ted DiBiase . From their debut until January 1994 , They would fire blanks in the arena with real guns , but then they received complaints from families that they were scaring children which caused them to stop firing guns in the arenas . Although they continued to wrestle as a team , they did not appear together again on a WWF pay - per - view for over a year . In the fall of 1994 , the Gunns began a feud with the Heavenly Bodies ( Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray ) . The Bodies attacked the Smoking Gunns and destroyed their cowboy hats . In return , the Gunns grabbed the Bodies ' robes and tore off the wings . The teams had a series of matches at house show s , but the feud did not end with a blow off match . Instead , the teams faced off as part of a 5 - on - 5 elimination match at Survivor Series 1994 . Billy and Bart joined forces with Lex Luger , Mabel and Adam Bomb in a loss to Ted DiBiase ' s team of King Kong Bundy , Tatanka , Bam Bam Bigelow and The Heavenly Bodies . The Gunns were scheduled to compete in a tournament for the vacant tag - team title after Shawn Michaels and Diesel , the champions , began feuding . Injuries prevented the Gunns from entering , however . One day after their replacements , Bob " Spark Plug " Holly and the 1 - 2 - 3 Kid , won the belts , the Gunns returned to win the title on January 23 , 1995 . At WrestleMania XI , the Gunns faced Owen Hart and a mystery partner , who was revealed to be Yokozuna . They regained the title from Hart and Yokozuna on September 25 of that year . The Gunns held the title until February 15 , 1996 , when Billy was forced to undergo neck surgery , and The Smokin ' Gunns had to forfeit their title . Billy recovered quickly , and the Gunns won their final championship three months later by defeating The Godwinns at . Following this victory , Sunny left the Godwinns to manage the Gunns . Sunny was a heel manager and manipulated the Gunns , causing the brothers to argue . Sunny and Billy had an onscreen relationship , which bothered Bart . Split . Sunny eventually caused the team ' s downfall , as she became the source of infighting between the two . When the Smokin ' Gunns lost their tag team title to Owen Hart and the British Bulldog in September 1996 at , Sunny left the team because she only wanted to be a manager for title holders ( although she did not become Hart and Bulldog ' s manager ) . Billy , frustrated with losing both the title and Sunny , turned against Bart . Now officially a heel , he briefly feuded with his brother . After facing each other in tag team matches , the feud culminated in a one - on - one battle . During the match , Bart accidentally injured Billy ' s neck , forcing Billy to take some time off and drawing their feud to an abrupt halt . Soon after , Bart went to wrestle for the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) , and when he returned to WWF in 1998 , he was mainly involved in storylines with other NWA talent , and his opponents in the " Brawl for All " tournament , which he won . He was released , however , before he could have another angle with Billy . They did , however , face each other in tag team , in a match between the New Midnight Express and the New Age Outlaws at the 1998 King of The Ring . After the breakup , Billy was given the new gimmick of Rockabilly . It failed to catch on , however , and he became " Badd Ass " Billy Gunn and later won the Intercontinental championship , two Hardcore titles and the 1999 King of the Ring tournament , in addition to seven more tag team titles .