Austin & Colten Gunn dive into why they changed their team name.
Since The Gunn Brothers officially severed ties with their father Billy Gunn in August, the duo have moved on to do bigger and better things. Both Austin & Colten Gunn are now members of 'The Firm', a faction that also includes Stokely Hathaway, Ethan Page, Lee Moriarty, and W. Morrissey.
Another step that Austin & Colten have taken to further distance themselves from their dad is changing their team name. The trio, which is now only a tag team, was once known as 'The Gunn Club'. As of late, Austin & Colten Gunn have been going under their new duo name of 'The Gunns'.
In a new interview with the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Austin talked about the name change in length.
"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."
Colten went on to note that they are no longer a club due to their separation from their dad.
"Yeah and it’s not a club anymore. There’s only two of us, so.”
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. To learn the result of that match, view Fightful's full report of the show by clicking here.
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