Austin Gunn

Austin Gunn has grown into one of AEW’s loudest troublemakers, a second-generation wrestler who uses noise, sarcasm and showmanship as much as holds and strikes. As half of The Gunns tag team and a key part of The Bang Bang Gang, he has turned the Gunn family name into a modern act built on attitude, tag wrestling, and constant crowd interaction.

Austin Sopp was born in August 1994 in Orlando, Florida, and is the youngest son of Billy Gunn. Wrestling was always nearby through his father, but Austin first focused on regular sports.

At Lake Brantley High School, he played football and lacrosse, then attended Rollins College in central Florida from 2013 to 2017, where he played men’s lacrosse and earned a degree in elementary education. That background gave him structure and conditioning before he stepped fully into the ring.

While still in college he began training for wrestling. Billy Gunn was his main coach, teaching him TV timing and ring awareness, and he also learned from The Dudley Boyz at their school.

In March 2017 he debuted for Sunbelt Wrestling Entertainment (SWE), teaming with Billy in a handicap match for his first win, then spent 2017 and 2018 working independents like Big Time Wrestling (BTW), New York Wrestling Connection (NYWC) and MCW Pro Wrestling. Short looks in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and a Ring of Honor (ROH) battle royal showed that bigger groups were already watching him.

Ring of Honor (ROH) gave him his first national push in 2019. Entered into the Top Prospect Tournament, he beat Brian Johnson and Dante Caballero before losing the final to Dak Draper at Death Before Dishonor. That run showed he could handle longer matches and bigger crowds, and it helped set up his move to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

He signed with AEW in January 2020 and quickly debuted on AEW Dark alongside Billy as The Gunn Club, beating Peter Avalon and Shawn Spears. A knee injury in that match forced him out for months, but he returned later in 2020, and his brother Colten soon joined the act to form a full family trio. That November, he wrestled on Dynamite for the first time, teaming with Billy and Cody Rhodes against The Dark Order.

During AEW’s pandemic era, Austin became known as the noisiest person at ringside. With few fans in buildings, he shouted, clapped and reacted to every big move, even in matches he wasn’t booked in. Other wrestlers later called him an “unsung hero” of that time because his energy helped keep shows from feeling empty.

A joke in 2021 and 2022 helped fix his on-screen identity. Danhausen began calling him and his brother Colten the “Ass Boys,” a tease based on Billy’s “Mr. Ass” days, and crowds quickly turned it into a chant.

The brothers acted furious while Billy leaned into the gag, which gave Austin a sharper, more annoyed heel role as the son who could not escape his father’s past.

In 2022 The Gunn Club briefly teamed with The Acclaimed, then turned on them and later attacked Billy to join Stokely Hathaway’s group The Firm. That full villain turn led to their biggest success. On Dynamite in February 2023, Austin and Colten defeated The Acclaimed to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship. They kept the belts through a four-way defense at Revolution before losing them to FTR in a title versus career match that spring.

Soon after, the brothers joined Jay White and Juice Robinson as Bullet Club Gold, which later grew into the Bang Bang Gang stable. The stable’s biggest success came on January 17th, 2024 when the trio of Jay White and The Gunns defeated Mogul Embassy for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.

Days later, on an episode of Collision, The Gunns, White, The Acclaimed, and Billy formed the Bang Bang Scissor Gang, briefly reuniting Austin with his father on screen before The Bang Bang Gang betrayed The Acclaimed and Billy that March.

On April 21, 2024 at AEW Dynasty’s Zero Hour pre-show, Jay White and The Gunns faced The Acclaimed and Billy in a winner-take-all match that unified the AEW World Trios Championship with the ROH Six-Man belts into what AEW billed as the Unified World Trios Championship.

White and The Gunns won, giving Austin his first trios title in AEW and ROH at the same time. Later that summer, the group was controversially stripped of the unified belts after trying to invoke a Freebird-style rule to add Juice Robinson as a recognized champion. The Bang Bang Gang failed to regain the titles in subsequent matches, including a ladder match at All In 2024.

In the ring, Austin wrestles at a quick pace, leaning on rapid tags, running strikes, and sudden counters. He talks constantly, taunts opponents, and plays off chants between moves. His singles finisher is the Fame-Ass-er, a leg-drop bulldog that mirrors Billy’s famous move, and with Colten, he uses 3:10 to Yuma, where Colten sends an opponent forward, and Austin snaps them down with a neckbreaker.

As of late 2025, Austin Gunn is a core member of the Bang Bang Gang across AEW and ROH. With an AEW World Tag Team Championship and a Unified World Trios Championship behind him, he has moved from promising second-generation prospect to a loud, reliable presence in the company’s tag and trios scenes, still carrying the Gunn name while building a legacy of his own.