Colten Gunn

Colten Gunn has quickly become the colder, more straight-faced half of The Gunns, a second-generation wrestler who backs up his attitude with sharp timing and strong tag work.

As part of AEW’s Bang Bang Gang, he has turned from a little-known rookie into an AEW World Tag Team Champion and the ROH/AEW unified trios champion alongside his brother Austin.

He was born Colten Sopp on May 18th, 1991 in Orlando, Florida, and is the older son of longtime star Billy Gunn. Unlike his brother Austin, Colten stayed away from wrestling for most of his twenties.

He attended Florida State University, graduating in 2013, then worked in the construction industry in Southern California, living a regular life while his father kept wrestling on television. Only later did he decide to follow the family path. When he chose wrestling, he went straight to the source.

Colten trained under his father, Billy Gunn, learning TV-style wrestling from someone who had done it for decades. His first appearances for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) came in mid-2020, when he accompanied Billy to the ring on Dynamite and began getting used to cameras and live crowds. By that September, he was regularly seen ringside on AEW Dark, standing in The Gunn Club’s corner before he ever took a bump on TV.

Colten’s in-ring debut arrived on the November 11th 2020 Dynamite. Wrestling as Colten Gunn, he teamed with Billy and his brother Austin as The Gunn Club and beat BSHP King, Joey O’Riley, and Sean Maluta in a six-man tag team match.

Through 2021, he grew into a regular part of the act, usually working alongside his family on Dark and then on Dynamite as cheerful midcard babyfaces, often allied with Cody Rhodes’ Nightmare Family.

He also dipped a toe into the independent circuit. In September 2021, he debuted for Battleground Championship Wrestling (BCW) in Philadelphia, then in early 2022, he and Austin captured the New South Wrestling (NSW) Tag Team Championship at the “Resurrection” event before dropping the belts later that month. These dates gave him experience outside the AEW system while still keeping his main focus on national TV.

A running gag reshaped his image in 2021 and 2022 when Danhausen began calling the brothers the “Ass Boys,” riffing on Billy’s “Mr. Ass” persona, and crowds quickly picked up the chant.

Colten leaned into the irritation, playing the straight man to Austin’s louder reactions while their father wore joke shirts and teased the nickname. The bit helped turn them into natural heels, annoyed at the fans and embarrassed by their own legacy.

In May 2022, The Gunn Club briefly joined forces with The Acclaimed on AEW television, then turned on them that summer and, in August, attacked Billy as well, fully breaking from their father and joining Stokely Hathaway.

That angle led to the formation of The Firm in September, with Colten and Austin standing alongside MJF, Ethan Page, Lee Moriarty, and W. Morrissey as hired guns and tag specialists.

However, their biggest success came in early 2023. On February 8th, 2023, The Gunns defeated The Acclaimed to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship, establishing Colten as a top-level tag wrestler much earlier in his in-ring career than most.

They kept the belts in a four-way defense at Revolution 2023, then lost them to FTR on April 5th in a title versus career match, a result that ended their reign and effectively closed the book on The Firm as a group.

Soon after, Colten and Austin aligned with Jay White and Juice Robinson to form Bullet Club Gold, later known as The Bang Bang Gang. The new stable raised Colten’s profile, putting him in featured multi-man matches and giving him the swaggering, gun-finger entrance and “Gunns up” taunt that became part of his presentation.

On January 17th, 2024, White and The Gunns defeated Mogul Embassy for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship, and on April 21st at AEW Dynasty’s Zero Hour, they won a winner-take-all match to unify those belts with the AEW World Trios Championship, making Colten a Unified World Trios Champion.

In the ring, Colten wrestles with a steady, athletic style that often contrasts with Austin’s wild energy. He uses crisp dropkicks, well-timed clotheslines and corner lariats, and he usually handles the “control” portions of a tag match, cutting the ring in half and grinding opponents down before tagging out.

His singles finisher is the Colt 45, a butterfly neckbreaker, and with his brother Austin, he uses 3:10 to Yuma, where he launches an opponent with a back body lift into Austin’s neckbreaker.

Today, Colten Gunn remains signed to AEW and ROH as a member of the Bang Bang Gang, though he has spent time on the shelf with injury while the group adds new members.

With an AEW World Tag Team Championship and a Unified World Trios run already behind him, he stands as a late-blooming but firmly established part of the Gunn family legacy, known for his sharp timing, cool demeanor, and role as the grounded half of The Gunns.