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The Smoking Gunns were 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Wrestling Information Archive )〕 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 Smoking 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Wrestling Information Archive )〕 Their next big match came at SummerSlam 1993, when they teamed up with Tatanka to defeat Bam Bam Bigelow and The Headshrinkers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Wrestling Information Archive )〕 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 shows,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Wrestling Information Archive )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Smokin' Gunns' first reign )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Wrestling Information Archive )〕 At WrestleMania XI, the Gunns faced Owen Hart and a mystery partner, who was revealed to be Yokozuna and lost the belts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Owen Hart and Yokzuna's reign )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Online World of Wrestling )〕 They regained the title from Hart and Yokozuna on September 25 of that year.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Smokin' Gunns' second reign )〕 The Gunns held the title until February 15, 1996, when Billy was forced to undergo neck surgery, and The Smoking Gunns had to forfeit their title.〔〔 Billy recovered quickly, and the Gunns won their final championship three months later by defeating The Godwinns at In Your House 8: Beware of Dog.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Smokin' Gunns' third reign )〕 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. In addition to Sunny the team began to act more like heels, wrestling more aggressively, acting more arrogantly and teaming with other heels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Smoking Gunns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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