Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Billy Gunn who is a former WWE Intercontinental Champion and a former 11 times WWE Tag Team Champion recently shared some advice for the younger talents in professional wrestling today.
Billy Gunn was one of the biggest names of WWE during their famous Attitude Era. He mostly became famous during the mentioned time period as a Tag Team wrestler along with Road Dogg. Together they were famously known as the New Age Outlaws. He won WWE Tag Team title along with Road Dogg for a total of six times.
Billy Gunn Gives Advice To Younger Talents
Gunn work in WWE for more than 11 years and in this long time period he became one of the most famous names of the promotion. He won a lot of titles in WWE during his time period including the Tag Team titles as mentioned, the Intercontinental title, the Hardcore Championship 2 times in total and he also won the WWE King of the Ring tournament in 1999.
In 2005 he joined TNA Wrestling and worked for 4 years in the promotion. He could not win any Championship in TNA but his time was quite important in the promotion. In 2009 he joined the independent circuit and worked for three years before joining WWE back in 2012 once again. Currently he is signed with AEW as a coach. In 2019 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the D Generation X.
Billy Gunn who is a former WWE Intercontinental Champion and a former 11 times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Busted Open Radio where he shared some advices for the younger talents in professional wrestling today. He said;
“Back down on half of the stuff that they do. That for me is the biggest thing. There’s a time and a place to crack out all your stuff, but I feel that they’re so young, and they don’t realize that their bodies are not going to be able to take this. It’s not that they’re not working hard. They feel like if they don’t get to do all their stuff, they’re not working hard, and that’s not the case.
“I’m not trying to diminish the YouTube show, but if I’m with an extra, and I have four minutes on our YouTube show, I don’t have to do a 450, a Spanish Fly, and everything in my arsenal every single time I’m out there. I feel they don’t know how to go, ‘Okay, I want to do this and this, so let me work around to get to this so I get the most out of that move. But it’s just move after move after move after flip after dive, and they don’t structure matches.
“Like that would be psychological structure stuff around hey, I want to do this one dive, but I’m going to do four dives before I get to that, but I want everybody to react to this one. Well, they’re not going to. They don’t realize when you come from inside the ring to outside the ring, that’s a dive.
“Whether you do a crappy dive, a jump dive, or just fly out, it doesn’t matter. You’re going from inside to outside. So I wouldn’t mind seeing them back down just a little bit. Then if you’re in a main event, or you have a big spot with a signed talent, then you can do just a little bit more, but they just do everything, and their bodies just are not going to hold up.”
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