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"Billy Gunn"

Has been pulled from the WWE roster and won't be appearing at house shows or Smackdown in the immediate future. WWE management has told Billy to 'get his stuff together' and then they will sit down ad hopefully resolve their issues with each other. Gunn has reportedly had a very bad attitude backstage since his return (PWInsider) and PWTorch has reported an incident involving Gunn missing a flight which WWE management considered 'the last straw'. Gunn has also been reported as talking to TNA officials on several ocassions.

My personal opinion? Expect a release soon...

thebestbit wrote:
> yeah hes been there for a while.

In rehab? Or passed out backstage?

To be honest if I was a Smackdown superstar and they found me passed out backstage, I'd just blame it on being subjected to 'Taker vs JBL AGAIN. Or a Heidennrich promo.

(_B-(I) wrote:
> I said...Billy Gunn has been sent to rehab to sort himself out after
> Road Agents found him passed out and stoned back-stage.

Yet another wrestler.. Giving in to the drugs. Ah well hes not talented. So no loss there!

yeah hes been there for a while.

GWX_GAMER wrote:
> What?...what?...what?....say what?

I said...Billy Gunn has been sent to rehab to sort himself out after Road Agents found him passed out and stoned back-stage.

What?...what?...what?....say what?

Ok, no release as yet, but Billy has apparently been sent to rehab!!!

Very_Metal wrote:
> People like Mick Foley have earned FAR
> more respect than holly and i don't know of any instance where he's
> deliberately hurt someone to prove a point.

Foley is the exception rather than the rule. He was a guy who was never accepted by the 'old school' anyway....

(_B-(I) wrote:
End result, the old stagers
> refusing to sell for or job to the youngsters because they haven't
> paid their dues.


They do that anyway, dues payed or not

sure, but paying dues as in "working tough dark matches and being on the road for a few years with no recognition and low pay" is one thing, and i'm in support of that, but getting whaled on by a more experienced guy just becasue he can is an outrage. if there was no referee and no crowd, it'd be common assault.
i understood Hollys "justification" of it, but i still don't think it was needed. People like Mick Foley have earned FAR more respect than holly and i don't know of any instance where he's deliberately hurt someone to prove a point.

Very_Metal wrote:
> maybe so, but i'm not sure if i like that mentality. just because
> things were brutal 20 years ago doesn't mean they still have to be.
> the business has changed, the focus has changed and if the actual
> trainers of Tough Enough don't see fit to pummel the students, i fail
> to see why anyone else should.
> if the students botch a move, Bill DeMott is right on them, yelling
> at them and locking them in a hold of some kind and this does the job
> just fine, there really was no need to go so far with it. As much as
> i understand and value the respect aspect of any locker room, Holly
> DID come off looking like a bit of a plank.
>
> the industry has moved on, attitudes need to catch up.

As long as there are guys, who these trainees will be working with, who have an 'old-school-attitude' competing in the ring, who beliebve that this is what training is all about, then guys who come up without, what they see as, paying their dues, then these 'new-school guys' won't be given any respect. End result, the old stagers refusing to sell for or job to the youngsters because they haven't paid their dues. I just personally think it's better for every young guy coming up to pay their dues now, rather than later, when it will only hurt them if their opponent doesn't respect them.