TSC Evaluation #39: Billy Gunn

[mrken12]

In the last evaluation, Brian Pillman got a score of 7.84.

TSC Evaluation #38: Brian Pillman

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Major accomplishments

American Pro Wrestling Alliance
APWA American Championship (1x)

Bad Boys of Wrestling Federation
BBFW Aruba Championship (1x)

International Wrestling Federation
IWF Tag Team Championship (2x) – with Brett Colt

Freedom Pro Wrestling
FPW Tag Team Championship (1x) – with Road Dogg

Maryland Championship Wrestling
MCW Rage Television Championship (1x)
MCW Tag Team Championship (1x) – with B.G. James

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Tag Team of the Year (1998) with Road Dogg
Tag Team of the Year (2002) with Chuck
Ranked #39 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1999
Ranked #231 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
Ranked #43 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Road Dogg in 2003

SmashMouth Pro Wrestling
SPW World Heavyweight Championship (1x)

TWA Powerhouse
TWA Tag Team Championship (1x) – with B.G. James

World Pro Wrestling
WPW World Heavyweight Championship (1x)

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE
WWF Hardcore Championship (2x)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (1x)
WWE Tag Team Championship (1x) – with Road Dogg
WWF/E Tag Team Championship (10x) – with Bart Gunn (3), Road Dogg (5) and Chuck (2)
King of the Ring (1999)
Raw Bowl – with Bart Gunn


With a scale of 1-10 how would you rate Billy Gunn in these categories:

-Mic work/promos

-Personality/gimmicks

-Ring work (along with some of your favorite matches/feuds)

-Overall rating (which doesn't have to be an average of the above scores)

 

[Tommy Fits]

I give him a 6. He was an ok hand in the ring, had some charisma but wasn't a good talker. Was part of one of the most over tag team's of all time during wrestling biggest boom. That right there should boost him up to a 7 but he wasn't a 7 though. I really did like the early days of the NAO, it was a washed up Billy gunn and never was Jesse James and they got over organically. The NAO stuff should make Billy a 7 but I just can't do it. He was a solid hand but memorable moments a far and few between, he has pushing the dumpster off the raw stage and getting called Billy bytchcakes by the rock as memorable moments. If we had a decimal system I'd make Billy a 6.5 but we don't so I'll give him a 6

 

[The Rainmaker]

4. He is ass, man.

Spoiler

*bewp bewp*

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

7

every tag team he was apart of got over and over big. Smoking Guns, NAO, Billy n Chuck, The James Gang/VKM in TNA.

Always a solid in ring worker, nothing amazing. same with mic skills solid, nothing amazing.

 

[Silkk]

7

every tag team he was apart of got over and over big. Smoking Guns, NAO, Billy n Chuck, The James Gang/VKM in TNA.

Always a solid in ring worker, nothing amazing. same with mic skills solid, nothing amazing.

This about Billy Gunn on his own though, and he was solid on the mic? He was ok at best


I can't go higher than six, never been shyt without Road Dogg/DX

 

[TL15]

6... he was Ass

even the picture in OP he's like "I'm Intercontinental Champion....I guess ?"

 

[JuvenileHell]

He was probably a 6 before The Rock ethered him in their feud

 

[Cartier Murphy]

6

NAO were legendary in the early Attitude era, although they eventually got eclipsed by the TLC trio. His singles runs always bombed. Billy & Chuck didn't entertain me. Neither did much of anything in his TNA run. The NAO nostalgia run was cool but it ran its course fast. Want to rate him higher but even nostalgia can't really bump his rating up.

6

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Wanted to give him a 7, but I'll give him a high 6 instead. Made chicken salad out of quite a few dumpster gimmicks. He was a defining Attitude Era dude in a defining stable and tag team, and was in a bunch of various tag teams that seemed to work. Was very athletic, had an identifiable moveset, theme, had charisma, and was solid on the mic, especially if you compare him to dudes today than can't really talk . He probably has no classic matches, but played a big part in AE in general. The New Age Outlaws were basically thrown together, and became one of the most popular teams of that era, and the WWE has spent years trying to replicate randomly putting two dudes together, and haven't really come close at doing so. Roaddogg and Billy Gunn were both in dead in the water gimmicks, and Billy Gunn smashing that guitar over Honky Tonk Man's head to resounding cheers kicked off everything for him. The WWE's mistake with Billy Gunn was continuing to try to push him solo, knowing that he 100% shined as a tag partner. Rockabilly? A solo Mr. Ass ?? "The One" Billy Gunn that'll get him over. The Rock and Edge verbally dismantled him, and thankfully those were the last inklings of a solo career for him. Even his Billy & Chuck tag team was entertaining as fukk him and Palumbo were perfect together. Showing up in TNA rekindling his team with Roaddogg and becoming "Cute Kip" though . So he's overall a 6. I have fond memories of him in tag teams in Attitude and Ruthless Aggression (except Gunn-Show and Voodoo Kin Mafiain TNA) and memories of him solo.

 

[R=G]

This bum got a thread? 1 is his rating. This guy is a complete joke.

 

[Heelish]

Gunn-Show

 

[Playaz Eyez]

There was a couple segments where they were trying to come up with a name. Gunn-Show, Show-Gunns, and Big Gunns the WWE was in a weird period post WM-17 and pre-Invasion. Those 3 months were mostly ""

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Who suggested Billy Gunn?

I give him a 3 overall, and a career that's not worth my time of going into detail over.

 

[TransJenner]

One of my family members told me he gotta wrestling toy once and he said "he's name was Mr. Ass"

 

[DamienWayne]

6.5 underated as far as in ring talent , mic work was ok. good look and entertsining in most of his gimmicks. fameasser still one of my favorite finishers