TSC Evaluation #39: Billy Gunn

[patscorpio]

Smoking Guns - Sunny was over

Billy & Chuck - Rico and the homo shyt was over.

NAO - Road Dogg's promos was over.

i liked the smoking gunns...as hokey as they were but they were entertaining in the ring

NAO - i mean this was a team that was never supposed to get over...i mean they were thrown together on some hollywood blondes shyt..going from rockabilly to bad ass billy gunn () saved his career big time..why go from such a tough ring name like bad ass billy gunn to mr. ass?!!

i pretty much tuned him out for good with the whole billy and chuck bullshyt

 

[patscorpio]

-Mic work/promos: 3
Billy Gunn's only remarkable promos were when he was on the receiving end of the 2 most well known roastings in the Attitude Era.

The Rock's promo


Edge's promo


He was a decent complement to Road Dogg but outside of the New Age Outlaws, his mic work is forgettable.



-Personality/gimmicks: 2
He somehow managed to have terrible gimmicks in 3 different eras of wrestling.


The Smoking Gunns during the mid 90s era of gimmicks (don't ask how)

The Mr. Ass gimmick in the Attitude Era and yes that shirt is real

His mid-life crisis The One gimmick. All he did was get a haircut and change his colors.

Billy and Chuck in the post-Attitude Era

And even in TNA he was known as Cute Kip and worked with the Beautiful People

If it weren't for the NAO, I would have given this fool a 0. So I guess you could say "I have 2 points for you"

I still don't even know what the Mr. Ass gimmick was about. Was it just that he liked asses? I mean it said so in the song. That's not much of a gimmick.



at "so many asses, so little time"

-Ring work (along with some of your favorite matches/feuds): 6

He was extremely athletic for someone who was 6'4" and 260. His moveset was pretty great too. Jackhammer, Fameasser, Military Press Slam, a pretty good dropkick, and other moves. I can't remember a notable singles match from him though.



-Overall rating (which doesn't have to be an average of the above scores): 4
A good tag team wrestler who had awful gimmicks and one of the biggest flops of a push that we've ever seen. He'll definitely make the HOF as a member of the NAO since they're an iconic team but as a singles wrestler he's not getting in there.

cosign this whole post..bart gunn > billy gunn

 

[CM_Burns]

Ring- 7. The guy was actually very athletic and a pretty good worker.

Charisma/star power- 5. He had a good look and stayed over. Definitely didn't have that top star quality and his mic skills sucked though.

Mic- 3. He was trash.

Overall-6. Dude was an OK enough talent, a decent midcarder. The NAO were over as fukk, he deserves some credit for that, his athleticism and ring skills. Those Rock and Edge promos were fake. Hes not trash because of them.

 

[CM_Burns]

I forgot about Billy and Chuck... that is more reason to prop him. They made that work, it got over. Not everyone could do that.

 

[Ribbs]

He overachieved something major. He should've always been a contender and never a champion outside of being in a tag team. He just had a great physique and charisma. The One, Badd Ass, Mr. Ass. He just wasn't good.

Dolph is a better Billy Gunn than Billy Gunn.

He's a 4.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

A low 4.

Honestly, there's nothing to say about Gunn except that he was apart of a lukewarm tag team (Smoking Gunns), the lowest denominator of NAO, and back to being the ASS of the WWE with a meh gimmick (Mr. Ass), along with one of the worst storylines/tag teams of all time (Billy and Chuck). Dude sort of redeemed himself when he went to Wrestle Kingdom though.

Overall, Billy Gunn is an example of a close to average wrestler with luck on his side.

 

[Starboy52]

Lowkey, X-Pac should've won that basura ass '99 KOTR.

But onto Billy, I gave him a 5 off of being in DX during the AE and for being surprisingly athletic despite being 6'4-6'5, 260 lbs.

That being said, stick X-Pac in billy's role in the NAO, and they're probably even more popular.

 

[reserved_one]

5. He actually wasn't a terrible wrestler, was a good athlete and had a nice moveset but he simply was missing the IT factor that could've propelled him to the upper echelon. He was mediocre on promos and couldn't talk ppl into the building. Road Dogg made the NAOs get over with his mic work which earned Billy cool points. He was the weakest link in DX, Mr Ass was a stupid gimmick looking back.

The One Billy Gunn sucked.
Billy and Chuck was cringeworthy

 

[Golayitdown]

He's a 5. At any and every point in his career, you can replace him with someone else and get the same or better results. He was never the sole reason he was over.

He's the wrestling equivalent of the extra tools you get with Ikea furniture. You may use them or you may not, but you're never going to remember them a week later when you're actually using that shytty bookshelf.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Don't know if im still disguised at that KOTR 99 or not, but with that wonderful thing called hindsight. If you have to have Billy Gunn win the tournament, then he should of faced current/former DX members all the way thru.

 

[R=G]

Ring- 7. The guy was actually very athletic and a pretty good worker.

Charisma/star power- 5. He had a good look and stayed over. Definitely didn't have that top star quality and his mic skills sucked though.

Mic- 3. He was trash.

Overall-6. Dude was an OK enough talent, a decent midcarder. The NAO were over as fukk, he deserves some credit for that, his athleticism and ring skills. Those Rock and Edge promos were fake. Hes not trash because of them.

No, no, no...good worker? When? Lol

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Billy Gunn is NOT worse than Tommy Dreamer

 

[CM_Burns]

No, no, no...good worker? When? Lol

03 maybe. He was athletic and competent at selling/timing, his offense looked good. His gimmick, or him probably being a goofy hick don't change that.

 

[Rosecrans]

2 points for being apart of NAO although Road Dogg is the reason they got over.

Everything else he did was shyt.

Gave em a 2

 

[R=G]

03 maybe. He was athletic and competent at selling/timing, his offense looked good. His gimmick, or him probably being a goofy hick don't change that.

He's not a 7 in the ring at all. There is no justification for it. He's a very bland guy who hit his hot tag spots. His finisher sucks too.