Well. if you had read what I wrote in that thread, you would know that I defended him as a tag team wrestler. There's no doubt that he's had a lot of success. But he's just boring as a singles wrestler, and he's been awful since he's joined TNA. I know, he's getting older, but then maybe he should just retire. I just can't see anything that Billy Gunn did after DX worthy of acheiving a fanbase. Although, his short-lived team with Hardcore Holly was kind of entertaining.
Ok for a start, this is my thread, not a 'Billy Gunn' thread, and seeing as you started this, here I go.
How anyone can criticise Billy Gunn, Kip James or anything you want to call him is beyond me.
He had a nine year career with the WWE, holding the tag team belts 10 times, 3 with the Smoking Gunn's (which would have been more if it was not for his neck surgery) 5 times with the New Age Outlaws (and if anyone has ever watched anything with them, they know he carried that tag team single handedly in the ring, even 'Road Dogg' has said that) and 2 more times with Billy And Chuck, not to mention holding the Intercontinental championship, Hardcore championship and the King of the Ring in 1999. Many people believe he held the tag team titles at the WWE 11 times, but it wasn't recorded, even though he clearly held half of the tag team titles. He has also had the IWF tag belts twice, the MCW tag team belts, and the WPW championship belt.
New Age Outlaws where one of the most entertaining tag teams, they worked well together, having a member very good vocally, and the other being a good worker in the ring, they where a major part of the tag team divisions movement into the attitude era, and then became part of what can be possibly described as one of the most popular WWE factions ever, DX.
After his rotator cuff injury he returned to a completely different company, and even working well in singles competition, and again in a tag team, at this time he was one of the most tenured wrestlers with the company, behind only The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels, but due to problems with Triple H, he was realised in 2004.
At TNA currently, he is about to be used more, which is a good thing for him, and even at 44, 45 this year, he is still in incredible athletic shape for his age, and no longer using steroids.
Sadly most people don't see his good points, like his pure wrestling ability, and want to remember things like his less than average mic skills, and his 'homosexual' storyline which was used to put his great tag team career down, and humiliate him.
Now if anyone wants to challenge me on that, I'll pull a Sly and refuse to see his faults.