Billy Gunn Planning WWE Return?

Mr. Ass was best known for his work in the Attitude Era, but Billy Gunn stayed surprisingly relevant when he returned to WWE and competed against the Shield at WrestleMania XXX.

Following his last WWE run, Gunn worked as a trainer in the Performance Center before being released for taking performance-enhancing drugs. He currently works in New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he’s part of a stable featuring fellow former WWE star Yoshi Tatsu.

In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Gunn discussed whether he’d consider a return to World Wrestling Entertainment.

Of course I would. I loved coaching. That is my thing – I love teaching people that want to learn this business. I would go back in a minute if asked. Coaching was such a different avenue for me, and I didn’t think that I had it in me. When Paul [Levesque] hired me, he goes, ‘You can’t be one the boys, and we’ve got to trial run to see if you’ll be a good coach. Just because you’re good in the ring doesn’t mean you’ll be a good coach.’ There are different personalities who you have to coach, and you’ve got to be able to adjust. For me, a big part of coaching is having a trust for the students that are in your class. If they trust you, and you don’t talk beneath them, you can create an even playing field. Yes, what I say goes, but there has to be an open discussion. As long as they trust me, then they’re going to listen to me and then they’ll learn. If they don’t trust me, then what I say goes on deaf ears and they go out there and do whatever. As a coach, I had to have a relationship with every one of my students. I would love to go back.

But what about an in-ring return? Gunn seems to think the New Age Outlaws did all they could with their last WWE run.

We kind of ran our course. People always want to see DX, but they don’t want to see us for very long. It’s a nostalgic kind of thing. People will say, ‘This is awesome,’ but if you see us for a long time, it gets stale in a way. We aren’t able to do the things the real DX, back in the ‘Attitude Era,’ could do. People were used to seeing DX do some of the most off-the-wall, craziest stuff they’d ever seen in their life. So when you come back to the PG era, when you can’t do too much of that stuff, people go, ‘Well, you’re really not DX anymore because you’re not doing anything crazy.’ We are still DX, but we have to put the brakes on what we do.

Gunn isn’t the only one people want to make a WWE return, with Steve Austin directly shooting down some rumors of his own recently.  One big, possible return in the new year? None other than Kurt Angle.

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