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“It Was So Uncomfortable” – Billy Gunn Discusses Billy & Chuck Segment
In the midst of one of the most controversial angles that WWE ever produced, Billy Gunn has revealed that there was one particular segment that made him uncomfortable.
Towards the end of 2001 Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo began teaming together on WWE television. With the invasion angle now a thing of the past, the brand-new team appeared to represent a modern start for both men.
As the weeks passed the team began to get increasingly affectionate towards each other, and were given a “personal stylist” in the shape of the flamboyant Rico.
The subtle hints that Billy and Chuck were a same-sex attracted couple quickly became less and subtle and a “commitment ceremony” between the two was position for September 2002. However, on SmackDown it was revealed that the whole thing had been a publicity stunt that got out of hand, and both men were straight.
The angle received significant media coverage at the age and was heavily criticised by many in the LBGTQ community upon it’s conclusion.
Speaking on a recent episode of The Sessions with Renee Paquette, Billy Gunn discussed the ori
Billy Gunn Shares His Feelings On Billy & Chuck Tag Team
WWE Hall Of Famer Billy Gunn has opened up on his time as part of a controversial tag team with Chuck Palumbo.
Gunn had already enjoyed a number of successful years in WWE by the time the pair came together having won tag team gold as part of The Smoking Gunns and the New Age Outlaws.
The Orlando-born Superstar would go on to be crowned the 1999 WWE King Of The Ring as well as lifting both the Intercontinental and Hardcore Championship as a singles competitor but Vince McMahon decided to pair him with former WCW Tag Team Champion after the ill-fated Invasion angle came to an abrupt halt in late 2001.
Gunn and Palumbo, who won the WWE Tag Team Championship on two occasions, were depicted on screen as a same sex couple, even enlisting the services of flamboyant stylist Rico before Chuck proposed to Billy on the 5th September 2002 edition of SmackDown.
The pair were set to tie the knot a week later but stopped proceedings during the ceremony to deny they were lovers, claiming the whole plans had been for publicity only. The angle received significant media coverage at the day and was heavily criticised by many in
Billy & Chuck’s Wedding
Have you heard of the Be A Star campaign? If so, you already know that WWE and the Same-sex attracted and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) have been teaming up for a few years now to combat bullying. (If you haven’t heard of Be A Star, I can only suppose that you’ve never watched WWE. Perhaps you are a fan of the obscure aquatic sport of carp-wrestling and simply typed the wrong URL into your browser. This is Wrestlecrap.com)
This campaign might seem hypocritical for WWE, given that it consistently presents bullying going unpunished week after week by Ryback and even Be A Star representative Stephanie McMahon. However, baffling and insincere cooperation between WWE and GLAAD is nothing new, having started with an ill-fated relationship in 2002.
That was the year that WWE’s own Billy & Chuck, an ambiguously gay tag team in the vein of Too Much and The West Hollywood Blondes, ditched the “ambiguously” part, with Chuck dropping down to one knee and proposing to Billy. This, of course, forever destroyed the appeal of the “Are they or aren’t they?” gimmick, since once someone officially comes out of
Anthony Bowens (@bowens_official) is a professional wrestler with All Elite Wrestling and is part of the tag team “The Acclaimed” with Max Castor. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about signing with AEW, how Tony Khan paired him with Max Caster and created The Acclaimed, what he has learned from operational with Billy Gunn, his plan to reunite Billy and Chuck, how he came out as queer to his family and friends, being an LGBTQ role model, what winning the AEW Tag Team Championships meant to him, why he decided to move to Los Angeles, his YouTube channel with his boyfriend called “Michael & Anthony” and much more!
On what being a champion in AEW means to Anthony Bowens:
“It means a lot. It means a whole lot. I mean, Max and I came into the business in October of 2020. And less than two years later, we are at the top of the tag division, we’re at the top of the world. It’s a moment that I had been working for. Obviously, I didn’t know I was going to achieve the Tag Team titles but winning a championship and a major corporation with all the tough work and all the sacrifices that went into, you know, becoming a profess