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Old 08-05-2004, 06:31 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Funky Fly
They missed the boat on Gunn as a champ. They should have pushed him after his KOTR win.
Let me just jump right in here before sopme ney-sayer claims he dropped the ball...blah blah blah. Billy was mega over at the time (and to be honest it STILL over today despite terrible bookings for 2 years). He was going strong and then...DX reformed. Well great let's take this guy, who was a credible threat to The Rock, and even challenged Triple H for the World Title weeks earlier, and throw him and the rest of DX back together...wouldn't be so bad if the new DX wasn't so watered down and basically there to play Triple H's bitches. Billy didn't drop the ball, the WWF did. Then of course his injury took him out for 9 months. He comes back to a HUGE ovation, so they let him and Guerrero fued over the IC Title...good. Billy won the title and the crowd was really into it...and then they had him drop the title 2 weeks later. Does he fallow up with his fued with either Guerrero or Benoit? No. They just kind of forget about him until the Royal Rumble. Yea! Billy is in the final four...typically a place reserved for 4 guys who are about to get some good air time in the near future...ergh! Billy is out, makes a few random jobs on SmackDown until no Way Out, wins the Hardcore Title for 18 seconds...dosn't make a WrestleMania appearance...and isn't really seen again until he a Chuck show up. Suddenly Billy and Chuck are MEGA over (suprising? No. The gimmick worked and if you look at Billy's track record he tends to get over doing anything) they become only the 5th wrestler to ever appear on the Today Show, then WWE screws everything up AGAIN...do they play out some more Abigious angles? No, we're WWE and we like to take thre implied and ruin it by just flat out saying it...and then backing down. What happens? Chuck goes to FBI and Billy AGAIN is dropped. If you look at the past few years, predominatly, it isn't Billy's fault he isn't huge right now. He is charismatic to boot. Listen, be it on Velocity, SmackDown, or House Shows, he is 9:10 for being one of the top cheered guys. People love him and why WWE dosn't capitolize on this is beyond me...VINCE! HE IS 6'5"...THAT'S BIG ENOUGH! GIVE HIM A PUSH!
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