Billy Gunn Explains ‘Daddy Ass’ Nickname, Current Acclaimed Status

For quite a while, Billy Gunn and the Acclaimed were arguably the hottest thing in AEW. Who didn’t want a “Scissor Me, Daddy Ass” T-shirt? For a man in his sixties, it was an impressive run that included in-ring work. Now, however, he’s not coming to the ring with Anthony Bowens or Max Caster.

Speaking to Eric Novak of The ALL Real Wrestling Podcast, he explained why.

“I am not a part of the Acclaimed right now,” he clarified. “They are having their own little difficulties right now to try to figure out who’s, whatever, the best wrestler live and the the pride, and they’re trying to work out their conflict. Until they work out their conflict, they don’t get me. So, you know, I’ve tried to talk to them enough that…they’re not listening anymore. So, once they do that, I just go away. I’ll come back whenever I think I need to come back, you know, when they when the things kind of straighten out a little bit.”

Asked who gave him the nickname of Daddy Ass, he replied, “I think my kids and the Acclaimed. It’s a natural thing, right? Because in AEW, I’m everybody’s dad for some reason. You know, I’m the Acclaimed’s dad. I’m my own kids’ dad. I’m my students’. I’m like everybody’s. And then it just goes right hand-in-hand with the Mr. Ass; of course nobody wants to drop that. So so we we have to keep that into play. So it just you know, Daddy Ass was just a natural thing with The Acclaimed and what we were doing at the time.”

With the shape he’s in at 62, one has to wonder if Gunn might still be wrestling as “Grandpa Ass” someday.