Billy Gunn Says He Doesn’t Want To Wrestle Into His 70s, Wants To Do It While He Still Can

WWE Hall of Famer Billy Gunn recently joined Insight with Chris Van Vliet to discuss his career, how much longer he sees himself wrestling, and more. The 62-year-old Gunn noted that he doesn’t want to wrestle into his 70s, but wants to do it now while he still can. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Billy Gunn on Whether He Wants To Wrestle Into His 70s

“I don’t. So I want to do it while I still can, and while I’m still having fun. I mean, you can ask my wife, she hates watching me, because I’m just such a goof. I’m such a goof because I just don’t have any stress anymore. There’s no stress for me to go out there and have everybody go, Oh, watch, it’s going to be an unbelievable wrestling match. They’re going to go, we’re about to have so much fun and be interactive in what we do, because that’s what he does, you know. So that’s what I’m doing. Do I want to? No, I don’t want to work until I’m 70. But is it possible? Sure, anything’s possible. But I’m getting to the point where I’m kind of slowing down a little. I think it’s because the gym is taking over my life.”

On What Training Looks Like for Him

“So my training now is I just stopped my six-day split. I went back to the five days so I could have two days off. About two weeks ago, I had to take a week off. But for me to take a week off, the gym has to happen here first, because I was playing catch-up with my body, I was really aching and I was hurting. But I said every morning I just go to the gym and it’ll go away. Sure, it goes away, but it comes right back, because I’m one. I’m not recovering as fast. So I have to put the brakes on that and realize, hey, I’m just spinning my wheels. I just need to take a week off. But that takes a couple of days of mental preparation, and my wife telling me, and then I’m going go to her and go, Hey, I’m going to take a week off.

On Not Wanting Another Singles Title

“No, I’m not a singles guy, I know that, and I’ve always known that. Plus, I really don’t have the air for that anymore, just being older and stuff. I guess it’s because I don’t really put an effort into that, because it’s not something I want to do. I feed better off of more chaos, and I can work better like that than I can working on my own. Can I direct a little better? Yeah, I can direct a little bit, but I can also direct in tags or trios or whatever that looks like as well. I’ve always been a tag guy, because I love the structure of how to get all these pieces together and put it together so it makes something good. Yeah, singles negative.”

Billy Gunn is still an active wrestler and signed to AEW and ROH, where he also works behind-the-scenes as a coach and a producer.