If there was an award for wrestling’s biggest physique, Billy Gunn is within the dialog for winner.
A long time on from his wrestling pomp as an Angle Period icon, he appears to be like nearly as good as he ever did.
In reality, on the age of 61, he is nonetheless blowing the minds of nostalgic wrestling followers and health nuts everywhere in the world because of common exercise movies which have proved successful throughout social media.
Gunn is a daily fixture on the YouTube channel of Mike O’Hearn – a former Mr Universe and a strongman, powerlifting, and combined martial arts specialist.
WWE icon Billy Gunn nonetheless in insane form at 61
He’s proved a standout throughout the health fanatic’s channels, too, because of some crushing shows within the health club which have left viewers applauding and wincing in equal measure.
But for Gunn, the trail to basically carving himself from granite wasn’t essentially clear-cut. Making his WWE debut in 1993, he was a stable athlete however with no feel and appear to set him aside.
He first discovered success as one half of The Smoking Gunns alongside on-screen brother Bart Gunn, successful the WWE Tag Staff Championships 3 times within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
A preferred pairing, the Gunns had been profitable in their very own proper however it wasn’t till later in his profession that Billy’s physique started to dominate the wrestling panorama.
After a short stint in different pairings, he broke out in 1997 as one half of the New Age Outlaws with Highway Dogg, combining brash mic-work with an more and more imposing physique.
By 1999, Gunn was topped King of the Ring, and was also known as among the best pure athletes in all of WWE.
His singles runs included spells as Intercontinental Champion and Hardcore Champion, whereas his tag work cemented him as a cornerstone of WWE’s booming tag division within the late ’90s and early 2000s.
Nonetheless performing and in scary form, Gunn has discovered a second dwelling within the gym-focused content material world, along with his collaborations on O’Hearn’s channel proving so standard that one was this week declared the channel’s high collab of the 12 months, serving to it previous a million subscribers.
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YouTube collab with Mike O’Hearn smashes data
The channel itself has amassed a staggering 534 million views in complete, O’Hearn reflecting on Gunn’s participation, saying: “No person must be shocked. The world is weighed in on the most important collaborations of the final 12 months’s and Billy Gunn wins all collaborations.”
For followers, the truth that Gunn nonetheless competes is unbelievable sufficient.
At 61, he’s wrestled as not too long ago as this month, and nonetheless seems on All Elite Wrestling TV. There, beneath his ‘Daddy A**’ persona, he’s a part of The Acclaimed, having beforehand helped the group to a document 238-day reign as AEW World Trios Champions.
What blows them away additional nonetheless is his feel and appear – one calling him an ‘age-defying beast’ on social media, one other calling him a ‘legend of the sport.’
One other added of Gunn: “He’s at all times had physique…. Man appears to be like 20 years youthful than what he’s.”
An additional fan applauded: “Unbelievable form, does not appear to be he is performed a online game or watched a film in his total life.”
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One other, replying to the O’Hearn content material, added: “That’s lots of beef there!!”, whereas an additional fan quipped the duo ought to group up as a WWE tag group ‘Billy and Mike’ as a play on the Billy and Chuck tag group the wrestler was as soon as part of.
The grappler’s in-ring days could also be easing down – he’s unsurprisingly wrestled simply 13 occasions within the final 12 months – however his health club grind is something however slowing.