A few weeks ago D-Generation X was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, and the fact that Billy Gunn now works for AEW was a hot topic leading up to the event.
During DX’s speech, Billy Gunn cracked a joke about how Vince McMahon can’t fire him, and Triple H responded by telling the former Intercontinental Champion that Vince will buy the “pissant company” he works for just so he can fire him.
Billy Gunn recently addressed Triple H’s comments on the 411 Wrestling Interviews podcast, and he said that he thought it was well done.
“Yeah, I mean, come on. It’s not a secret! We all know what’s going on, we all know what’s happening. It had nothing — yeah, it’s funny and everybody’s gonna react to it, and it’s not taboo. Because everyone’s talking [like] ‘Well, you work for AEW now. How can you be in the Hall of Fame.’ It’s not about working for WWE. It’s about being recognized as a part of wrestling, as being part of one of the greatest things that ever happened to wrestling. So yeah, it was funny, I thought it was hilarious, it was well-done. It wasn’t meant by no means to hurt either/or feelings. Either AEW’s feelings or WWE’s feelings. But you can’t walk around like it’s not something. Like, it’s not happening, right?”
Gunn was also asked if knew Triple H would be referencing AEW during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony and he went on to say that DX isn’t really the type of group that plans things in advance.
“We had some stuff we were gonna go to… we had a couple calls before the Hall of Fame just to kinda figure stuff out. But none of it came true. Because it doesn’t work like that for us. It never has worked like that for us. We’ve always just been, ‘Hey. You point us in the direction, we’re gonna go there. We have no idea what we’re gonna do.’ So when you start planning stuff out, it takes away from what we are. Because I feel like that’s what a lot of things are doing right now, you’re planning a bunch of stuff out. so when something organic happens you don’t react to it, because it’s not in the script. And we’ve never ever been ones to go by the script.”
