Billy Gunn Reveals Former Tag Partner Turned Down Opportunities To Appear In AEW

Billy Gunn, a WWE tag team champion 11 times, is best known for his partnerships with Bart Gunn and Road Dogg. However, he also teamed with Chuck Palumbo, and one of his most memorable career moments was a segment on SmackDown where he and Palumbo teased getting married. And now in a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet , the current AEW talent revealed he unsuccessfully attempted to bring Palumbo in for cameo appearances in Tony Khan’s promotion, although Palumbo’s lack of desire and busy schedule has always prevented this.

“He just has no desire right now. He has all his other stuff going on. I’ve asked him to do a couple of things, but he just doesn’t. It’s not that he won’t do it for me; he just doesn’t feel like it’s him. The boys wanted him to come to my birthday celebration when we did the birthday thing. But I called and asked him, and he just, you know, he’s got so much other stuff going on.”

53-year-old Palumbo broke into the business in 1998 and joined WCW the following year. From there, he would win tag team gold with Shawn Stasiak and Sean O’Haire, going on to join WWE in 2001 as part of The Alliance angle after Vince McMahon had purchased WCW. And while his WWE career was unforgettable due to his partnership with Billy Gunn, he never moved above the mid-card and quality retired in 2012 after several years on the indies, having decided to focus on building custom motorcycles.