10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE No Way Out 2000

8. Billy Gunn Was Hurt Going In

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The popular narrative for years was that Bubba Ray Dudley injured Billy Gunn by smashing him with a lead pipe during their Tag-Team Title match. That isn't strictly true. According to Jim Ross on his 'Grilling JR' recap of the event, Gunn was already hurt before No Way Out 2000.

He'd already had some rotator cuff surgery before the show, and was scheduled to have some more afterwards. The injury was severe, and it's why the company kept his workload to a minimum on the pay-per-view; The New Age Outlaws vs. The Dudley Boyz went just over five minutes in length, and Road Dogg chopped most of the wood for his team.

Billy was in immense pain.

He wasn't the only one who worked through injuries that night. Kane had a problem with his leg that he had to deal with, and Eddie Guerrero patrolled ringside for The Radicalz despite suffering a nasty broken elbow injury on TV a few weeks earlier.

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