10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (June 1)

4. Billy Gunn's Friends Told Him They "Knew He Was Gay"

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WWE caught some serious flak from the gay community for pulling a swerve on the Billy and Chuck wedding angle in 2002. Aside from D-Generation X though, it was the most high-profile angle Billy Gunn had been involved in, and it tickled him that so many people bought into the gimmick outside the ring.

On occasion, Billy's real-life friends would tell him they "knew he was gay" all along.

During an interview with Chris Van Vliet for WSVN-TV, Gunn admitted that he couldn't believe people so close to him would think the storyline was real. It wasn't as if he was prancing around in a white bath robe and slapping another man's buttocks in his personal life, and that's hardly a prerequisite for being homosexual anyway.

The over-the-top characterisation of Billy and Chuck legit fooled people in Gunn's private life. Some of Billy's longtime co-workers in WWE also approached him to say they knew he'd been gay since the first time they met him.

Hilarious.

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