WWE Hall of Famer Billy Gunn recently spoke about one particular SmackDown Superstar who showed a bit of passion while training at the WWE Performance Center.
Speaking on the latest “Oh You Didn’t Know” podcast, Gunn revealed that Happy Corbin showed a genuine interest in professional wrestling after transitioning from football. He said,
“That was the one that sticks out,” Gunn said. “Everybody knows that I’m not a big NFL guy because they just come in entitled and they don’t want to learn, they don’t have a passion and, ‘I’m just getting paid money to do this, and okay, I don’t have to work.’ [Corbin] was a different animal. He wanted to learn this and he couldn’t get enough.
“Every time after class, he would come [to me and say], ‘Hey, can you stay? Would you just do this?’ I have no problem, I’ll stay as long as [possible], but it’s not a thing that you’re just going to come to me because that’s the thing that everybody wants to see you do. I feel, sometimes, that’s a thing.”
Gunn is now a coach for AEW while occasionally appearing on-screen as a wrestler. Gunn also spoke about the key difference between coaching in WWE and AEW.
“We have a bunch of coaches that are bar none, the best in the business,” Gunn said. “But nobody uses it. Me, Arn [Anderson], Dean [Malenko], B.J. [Whitmer], most of the guys like they’ve been there. So hey, how did we get there?”
Happy Corbin is set to face off against his former protégé Madcap Moss in a “Last Laugh” match tonight on SmackDown.
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