Billy Gunn: I Tell Austin And Colten That My Retirement Match Will Be Against Will Ospreay, Not Them

Billy Gunn has his retirement match in mind. 

Billy Gunn left his boots in the ring on the July 22 episode of AEW Collision after he and The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) lost to House of Black (Brody King, Malakai Black, & Buddy Matthews), indicating that he would be retiring. 

Gunn returned to the ring at AEW All In, teaming with The Acclaimed to win the AEW Trios Titles against House of Black. 

Speaking to A2TheK, Gunn commented on a potential retirement match. 

“Would I like to retire? Yes. Would I ever get away from wrestling? Not a chance. There is no way. I feel I still have too much to offer in a sense of helping, maybe not so much in the ring. That kind of got my head spinning a little bit when I get ran through (by House of Black), but I got to thinking, ‘I’m not letting people run through me like that. I have to come back. I’m not leaving on that note,’ even though I tried to. [Austin & Colten] weren’t having it. They weren’t having that retirement yet and that’s not how I’m going to retire. [Austin & Colten] say I have to wrestle them, that’s my retirement match. I tell them Will Ospreay is my retirement match. They get so mad about that. I love Will, there is something about him, and he does some really cool stuff that I’ve never done that I just want to take. That’s when I tell them all time, ‘I’m not wrestling you two for my retirement, I’m wrestling Will Ospreay,” he said. 

Ospreay is signed to AEW and will be starting full-time with the promotion after finishing his New Japan commitments in January. 

Elsewhere during the interview, Gunn commented on his current absence from television. You can find his full comments by clicking here. 

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