During the recent installment of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed the upcoming RAW 25th Anniversary show that takes place on January 22nd and indicated that we will probably see a “DX” reunion angle on show.

Meltzer explained that WWE is advertising “DX” Shawn Michaels and not Shawn Michaels for the event. X-Pac and The New Age Outlaws are also being brought in for the show, so it’s possible they do a full DX reunion with all the members of the group instead of just Shawn and Triple H.

This will be Billy Gunn’s first appearance for the company since they fired him back in November of 2015 after he tested positive for elevated levels of testosteroneat a powerlifting event.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

Russo says he usually gives WrestleZone and WrestlingInc. a pass when he rips apart dirt sheet opinions, but this past week both of these sites published stories that they simply shouldn’t have. Nearly a decade ago Kurt Angle was involved in a very troublesome relationship, and he has spent the years since getting over that time in his life.

This past week Angle’s ex went on a Twitter rampage, bringing up things that have been buried for years, and for some reason these wrestling sites thought it was a good idea to publish stories on this. Russo thinks this was an embarrassing thing to do, and he’d love to get an explanation as to why either of these sites chose to publish those stories. By publishing these stories they’ve given this women attention, and have jeopardized Angle’s position in WWE.

Lane plays a clip of Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez from this past week, when they were discussing who Alvarez would be able to have a good match with in NJPW. Meltzer says that Tanahashi would be a good choice because he can have a good match with anyone, except for Billy Gunn evidently.

Russo says that Billy Gunn is a legend in this business, and at 53 years of age he looks better than ever. Russo says he’d love for Meltzer to run into Gunn in the street someday, because he’d run away like a scared little girl. Russo adds that Alvarez is an independent wrestler because he’s not good enough to have great matches with anybody.

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Russo opens today’s show by commentating on the recent drama in the relationship between Paige and Alberto Del Rio. He says that he met Paige and her family before, and they’re all very nice people. He has also met Del Rio in the past and he was very nice as well. In other words, he likes both of these individuals and he really just wants both of them to be okay.

He says that he doesn’t put any weight into the headlines written by wrestling ‘journalists’, but the tweets that were sent out by Paige’s brother really caught his attention. Some people forget that Paige is still just a kid, and her family are obviously very concerned about her. He believes that there is love in that relationship and he thinks they’re both good people, so he hopes they can figure this out.

Lane mentions that there has been some criticism from dirt sheet writers, Bryan Alvarez in particular, over the fact that Billy Gunn worked the recent NJPW show from the United States. Russo says he’s glad that Gunn wrestled on that show, and he’s glad that he’ll continue to wrestle for the foreseeable future because he’s able to make money doing that. This is a business, and each time Gunn wrestles he gets paid, so what’s the problem here?

Russo says that Gunn is still a machine at his age. He adds that in a shoot fight, Gunn would give Brock Lesnar a tougher bout than Samoa Joe or most other performers on WWE’s roster.

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Many of you have noticed that Billy Gunn has been using his WWE name outside of the company and are wondering how he’s getting away with that.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that he is now allowed to use the name “Billy Gunn” because WWE did not continue the trademark. When they let it go, he trademarked it himself and he now owns the rights to the name worldwide.

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According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter WWE were not even aware of his involvement in power-lifting competitions until just a few weeks ago. Also, his drug test came up with a testosterone to epitestosterone ratio of 37-1 which is well over the 4-1 limit.

Billy Gunn was one of the three coaches on this year’s WWE Tough Enough along with Booker T and Lita. In addition to being a trainer at Performance Center and being involved in Tough Enough, Gunn was also an agent and helped produce segments and matches for RAW.

“The whole problem with this process is getting cleared by the doctors. I’ve been cleared by one doctor in Phoenix, but the WWE doctor is hesitant to clear me. It’s a very complicated situation, that I guess they don’t really want me talking about.”

Daniel Bryan will be back at Summerslam??