WWE fires Billy Gunn after testing positive for PEDs

[pwaldo]

Credit: Wrestling Observer

Monty "Kip" Sopp, better known as Billy Gunn, was fired today as a trainer by World Wrestling Entertainment.

Sopp was fired due to testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone in a powerlifting meet on July 25.

Sopp's drug test at the meet came up with a 37-1 testosterone/epitestosterone ratio, well over the 4-1 limit, and he was suspended from powerlifting for four years.

Sopp, 52, had returned to WWE as a trainer in 2012 after several years away from the organization. He worked as an agent and a trainer, as well as had a New Age Outlaws nostalgia run as a tag team, winning the tag team titles in early 2013.

He had done occasional run-ins at the end of some NXT shows with he and the babyfaces wrestlers ending shows doing DX crotch chops.

Most recently, he had appeared on television as one of the trainers on Tough Enough and Breaking Ground.

[Zeppelin1985]

Why, Rock-a-billy, why?!? I hope this doesn't become a downward spiral for him. Ugh, what truly rotten news...

[Thrillseeker]

Only has himself to blame. Why he would do anything to screw up the job he had is beyond me.

[robbjay66]

To quote his tag partner road dogg ''oh you didn't know? ''.............seriously though sad!

[pwaldo]

Only has himself to blame. Why he would do anything to screw up the job he had is beyond me.

Yeah basically. He has a job and a paycheck for life to go with it and he blows it to bulk up on steroids for weight lifting.

[Zeppelin1985]

I wonder if he's a high functioning addict or just made a very bad decision for the powerlifting competition..

[pwaldo]

I wonder if he's a high functioning addict or just made a very bad decision for the powerlifting competition..

I'm guessing addict. Steroids aren't really stuff that people go off of and they are easy to get addicted to. They are tricky because people don't really see them as a drug but they mess with you the same way and you don't really see yourself becoming an addict. It just becomes a normal thing.

[TKCards]

Why, Rock-a-billy, why?!? I hope this doesn't become a downward spiral for him. Ugh, what truly rotten news...

Downward spiral??? When in the last 30 years was he in an upward spiral.

[Zeppelin1985]

Downward spiral??? When in the last 30 years was he in an upward spiral.

Yes, a downward spiral. I'm speaking in regards to his personal life, personal wellbeing. He was just fired for PEDs, maybe he has an addiction problem? He was suspended from powerlifting [competition] for four years. Hence a "downward spiral"...