KiLynn King hopes to maintain herself in her older years, much like a former trainer of hers.
Before emerging as “The Mother Effing King,” KiLynn trained at the 3D Academy before moving on to learn from “Daddy Ass” Billy Gunn. Presently, Gunn has an immense amount of popularity in All Elite Wrestling. Igniting the trend of “scissoring”, the former D-Generation member has aligned himself with the company’s tag team champions, The Acclaimed. At the age of 55, Gunn has soared to massive heights this year, both in and outside of the ring.
CCW Champion Kilynn King recently spoke with Spencer Love of Love Wrestling about her former trainer, known as the “Daddy Ass.”
“That man is just incredible,” she said. “I pray to God that when I start getting older, that I can maintain that kind of build and athleticism and just…he’s a phenomenon, I swear. It’s crazy to think he gets bigger every year. Usually when people get older, they get more frail and stuff. I think every year, he at least puts on like five pounds, in a good way, in muscle! I’m just like, ‘how do you do it, bro?!’”
“That man inspires me so much. Not just as a wrestler, and in fitness, but just as a human being. He’s just a great human being. There was a period of time where I didn’t have a car anymore, and I couldn’t come to class. I would text [him] and be like, ‘Hey, I’m so sorry. I’m not going to be at training this week,’ blah, blah, blah. His response wasn’t like, ‘Okay, thanks for letting me know’. It was ‘Cool. Where do you live?’ I’m like, ‘I’m here’. He’s just like, ‘Okay, cool. I’ll pick you up tomorrow’. And I’m like, ‘What?! Okay!’”
King continued on to recall car rides she once shared with Gunn, and the text message from him that landed her an AEW opportunity.
“Even when I started doing the independents, there was a couple times where he would be like, ‘Hey, I’m doing a local show. You want to hop in my car and come with me and do my merch table, and I’ll introduce you to the promoter?’ And I was like, ‘absolutely’. He would take me on the road with him a few times, and he would introduce me to people, and he would kind of give me a little bit of knowledge about like, ‘Hey, this is how the indies work.’ Not even that, like, there was just some personal stuff. There was a period of time where I was going through some really hard family stuff, and he was there.”
“I call him my wrestling dad, because he very much looked out for me from day one,” she said. “I always tell people that from the first day I met him there was this weird, I don’t know if he felt it, but I felt that there was this weird connection, and I was like, ‘This man is gonna play a big role in my life. He’s cool as hell. Sure enough, within a few months, he was my role model in wrestling. He had faith in me, he pushed me, and he really looked out for me during some dark times.”
“He’s the reason I ended up in AEW. He was the one who sent me the text messages and said, ‘Hey, where you at? I want them to meet you’. And I was like, ‘Yeah, sure’. Obviously, the rest is history. Fast forward two and a half years later, and those text messages changed my life. So he might be big, and scary, and intimidating. But, he’s the sweetest person I’ve ever met and I’m very, very grateful to him.”
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