10 Modern WWE Moments You Totally Don't Remember

2. The WALTER Burial

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WALTER, once considered the hardest f*cker on the circuit, never wanted to work in America full-time. He was reminded why in November of 2019.

WALTER takes the profession incredibly seriously - he voluntarily chooses to work NXT UK, such is his distaste for anything even approaching glamour - but he entered the realm of sports entertainment as part of the inter-brand warfare of Survivor Series last year. On an episode of RAW leading up to the show itself, he worked Seth Rollins out of nowhere in a nothing match that went to a non-finish in under five minutes. This was trademark gotcha pretext to an eight-man tag.

His Imperium outfit lost on UK soil. The fans of NXT UK may have been narked at this - why did our champion just get buried? - but fortuitously for WALTER's aura, no such people exist.

He was then eliminated from the RAW Vs. SmackDown Vs. NXT elimination match in two minutes. Christ, can you imagine if he actually made the full-time move?

"I am das Ring General - and you know this because it is written on the t-shirt designed to conceal my repulsive, blubbery body!"

They'd turn the f*cker into Üter from the Simpsons, failing to catch up to R-Truth in pursuit of his 24/7 Championship because he's too full of specialist German chocolate.

WALTER is Austrian, but they don't know that.

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