10 Terrible Wrestling Moments (That Were Almost Even Worse)
8. If You Think Gunther Is Bad...
Gunther is physically and figuratively unrecognisable from WALTER.
He was better as a slightly undefined colossus. The leaner, more shredded Gunther doesn't look like he puts as much behind his legendary chops, not that he would be allowed to unleash them to his fullest within the WWE system. There's a dispiriting, casually careless pattern to his matches now too. Getting any offence on the man used to mean something. His dominance used to build unreal drama. The aura is gone, and so too has the size of the fight in his opponents.
Between the weaker offence and the new physique, the man is quite literally diet WALTER.
That, of course, is WWE's very weird intention. They buy or used to buy great cars, and instead of driving the cars, they reupholster the cars, and make the cars less good. Just drive the car. Don't rename the car after a nazi U-boat commander.
Yes, WWE did one of two things here. At best, they were too inept and lazy to use Google. At worst, something very sinister happened before the massive backlash.
The 'Stark' surname was swiftly dropped before it made its way to television, but this remains an astonishingly dumb WWE thing even by WWE standards.