10 Wrestlers With The WWE Stink
8. GUNTHER
It’s not even the silly name.
It might have been had he taken the original one and shared his handle with a legitimate nazi war commander, but Gunther is no more egregious than a Cesaro or Riddle or any of the many others over the years. Not really, anyway.
Not least because this guy ain’t Walter.
Walter was a physical colossus even if he didn’t boast the height of a behemoth or the size of a super-heavyweight. Walter was an elite-tier wrestler capable of hanging with other elite-tier wrestlers that afforded WWE the rarest of hardcore fanbase wins once in a while in the new wrestling war against AEW. Walter was unlike virtually everybody else.
Gunther is every other Sports Entertainer. And not even because of the new bright red gear or the name change or the music change or the breaking up of his stable or the obvious and bewildering reduction of the chop’s importance.
Gunther is every other Sports Entertainer because he locks up, runs headlock spots, catches a dive as SmackDown rolls on, grabs a hold until the fans can be a*see to clap the babyface back into action and then runs through his signature spots with less than half the vim and vigour of old.
A violent monster can be one by any other name. But Gunther - and possibly Walter now, how knows? - categorically isn’t that in WWE.