WWE Superstar and current Intercontinental Champion Gunther recently sat down with The Dallas Morning News to discuss a myriad of topics. Check out the highlights below.
On ignoring the rumors he sees online:
I mean, rumors are rumors. And at the end of the day, I’m not the CEO. I’m a wrestler. So, I focus on what I do in the ring and leave the business to the people that do business.
On moving to the main roster and finding his place:
I feel very comfortable in the situation I’m in right now. It’s very demanding and very challenging on the body and life in general, I would say, but in a very positive way. So it’s a very exciting time for me right now. I feel like in NXT before, I kind of proved myself a while ago and outgrew it a little bit, if that makes sense. And being on the main roster, it was a completely new situation for me again and I again had to step up and prove myself and introduce myself to a wider audience. And I think I’m doing well so far. It’s going really good. I’m looking forward to every new challenge that’s in front of me. And I can’t really complain about anything to be honest.
On being reunited with all of Imperium:
First of all, it was, it was hard when only myself and Ludwig moved up and Gio kind of stayed behind. And being all together again is fantastic. Besides from the in-ring, it’s great to travel with your two best friends that you have and spend basically all day – if you travel a lot, that can be challenging at times, and it’s great that you can go through situations with two very good friends and you don’t have to do it on your own. So very blessed in that regard. In the ring, I’m extremely proud of both. I think they worked really hard in NXT for a very long time. And now they’re on the platform that they deserve, and they deserve to be seen. They’re both very good wrestlers. They’re excellent wrestlers in the ring, I think there are just a very few that actually are in the same league with them when it comes to the actual in-ring mechanics. And I’m excited to see where their path will go.
On having many physically demanding matches:
Obviously, it’s physically very demanding. Our sport in general is very physically demanding. And, yeah, the matches you named, those are the matches where you put in the extra work, where you have to walk an extra mile compared to most of the other matches you have. So you’ll definitely feel that, but that’s nothing to complain about. It’s the profession I chose and that’s part of it. Mentally, it’s getting the response [from fans and peers] in that fashion – it’s a very good feeling at the end of the day, obviously. Because you put in so much work – basically half my life now in wrestling – you put in a lot of work and take on all the difficulties that come with the life of a wrestler, and at the end of the day, you do it for those moments when basically you leave your heart and soul in that ring and then it gets appreciated by everybody in that regard. So, it’s always a very good feeling.
You can read the entire interview here.
