Gunther doesn’t believe that anyone cares anymore that he’s not known as WALTER.
WWE Intercontinental Champion Gunther was a recent guest on the Cheap Heat podcast to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked how he felt about the name change from WALTER to Gunther, he admitted he would have preferred to keep the name but knows that a name change in wrestling isn’t uncommon.
“Well, the thing is like, Would I prefer to keep WALTER? Yeah, of course, I’m gonna prefer that,” Gunther admitted. “But on the other hand, if you look at a wrestler’s career, a name change is nothing uncommon. That happens. So I was realistic about it.
“And for me, at the end, it was also clear, it’s my real name, and the WWE has obviously interest in whoever they put on the television to put their original stamp on it if that makes sense. So I expected it. Obviously, Gunther is — at the end of the day, if Gunther would be my real name and they would have changed it to WALTER, the reaction would have been exactly the same.
“WALTER is just another older German name. So I think it was more a case of being used to a certain name. And now there’s a new name, but I think, yeah, just as I expected, nobody cares anymore about that. Nobody’s worried about a new name anymore.”
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