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* VillainRespect: Instead of being mad at his loss against Sami Zayn, he actually thanked him for beating him since his loss only established that he's the greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time and anyone who beat him deserves the title. He's also glad that his loss can finally have him focus on bigger things.
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* WorthyOpponent: Ever since winning the Intercontinental Championship, he's since respected any contender who tried but failed to take the title from him, which also helps that he is a fighting champion despite being a heel. Special mention to Wrestling/TheMiz, whom he dismissed as a clown and an entertainer before their match at the 2023 ''Survivor Series'', but publicly respected as a true wrestler for challenging him eye-to-eye in a fair and hard-fought match even after ultimately crushing the Miz and forcing him to tap out.
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* WorthyOpponent: Ever since winning the Intercontinental Championship, he's since respected any contender who tried but failed to take the title from him, which also helps that he is a fighting champion despite being a heel. Special mention to Wrestling/TheMiz, whom he dismissed as a clown and an entertainer before their match at the 2023 ''Survivor Series'', but publicly respected as a true wrestler for challenging him eye-to-eye in a fair and hard-fought match even after ultimately crushing the Miz and forcing him to tap out. This is also his stance on Wrestling/SamiZayn after he beat him for the Intercontinental Championship, even thanking him for the loss since he can now focus on bigger things.
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* NumberOfTheBeast: He held the Intercontinental Championship for six hundred and sixty six days.
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Walter Hahn (born 20 August 1987) is an Austrian former [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball footballer/soccer player]] turned {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and wrestling trainer trained by Michael Kovac, Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Wrestling/TomohiroIshii. He's known for his mononymous [[StageNames ring name]] WALTER, and for being an all-rounder powerhouse with the most devastating chops known to man. He's currently signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}} and performs in the ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' brand. He is also the current WWE Intercontinental Champion. He debuted for WWE in early 2019, appearing at the end of ''NXT UK [=TakeOver=]: Blackpool'' after the main event where [[Wrestling/BritishStrongStyle Pete Dunne]] retained the WWE UK Title and made his in-ring debut on [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT UK]] two weeks later.
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Walter Hahn (born 20 August 1987) is an Austrian former [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball footballer/soccer player]] turned {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and wrestling trainer trained by Michael Kovac, Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Wrestling/TomohiroIshii. He's known for his mononymous [[StageNames ring name]] WALTER, and for being an all-rounder powerhouse with the most devastating chops known to man. He's currently signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}} and performs in the ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' brand. He is also the current WWE Intercontinental Champion. He debuted for WWE in early 2019, appearing at the end of ''NXT UK [=TakeOver=]: Blackpool'' after the main event where [[Wrestling/BritishStrongStyle Pete Dunne]] retained the WWE UK Title and made his in-ring debut on [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT UK]] two weeks later.
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Among his accolades, he's a 1x and all-time longest-reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion[[note]]officially beating both Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan and Wrestling/PedroMorales for longest single reign and longest total time with the belt respectively; he became the first Austrian to hold the title just over two months into his main roster call-up, then went on to hold it for a record ''twenty months and counting,'' beating the records of both men in one go[[/note]], 1x and longest-reigning WWE/NXT United Kingdom Champion[[note]]the preface was reamed from WWE to NXT during his title reign[[/note]], 1x [[Wrestling/DefiantWrestling Defiant Internet Champion]], 1x EWP Tag Team Champion (with Michael Kovac), 1x GSW Tag Team Champion (with Robert Dreissker), 1x OTT Champion, 2x [[Wrestling/PROGRESSWrestling PROGRESS Atlas Champion]], 1x PROGRESS World Champion, 1x PWF North-European Champion, 1x [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla PWG World Champion]], 3x wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion, 3x wXw World Tag Team Champion (1x with Robert Dreissker, 1x Zack Sabre Jr., and 1x Timothy Thatcher), and win Fight Club: PRO's Infinity Trophy, wXw's World Tag Team Tournament (with Zack Sabre Jr.), World Tag Team League (with Timothy Thatcher) and 2010's 16 Carat Gold Tournament, and was ranked at #77 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018. Broadly accepted as WWE's best Intercontinental Champion of all time, even ''without'' recency bias, ''Der Ring General'' is a five-star match machine considered by many to be one of the greatest wrestlers of the modern era.
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Among his accolades, he's a 1x and all-time longest-reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion[[note]]officially beating both Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan and Wrestling/PedroMorales for longest single reign and longest total time with the belt respectively; he became the first Austrian to hold the title just over two months into his main roster call-up, then went on to hold it for a record ''twenty months and counting,'' ''twenty-two months,'' beating the records of both men in one go[[/note]], 1x and longest-reigning WWE/NXT United Kingdom Champion[[note]]the preface was reamed from WWE to NXT during his title reign[[/note]], 1x [[Wrestling/DefiantWrestling Defiant Internet Champion]], 1x EWP Tag Team Champion (with Michael Kovac), 1x GSW Tag Team Champion (with Robert Dreissker), 1x OTT Champion, 2x [[Wrestling/PROGRESSWrestling PROGRESS Atlas Champion]], 1x PROGRESS World Champion, 1x PWF North-European Champion, 1x [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla PWG World Champion]], 3x wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion, 3x wXw World Tag Team Champion (1x with Robert Dreissker, 1x Zack Sabre Jr., and 1x Timothy Thatcher), and win Fight Club: PRO's Infinity Trophy, wXw's World Tag Team Tournament (with Zack Sabre Jr.), World Tag Team League (with Timothy Thatcher) and 2010's 16 Carat Gold Tournament, and was ranked at #77 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018. Broadly accepted as WWE's best Intercontinental Champion of all time, even ''without'' recency bias, ''Der Ring General'' is a five-star match machine considered by many to be one of the greatest wrestlers of the modern era.
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* FinishingMove: A sleeper hold called "[[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Gojira Clutch]]", a lariat, a powerbomb, and a pumphandle version called the "Golden Bomb". When both of these reliable old soldiers failed to put away Pete Dunne at ''NXT [=TakeOver=]: New York'', WALTER improvised a new finishing sequence on the spot: a top rope jackknife powerbomb transitioned into the most ''terrifying'' frog splash ever witnessed by man. However, as many commenters have noted, the thing about WALTER that makes him so terrifying is that due to his stiff wrestling style ''every move he makes'' is a potential finisher, especially those chops of his.
** In the first week of December 2022, he added an [[Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa Emerald Flowsion]] to his arsenal, which he calls the "Last Symphony", by defeating Wrestling/KofiKingston with it after the latter was able to kick out of his Powerbomb. He rarely uses the Last Symphony, however, so it is like a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" finisher for him if his opponent was able to survive most of his commonly used finishers.
** In the first week of December 2022, he added an [[Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa Emerald Flowsion]] to his arsenal, which he calls the "Last Symphony", by defeating Wrestling/KofiKingston with it after the latter was able to kick out of his Powerbomb. He rarely uses the Last Symphony, however, so it is like a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" finisher for him if his opponent was able to survive most of his commonly used finishers.
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* FinishingMove: A As WALTER, he used a sleeper hold called "[[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} the [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Gojira Clutch]]", Clutch]], a lariat, a powerbomb, and a pumphandle version called the "Golden Bomb". When both of the Golden Bomb, and when these reliable old soldiers failed to put away Pete Dunne at ''NXT [=TakeOver=]: New York'', WALTER improvised a new finishing sequence on the spot: a top rope jackknife powerbomb transitioned into the most ''terrifying'' frog diving splash ever witnessed by man. However, as many commenters have noted, As GUNTHER, he uses the thing about WALTER that makes him so terrifying is that due to his stiff wrestling style ''every move he makes'' is a potential finisher, especially those chops of his.
** InFolding Powerbomb, the first week Burning Lariat, the diving splash mentioned above, and the Boston Crab, in addition to a version of December 2022, he added an the [[Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa Emerald Flowsion]] to his arsenal, which he calls the "Last Symphony", by defeating Wrestling/KofiKingston with it after the latter was able to kick out of his Powerbomb. He rarely uses called the Last Symphony, however, so it is like Symphony. This last one, he seems to use exclusively as a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" finisher for him if his when an opponent was able to survive most somehow survives the rest of his commonly used finishers.arsenal.
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Among his accolades, he's a 1x and all-time longest-reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion[[note]]officially beating both Wrestling/PedroMorales and Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan for longest total time with the belt and longest single reign respectively; he became the first Austrian to hold the title just over two months into his main roster call-up, then went on to hold it for a record ''twenty months and counting,'' beating the records of both men in one go[[/note]], 1x and longest-reigning WWE/NXT United Kingdom Champion[[note]]the preface was reamed from WWE to NXT during his title reign[[/note]], 1x [[Wrestling/DefiantWrestling Defiant Internet Champion]], 1x EWP Tag Team Champion (with Michael Kovac), 1x GSW Tag Team Champion (with Robert Dreissker), 1x OTT Champion, 2x [[Wrestling/PROGRESSWrestling PROGRESS Atlas Champion]], 1x PROGRESS World Champion, 1x PWF North-European Champion, 1x [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla PWG World Champion]], 3x wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion, 3x wXw World Tag Team Champion (1x with Robert Dreissker, 1x Zack Sabre Jr., and 1x Timothy Thatcher), and win Fight Club: PRO's Infinity Trophy, wXw's World Tag Team Tournament (with Zack Sabre Jr.), World Tag Team League (with Timothy Thatcher) and 2010's 16 Carat Gold Tournament, and was ranked at #77 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018. Broadly accepted as WWE's best Intercontinental Champion of all time, even ''without'' recency bias, ''Der Ring General'' is a five-star match machine considered by many to be one of the greatest wrestlers of the modern era.
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Among his accolades, he's a 1x and all-time longest-reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion[[note]]officially beating both Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan and Wrestling/PedroMorales for longest single reign and Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan for longest total time with the belt and longest single reign respectively; he became the first Austrian to hold the title just over two months into his main roster call-up, then went on to hold it for a record ''twenty months and counting,'' beating the records of both men in one go[[/note]], 1x and longest-reigning WWE/NXT United Kingdom Champion[[note]]the preface was reamed from WWE to NXT during his title reign[[/note]], 1x [[Wrestling/DefiantWrestling Defiant Internet Champion]], 1x EWP Tag Team Champion (with Michael Kovac), 1x GSW Tag Team Champion (with Robert Dreissker), 1x OTT Champion, 2x [[Wrestling/PROGRESSWrestling PROGRESS Atlas Champion]], 1x PROGRESS World Champion, 1x PWF North-European Champion, 1x [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla PWG World Champion]], 3x wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion, 3x wXw World Tag Team Champion (1x with Robert Dreissker, 1x Zack Sabre Jr., and 1x Timothy Thatcher), and win Fight Club: PRO's Infinity Trophy, wXw's World Tag Team Tournament (with Zack Sabre Jr.), World Tag Team League (with Timothy Thatcher) and 2010's 16 Carat Gold Tournament, and was ranked at #77 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018. Broadly accepted as WWE's best Intercontinental Champion of all time, even ''without'' recency bias, ''Der Ring General'' is a five-star match machine considered by many to be one of the greatest wrestlers of the modern era.
