Trivia / Walter

• Breakup Breakout:
  • From Schadenfreude. With the exception of Kid Lykos (who was forced to temporarily retire due to injury) and Chris Brookes (who became a main event player in Dramatic Dream Team) the rest of the team is still on the independent circuit.
  • From Mind, second to Tommy End, who went to the main roster of the WWE years before he did.
  • From Catch Hoolz. With the exception of Sami Callihan (who got a stint as the hacker Solomon Crowe in NXT before becoming a key player in Impact Wrestling), the rest of the stable is either retired or in the indies.
  • From Ringkampf, shared with Marcel Barthel (Axel Dieter Jr.) as the two continued to set the foundation for the NXT incarnation Imperium (Barthel showed up first, but WALTER remained the leader). As for Timothy Thatcher? Stayed in the indies another year or two before popping up in NXT, ironically working against Imperium as a face while doing angles centered around his own catch wrestling expertise as a heel, but was unceremoniously made part of the deluge of releases from the company during 2020-2021.
• Romance on the Set: He is married to former wrestler Jinny, having met while they were both in NXT UK.
• What Could Have Been: Gunther was slated to have a dream match against Brock Lesnar in WrestleMania XL, but this was canned by January 2024 following Lesnar's implication in a sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon, leading to all of Lesnar's plans for the year to be scrapped and Gunther's planned match for the Intercontinental Championship to instead be against Sami Zayn.

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