In a recent interview with Sam Roberts, GUNTHER discussed the art of balancing a wrestler’s on-screen gimmick with their private persona.
GUNTHER explained his belief in the potential benefits of playing a role on camera that is intentionally dissimilar to who he is behind the scenes. In his mind, the technique helps fortify the separation between the career and private aspects of life. He said,
“There’s obviously different sides to this profession, like the professional person that is me and obviously there is the private person that is me. Sometimes I think they don’t have that much in common, but I think that’s a healthy balance, I think at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how much you enjoy it, it doesn’t matter how much it means to me, it is my profession, and we’ve all got to have a different side of life that has nothing to do with that. I try really try to not build or identify myself, in life in general, through who I am in the ring.”
On a recent edition of the “FTW Podcast,” Nick Dinsmore discussed how he became a pro wrestling trainer.
Dinsmore has worked as a trainer and coach for OVW and WWE.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On how he became a trainer: “I just kind of fell into coaching. I think it was more that Danny Davis at OVW noticed that I had a knack for telling people how to do something simply that way they can understand. So, I was a coach for a bit at OVW when guys like John Cena, Batista, and Randy Orton were there. Then I opened my own pro wrestling company in South Dakota, had that for a while. I also coached at the Performance Center. It’s just something that I’ve been able to do, so whenever I come to town, and I’m wrestling on a show, a lot of the promoters say that their wrestlers want a seminar. So, we sit down, we talk about the business, watch the matches, watch some technique, and share some knowledge.”
On his coaching pet peeves: “Even if you have a simple match and it looks perfect and solid, that’s better than trying to have an A+ match where you do all kinds of stuff and half of it looks phony. I was thought that you’re supposed to make this business not look phony, and in the psychology of the business, if I’m running around doing jumping jacks and [hurricanranas] off the top rope, some people go, ‘Can that really happen?’ Even the fact of shooting somebody in the ropes, you probably wouldn’t see that in a bar fight. We have to suspend our disbelief at some point, but when guys do things that just make it look unreal [that’s his pet peeve]. I don’t know that the fans see it that way. Sometimes you start wrestling, you start learning, you see behind the curtain, and all of the sudden, you can’t go back and just watch.”
