During a recent appearance on “The Gorilla Position” podcast, WWE Superstar GUNTHER shared his views on stipulations and gimmick matches in the world of professional wrestling.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On working a hardcore match: “If it’s necessary, I guess if I have to, but I would never be the guy that goes up to the boss and be like, ‘Hey, I really want to do a TLC match’ or some other crazy stipulation. I personally like Cage Matches, I think a proper old-school cage match is a really cool attraction, but I feel like a lot of those matches turn into stunt shows at a certain point, where it’s more about who can do the riskiest jump off something instead of, okay, that’s the stipulation we have.”
On working a match with a cage: “Let’s say the cage is involved, and how do we utilize that logically and for everybody to understand and take that and build a story around it. That would be my approach to it, rather than aiming for, ‘What can I do that’s so spectacular that it will be forever in people’s minds?’ I don’t know, that has never been my personal approach. It’s up to every performer themselves, how they approach those things, but yeah, just for the sake of having a spectacular match that has some risky stuff, I would not want to do that.”
During a recent interview with Shakiel Mahjouri for SHAK Wrestling, WWE Superstar The Miz expressed his desire to face off against John Cena one last time during the latter’s retirement tour which kicks off in 2025. The Miz said,
“I am putting my name in the hat of people that want to face John Cena [or] be beside John Cena because, selfishly, I’ve been in the ring a lot with John Cena, and I want more. That’s how much fun it is getting into the ring with John Cena. I also want our new talent to experience John Cena because as much as I was taught by John and I can teach what John taught me, It’s always better when you have that guy there to teach you. So, I really want our younger talent to just feel that energy.”
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