Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Road Dogg Brian James who is also a former six times WWE Tag Team Champion recently revealed WWE owner Vince McMahon did not know who Gunther was when he first met him.
Gunther joined WWE back in 2019 after working on the independent circuit for over 12 years. He has worked in various independent circuit promotions from Europe and America. He had been quite successful on the Independent circuit and before coming to WWE he won a lot of championships from all around the world.
Road Dogg Reveals Vince McMahon Did Not Know Gunther When He Met Him First
He was previously known as Walter in WWE and he had been the longest running NXT UK champion in WWE history. He featured in some of the best matches in the history of NXT UK. He had a short rain in the main NXT as well before coming to the main roster recently this year.
In the main roster he had been presented as a pretty dominant force just like he was in the NXT. Soon after making his main roster debut he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship by defeating Ricochet. Currently he is going as a very strong champion and it looks like WWE has big plans for the Austrian professional wrestler.
Road Dogg Brian James who is also a former six times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke on his “Oh… You Didn’t Know” Podcast where he revealed WWE owner Vince McMahon did not know who Gunther was when he first met him. He said;
“Well, so look, Vince didn’t watch the programme. Vince heard the social media reports about the programme, he read the emails about the ratings. He got the information, but he didn’t know who Gunther was. He didn’t know what Gunther, then Walter brought to the table.
“He very much was not the guy out scouting talent and independent shows in other countries. That’s not Vince McMahon. And so he didn’t know what Walter brought to the table, excuse me, Gunther, I want to say it correctly, Gunther brought to the table.
“So he would feed stuff like that, thinking that the layperson may not know him either. And I don’t think that’s wrong thinking, you know what I mean? Like, I don’t think it’s wrong to think there are people watching the show who do not know who Walter was, you know what I mean? I think that makes perfect [sense]. [It’s then mentioned that people who watch Raw don’t all watch NXT] Exactly, exactly.
“And then we literally have the analytics to prove that and what the percentage of the show that they do watch is so minuscule usually, that it’s hard to get a read on whether they know the talent or not. Because they may watch 70 minutes of Raw, you know what I mean? Or 62 minutes of Raw and 33 minutes of, you know what I mean, of NXT? And so, did they see superstar X? Or did they turn [the channel] before he was [on], you know what I mean? So it’s, I understand his thinking of they, they may not know who Gunther is at this point.”
Quotes via Inside The Ropes