WWE: Gunther on Last Few Months of WWE World Heavyweight Title Reign Were Not “Ideal for Me”, Ludwig Kaiser on Missing Out on Bash In Berlin Card, JDC Says Shawn Michaels Said He Has 1-2 Matches Left in Him

Feb 19, 2025

Gunther Comments on Last Few Months of His WWE World Heavyweight Title Reign Were Not “Ideal for Me”

Daily Mail held a recent interview with current WWE World Heavyweight Champion Gunther. One of the topics discussed included Gunther’s thoughts about how the last few months of his current title reign were not ideal for him but he is now back to his old self.

“I don’t think the last few months were ideal for me. I lost to Cody (Rhodes), and then everything that — that feud with (Damian) Priest, it didn’t allow me to show the best side of me, if that makes sense. But I think now I’m back to my old self. I feel my mojo again.”

Gunther also gave his thoughts about the potential of him facing off against John Cena in a match for his WWE World Heavyweight title during Cena’s retirement tour.

“It’s the last chance to get in the ring with him, so if that ever becomes a possibility, I would definitely take that. John Cena is obviously one of the wrestlers, you can put him onto Mount Rushmore. If I get the chance, I would definitely like to do that. Let’s see how it plays out. Maybe I can end up as his last chance to win a championship at some point in that year, and I can be the one that crushes all those dreams. That would be very enjoyable.”

Ludwig Kaiser Comments on Missing Out Being on WWE Bash In Berlin Card

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Ludwig Kaiser as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Kaiser’s thoughts about how he had pushed to get a match on WWE’s Bash In Berlin event this past August and him understanding why he was not on the event.

“It was great, it was awesome (wrestling L.A. Knight in Germany on SmackDown). Just because too, man, I wrestled all over Germany really. I think the first show that my mom came to see me was in front of 30 people in a garage. Really crazy, and now to, you know, bring her to Berlin and she walks into that Uber Arena and she sees me wrestle there. Man, I get goosebumps thinking about that. It was crazy. Because my mom helped me so much during my career man. My mom gave me like the last 20 bucks out of her wallet to send me to wrestling school and stuff. It’s amazing to see all of the — even friends too seeing me struggle back then. ‘Come on man, get a side job.’ I said, ‘No, I wanna wrestle. I’m just gonna wrestle. If I’m 45 and I live off the government and my body is broken, at least my best years are used for what I loved and what I wanted to do’ and that was my number one thing, you know? That’s actually why I also believe everything worked that way because I genuinely always did it for the love of the game, to do my dad proud. I’ve never did it for money or for fame or anything like that. So obviously, coming back to Germany then in front of all my people there was insane, awesome.
I did fight for it (to get on Bash in Berlin card). I did. There were conversations about it and there were also — it wasn’t really clear if it would happen or not. But again, it’s tough man. It’s a PLE. We have so much stuff. If you look at the card that night, it is almost impossible to even get on there. It’s like so much star power and again, we have the greatest superstars in the world. When I look at that card, I understand why we weren’t on that card that night, but I damn well know I will be. I will 100 percent be. Because Germany showed out that night and it’s a great market for the company and yeah, it’s my first time there with WWE really. There’s a lot of, lot of, lot of shows to come and a lot of opportunities and I can definitely promise you, Ludwig Kaiser is going to use all those.”

Kaiser also gave his thoughts about his current time in WWE’s main roster and learning pretty quickly that he has tools that are perfect for the main roster.

“Obviously, when we first came in, the focus was heavily on GUNTHER, and to me, I hold pride in being a good professional. Not only the professional wrestler but a good professional and that means also to know your spot and know — I always try to add something to the act without taking anything away. You know, that was always my goal and the tools that I have, that I can work with very well are perfect for what we do here for the main roster, and I found that out pretty quickly so I found my ways just to, you know, make myself valuable, make the act better within the ways I was given… As good as I could pretty much.
To me, it was always about everything that is in your hands has to be 101 percent. Don’t give ‘em any reason not to see that you don’t have everything it takes to become a major player and I’ve said that before to a lot of people, especially when I came up to the main roster. Within the first weeks — being in the company for seven years already — or it was six years or something like that — I realized what we do up here, that’s me. That is me. That is the worker that I am, the professional wrestler that I am, (it is) tailor-made for me. Ludwig Kaiser, I got everything it takes to become a major player up here and that was such a new motivation almost after those years to say, listen man, now it’s all or nothing and that’s what I’ve been doing. Since then, every ball that’s thrown at me, I knock it out of the park and yeah, 101 percent, everything that I can control.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

JDC Says Shawn Michaels Said He Has 1-2 Matches Left in Him

A recent For The Love of Wrestling fan event for Monopoly Events featured TNA talent JDC, former Fandango in WWE, as one of the guests. One of the topics discussed included JDC revealing that WWE Hall of Famer and WWE SVP of NXT & Talent Relations Shawn Michaels had told him when he was at NXT last week that he feels he has one to two more matches left in him.

“You know who I talked to last week who said he’s got one or two matches left in him? Shawn Michaels. He’s the reason why I got into the business so, honestly, it’d probably never happen but that would be my dream match with Shawn.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com