In an interview with Wrestling Inc over WrestleMania week, Gunther addressed his current title change.
It was revealed on an episode of NXT this January that the previous WALTER was altering his in-ring title to Gunther. When requested how the backlash to the title change affected him, Gunther mentioned that it did not.
“In no way to be sincere,” Gunther told Wrestling Inc. “If it could be the opposite manner round, if it could have been Gunther earlier than and WALTER now, it could have been the identical uproar. Lots of people react adverse to alter. However change is regular in life, and it’s a part of it, and you have to go along with it.”
Now primarily based in the USA, Gunther has just lately displayed a slimmed down physique. Wrestling Inc requested Gunther what he is been doing to get in form.
“I assume eat much less,” Gunther mentioned. “I at all times labored out loads, however I might say for the primary time, I’ve actually targeted on vitamin. These two guys [Marcel Barthel and Fabian Aichner] actually pushed me. I’ve received to say, after I was a wrestling fan, I at all times favored the look of these stable heavyweights in Japan who had just a little little bit of a intestine carrying round, simply brawlers and stuff like that. However, on the finish of the day, you’ve received to go along with the instances and evolve just a little bit. And that’s what I did.”
Gunther defeated LA Knight at NXT Stand & Ship this previous Saturday. His Imperium stablemates Barthel & Aichner misplaced the NXT Tag Staff titles to MSK in a triple risk tag crew match that additionally included The Creed Brothers.