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During an appearance, former WWE world champion Gunther was met by a fan who proclaimed to have driven nine hours in order to meet him.\u00a0 Usually a lot of workers, regardless of if they\u2019re a face or a heel would probably say something along the lines of ehhh that\u2019s an honor<\/em> or ehhh I really appreciate that<\/em> or at the very least, thank you<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I mean, I\u2019m pretty self-deprecating and am really uncomfortable when any sort of praise is lavished onto me, but even I\u2019d probably say something to express my gratitude and how humbled I am that anyone would want to travel a great distance to see me, and of course, thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n But nah, Gunther claims to have told this fan:<\/span><\/p>\n Do something better with your time.\u00a0 Do something that actually benefits you.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And the thing is, I don\u2019t get the impression that he\u2019s playing the heel that he is supposed to be in the WWE character alignment chart.\u00a0 I genuinely feel like that that\u2019s precisely how he felt about the information, regardless of how well-intentioned it was. \u00a0Sure, there\u2019s some murky waters on where this quote is coming from, but if I\u2019m a betting man, I\u2019d wager that this is the real Walter Hahn coming through, and that it\u2019s not that he\u2019s probably not appreciative and grateful that people want to see him, but he genuinely believes that there are more beneficial things out there for people to want to do with their time rather than seek him out for a quick meet and greet.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve read\/watched some interviews with him in the past, and if there\u2019s one thing that has remained consistent is how often he has voluntarily opined that he was always dubious that he and the WWE would pair together, because he makes no secret that the general WWE style and his style didn\u2019t necessarily align in the past.\u00a0 He always credits Japan, specifically strong style as being more of an inspiration to him than anyone in the WWE ecosystem, but he seems intelligent enough to know that for the sake of his future and future well-being, there\u2019s no better place to go than the WWE.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, it\u2019s as if he treats his WWE career like a day job, where sure, he will give his best efforts to the company, do whatever it is that he\u2019s told in order to make as much money as he can in the time that his body can perform, but when the day is over, he will not bleed WWE and be the kind of guy that will be synonymous with the company, ten or twenty years down the line.<\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, I am a high on Gunther, and I admit that I was not on board when he first showed up in NXT UK, as Walter, looking all doughy and with man tits, and I was not on board with him ending Pete Dunne\u2019s UK championship reign.\u00a0 I thought his style was excessively stiff, and I couldn\u2019t get over the physical eye test, that this guy was being booked as such hot shit as he was.<\/span><\/p>\n But then he had matches with Tyler Bate, carried the fuck out of Joe Coffey, and then the match with Ilja Dragunov in an empty COVID-era BT studios, changed my mind, at just how talented of a worker he was.\u00a0 He showed up to NXT in America and had great matches with Tommaso Ciampa, and then eventually passed the torch to Dragunov in the highly anticipated rematch.\u00a0 Then he arrived on the main roster, but in much better shape, and over the months, would improve physically as well as find his groove working main roster.\u00a0 He won the Intercontinental blet, held it for over 600 days, and proved that he could have a good match with pretty much anyone and I was already a fan by now, and has further ascended in the company hierarchy, where he\u2019s just barely removed from having lost the World heavyweight championship for the second time.<\/span><\/p>\n And the whole time, he\u2019s been treating it like a day job, and absolutely nothing more than that, and I really love that that\u2019s the vibe he gives me, because for some reason, I really appreciate guys who operate like that.<\/span><\/p>\n One commenter, than more commenters as the story began to circulate, said one thing that stuck with me, and served as the impetus to this whole post, was along the lines of how Gunther was the WWE\u2019s equivalent to Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets\u2019 wunder center, whom it\u2019s so obvious that the NBA is his day job, and that he wants nothing more than to be home in Serbia, raising his horses.\u00a0 A ton of jokes were had within the last two weeks where footage of him sobbing with happiness<\/a> at one of his horses winning a race, compared to when he won the NBA championship for the Nuggets, and then basically asked at the press conference<\/a> when he could go home.<\/span><\/p>\n Andrew Luck<\/a> is another guy that treated his career, as an NFL quarterback, as a tedious day job, that I loved the way he conducted business.\u00a0 He clearly sat down with mom and dad with a tall glass of milk at the kitchen table, and drew Venn diagrams and wrote down career pros and cons lists and landed on NFL quarterback at being the most fiscally beneficial for the long term.\u00a0 Otherwise, when not playing football, he was far the fuck away from the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah, Gunther is totally just like Jokic and Luck in the sense that he might be an outstanding wrestler and does give his full effort to the business, but when the day is over, it\u2019s not his passion, it\u2019s not his end-all, and he probably has some interests he\u2019s way more into than wrestling.<\/span><\/p>\n A while back, I remember seeing a video of Gunther dancing at his wedding<\/a>, doing an Indian dance (Bhangra?); of course an athlete of his talent is probably doing it correctly and not looking like an idiot, but the most notable thing about it is the massive smile on his face.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ve seen a lot of Gunther over the last few years, and he\u2019s had some heel-ish smirks and smiles in his promo work, but there ain\u2019t ever been an instance where he\u2019s had such a genuine or happy looking look on his face as he is dancing with his new bride.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Man didn\u2019t give in to any sense of elation at winning the NXT UK championship, or when he won the Intercontinental championship, or even when he defeated Damian Priest for his first WWE World title.<\/span><\/p>\n WWE Superstar truly is his day job, and the fact that this attitude bleeds out into how he interacts with fans, I fucking love it.\u00a0 This whole mentality of his only serves to make me like and appreciate him more, and I can imagine that he\u2019s definitely going to be one of those guys that retires way earlier than he would be physically capable of doing, and we will absolutely not see him again, except during his Hall of Fame induction, or any overseas shows where you also know the E had forked over a hefty fee in order to entice him to show up.<\/span><\/p>\n So if we are Gunther fans, aside from the fact that we should probably be doing some more productive things with our lives, we should probably appreciate him to the fullest while we have him, because I have a feeling he\u2019s definitely going to retire earlier than lots of balls-to-the-wall professional wrestlers will.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During an appearance, former WWE world champion Gunther was met by a fan who proclaimed to have driven nine hours in order to meet him.\u00a0 Usually a lot of workers, regardless of if they\u2019re a face or a heel would probably say something along the lines of ehhh that\u2019s an honor or ehhh I really … Continue reading Gunther treating the WWE like a day job makes me like him 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