Wrestling Thread 7: FTR Baldhausen • Page 93

Watching the BTE from yesterday, anyone else notice the arena looked empty as fuck when they were showing the Bucks/Redragon segment from Dynamite?



I guess it was just the hard cam side? That's normal I suppose idk

 

Why can’t they just leave things alone in NXT and transition them that way. It’s worked when they do and failed when they make changes. It would be like a test audience living something and they say no no no let’s scrap it! lol

 

Not that normal. The arena was emptier than usual from the pics posted online. Not sure if it has anything to do with it but that was the third NC show in a month. Might be some fatigue plus COVID.

 

This mf moved to the US to be name changed to Gunther

 

Did wwe actually change WALTER’s name to the name of a nazi general or is that a dumb twitter thing?

 

They did

they also turned sarray into a Japanese schoolgirl stereotype

 

Me after reading any WWE-related news the last 6 months

 

And we can only dream that WWE will have the turnaround he managed after getting clean and sober.

 

Defenders will argue there was 18 million Nazis (just quoting a number I've seen used in tweets - didn't fact check) and you can't come up with a German name without matching one. Unlikely, but here's the thing then, maybe don't change his name and thereby become accountable for it.

 

Yeah, hard to avoid ending up with a name really similar to a grunt soldier, but not so hard to avoid hitting the name for a U-boat commander. Who's the #1 google search result. This is the kind of stuff having an even halfway decent writers room would avoid...one writer googles a proposed name and goes "hmm, lets go with Gunther ___(anything else)____"

Someone on Reddit broke down that they really did seem to be headed towards a gimmick hinting at Nazism. Which you can avoid by having him be named Walter and be Austrian: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/s7nj4z/nxt_spoilers_more_bad_news_about_the_new/

 

Biggest German newspaper has picked up the Walter stuff


Yikes

 

Exactly. You can almost hear someone in a writing room say "But it's okay, he was an ineffective u-boat commander!"

 

Lol why does My Way just make everything better?

 

It’s a travesty that that promo is only on the network, maybe the best wrestlemania promo/song combo ever

 

The one thing WWE has always been good at, videos promoting major feuds lol

 

I mean, come on. If this doesn't get you hyped idk what will.

 

Wow. It's actually real.

 

So he’s just Gunther now?