Recently, we saw a title change hands on Smackdown Live. Ricochet would lose the WWE Intercontential Champion to the always dominant GUNTHER. Formerly known as WALTER, his style is something that can fit into just about any era. He’s universally praised by fans and industry veterans alike, and that includes AEW’s William Regal.
William Regal Feels GUNTHER Is A Perfect Heavyweight
During the latest episode of the Gentleman Villain podcast, Regal had a chance to discuss the current WWE Intercontinental Champion. Regal had the following to say.
“He knows what he is and he sticks to what he does best, he doesn’t expose anything that he doesn’t know. He knows exactly what to do that’s got him to where he got to, he had a long time to figure it out.”
William Regal would go on to explain something he learned from one of his mentors, Terry Rudge. This is that all professional wrestlers can be separated into groups of big cats.
“I remember him having a tryout and he hadn’t figured himself out at the time. once he figured it out — WALTER, now Gunther, he is the perfect heavyweight lion. A person that was a huge influence on my wrestling style, and in helping me, was my favourite wrestler to wrestle.
I mentioned his name on here before called Terry Rudge. Terry Rudge taught me in my early 20s a lot of things about the way I wrestled and the way he thought — he had ideas about how wrestling should be.
Terry taught me that all wrestlers should wrestle like a big cat. Lightweights should be like a cheetah, middleweights should be like a puma, and light heavyweights should be like a tiger or a panther. Heavyweights should wrestle like either a lion, a tiger, or a cross between the two. If you think of the way a wrestler moves, the way he attacks, and the way — if you’re a good wrestler, it makes perfect sense.”
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