Jim Cornette Reviews Gunther's Smackdown Debut
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2022
- From Episode 239 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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Walter should run through every lower and mid carder before facing Drew in Royal Rumble match, where they do the Taker vs. Shawn 2007 like a mini match before doing the actual match at Wrestlemania. Chop Fest.
This is it!
yup build him up like a monster
well it was Cody and Gunther but it was awesome to
That Seed promo Jim gave at the end of this video was glorious. From the mouth to the asshole, it’s all part of the same highway. 😂
If WWE handles Walter right, the name change will be very minor. Emphasis on the IF of course.
He has future world champion written all over him, he needs to win the intercontinental title just to give that title some excitement and really boost it up and then move right into the world title picture but they need to book it quick before the moment is gone
Haha wwe handling anyone correct
@@Drollpanther yeah like poor Roman........
@@ShawnMega Exception to the rule
@@Drollpanther They are doing pretty well with Edge
People r so caught up in aew signing all of wwe talent from back when , they don’t even realize wwe is building young stars on the downlow ,,, bron, Gunther, theory , more to come
@Jay Bee
Everyone seems to hate on her, but even though she's still green, Tiffany Stratton is money and the future of the WWE women's division imo. She's got that super woman/Mrs. Perfect look, decently attractive, and being an ex-gymnast, she hits a beautiful standing moonsault, that makes Charlottes look like shit.
For once, yes they are. I guess they get a cookie when they're supposed to?
Gunther is 34💀💀 yeah ig wwe supposed to get a cookie for doing something they should have did a long time ago
Anyone else noticed that Gunther has been getting more and more slimmer this year? I mean, there is a picture of him at the gym looking in a much better shape than he used to be.
Well, there's a reason why Vince McMahon didn't get behind Keith Lee and Samoa Joe...
@@israeloagiledintlhe4166Samoa Joe kept getting injured and then I think when he was getting pushed as a face something happened that ultimately screwed him
@@XxPlatinumChief Dude, Aesthetics matter to Vince McMahon, look at Rex Steiner and Austin Theory...
@@israeloagiledintlhe4166 Joe did fine. He was often in the upper card. Injuries derailed him.
@@israeloagiledintlhe4166 it should matter to anyone being presented on tv. Whether it's a goulish heel or white meat babyface or a fat manager etc. Christ Jim powers would eat half these guys alive these days and lost 90% of the time back in the day.
Lol, I been waiting for this one. When they announced Ludwig Kaiser I was like who the hell is that? And then realized it was Marcel Bartel. It's like wwe expect us to forget NXT is even a thing.
So ridiculous 🙄
If AJ Styles arrived in 2022, they would have named him CJ Fashion
It is ridiculous but most people who watch Raw and Smackdown don't watch NXT, NXT UK so they're not forgetting anything. I am not defending all of the names changes, I just think that's how they look at it.
@Jay Bee developmental ? If NXT UK is "developmental", then why do they hire veterans ?
@Jay Bee I can imagine bruce Prichard and maybe kevin dunn saying well nobody watches nxt so no one will know what his name was🙄🙄. Idiots
He's gotten himself in great shape and beat that dude straight to AEW Dark. The name change thing in this instance was a nitpick. Gunther actually sounds more intimidating but people who pretend to have seen him in Evolve will fake care. Normal fans don't always take the foreign heel well but luckily he wrestles like a savage and is intense. Good start for sure at least.
@Davy Jones Gunther sounds way less intimidating than Walter. Gunther sounds like the name of a lackey in an 80s Saturday morning cartoon.
I like the foreign heel gimmicks especially when they win a championship and do the foreign celebrations those are always great
@@wilcee238 and Walter sounds like he'd be a new friend or advisory for a reboot of Arthur.
@@wilcee238 “Dude stop fake caring”
@@wilcee238 Walter likes cucumber sandwiches 😀
I've been making the 'Killer' Kowalski comparison for at least a year now.
Of course the damn millennials have no damn idea who he is.
Imperium vs the bloodline would have been epic and someone like Gunther could realistically beat Roman and that's how you build a star, Gunther is over with the fans and people would buy it so I am not sure how they could mess this up
Because it's two heels/heel factions
The mess up is right there before the hypothetical started
@@christopheramaro333 they did 2 heel factions the shield vs the Wyatt’s and it was awesome
@@pleaseshutup7053 absolutely correct, all they need to do is bring in Imperium as a bad ass faction that claims they are the top faction and they want all the gold that's the story. 2 heels can feud but it doesn't work for 2 faces to feud
@@christopheramaro333 2 heels can feud if it means trying to control a brand and imperium may be heels but they are beloved by fans and fans would want them to take down the blood line, Gunther vs Roman and Marcel and aichner vs the usos has classic written all over it. The story is there, controlling smackdown and all their belts
@@followerofchrist1994 love this idea because it establishes imperium as a big deal right away
Gets mad at Tony for putting Brain Cage with a jobber but praised WWE for doing the same here… ultra hypocrisy.
Careful now… you’re making sense.
Was cage making his debut on a new brand ?
Because squash matches are a thing for building up new talent which is this case sense
I really hope Walter becomes one of the megastars in the company. He is such a badass and I hope wwe doesn’t turn him into a joke immediately. He needs to have a rusev type of run without being beaten of course
MEGASTAR???! LA KNIGHT YEAHHH
This was one of the better reveals but leaves me concerned at the same time.
I don't care much for Marcel being called Ludwig Kaiser and I do like they are using him to introduce Walter like Ricardo did back when Alberto Del Rio was wrestling.
My concern is Vince, Bruce or Creative will forget why we love Walter and completely fuck him over with the gimmick or booking.
They've already ruined it for me a bit really liked Imperium as a group
@@FirstLast-yh7gj Same. I would have brought them all up together. Until a slot is available for him to do something with Drew or Roman, you can flatten New Day and you can actually run an angle with that, given how New Day's behavior has desecrated the sport.
I think this is the first time we've had a Ludvig in WWE since Ludvig Borga. As for GUNTHER's opponent here, Joe Alonso; two weeks prior to this he got almost equally destroyed by Veer Mahaan on WWE's weekend show, MAIN EVENT. Hasn't been a good stay in McMahonland thus far for ol' Joe. He wrestled some AEW matches in 2020 as well on their DARK program.
I was gonna say I thought I recognized the name from AEW. He's one of Sammy Guevara's friends.
Who
@@RJSigma Wasn't he the douche that tried crashing the ALL OUT fanfest panel looking for a job because he was Sammy's buddy? He got into a war of words on Twitter with Fuego Del Sol as well IIRC.
Gunther said he doesn’t mind the name change at all so it’s all good
The weight loss doesn't bother me as much. WALTER is still huge, and the added muscle I think will make him look all the more impressive when he's chopping the ever living hell out of McIntyre, and strutting around with a world title on his waste.
That's a great fantasy you have there... but in reality Walter will be chasing the 24/7 title after jobbing out to Mcintyre in a 3 minute job match at a throwaway pre-pay per view match in order to undermine the fans' expectations of that match-up.
I thought Ludwig had some great facials,he is underated
Walter is moving up as deserved. And, another great ad for Seed. 😆
KILLER KOWALSKI….Yes, that’s exactly what Walter reminds me of in his current shape.
Is there anything better than day off Corny Clips?
When Corny said there's no L in Gunther I started laughing that match was incredible he looked like that GUY
(Thumbnail)
'You know, you got spunk!'
Jimmy going into the weeds with that Seed promo. 😂😂😂😂
I love how Gunther is being presented. I also like how Ludwig acts like he's conducting a symphony when he hears the screams from the opponent. They come across as old school, villainous heels- my favorite. I hope they leave them alone and let them keep doing what they're doing.
jim and brian corsping thru the last 2 mins of this is the content im here for lol
G U N T H E R , G U N T H E R ,
G U N T H E R , G U N T H E R
Ludwig was Marcel.
Best part of the show
Who
I never saw the imperium before but they reminded me of a certain faction from WW2 🤣
Oh I know this one. You're talking about the British aren't you? Those stuck up cnuts.
Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐
Those tights that he was wearing reminds me of Terry Funk with the different colors on both sides of the tights the front is red the back is black
Hey is that Gunther or Nash Carter in the thumbnail? Ha.
This was great but why would WWE Change Walter Entrance Theme since that's what got him over in NXT UK WWE loves to change what isn't broken what's the saying if it ain't broke don't fix it.
I don't think Vince wanted to continue to pay for New World Concerto, which sucks because it's one of the all-time greatest pieces of music in the history of humanity.
Edit: Actually, I don't if that's how it works with classical pieces like this. If I remember right, Damien Sandow came out to some classical music, too.
@@poindexterflex3528 yes he did.
@@poindexterflex3528 the old theme was a royalty free theme. Have no clue as to why they changed it. That's the main reason I started paying attention to imperium was because of their badass theme.
@@poindexterflex3528 Classical musical compositions (the arrangement of notes) are royalty free in that you can charge people to listen to you play say Mozart or Ravel or whatever, however the individual performance itself and recording of said performance may not be royalty free. So someone recording you playing Beethoven cannot just sell or use that recording for profit without your permission. In short, anyone could technically pay their in-house music team to play whatever classical piece they choose and hold a copyright to that performance.
so all he need is The Kaiser's WW1 medals on the jacket
I hope someone saved a clip of that ad promo for future use. I'm glad I didn't skip ahead.
Unimproved highway, indeed!
Walter is a monster
Remember folks not the name but how they perform in the ring if you all worry about the name and don't care there ring work why watch not like they water him down just name change and he's in better shape and Walter accepted it and people should also
I'm sure Fabian gets repackaged, either as a teen idol because of his name when Vince is old enough to recall the singer Fabian, or as a goon for Tony D'Angelo since Aichner is actually Italian.
Imagine the hype a UFC fighter gets when he mauls like 5 fighters before he reaches a a decent talent and then beats them but is pushed a little bit. It's a natural build and the fans go this dude is a beast. Next UFC fighter struggles for 3 rounds with 5 guys and then gets a split decision with decent talent. Book your beasts wrestlers like the first fighter not the second.
i almost dont even care what vince does anymore with walter as long as i get to see more of this man wrestle
The only thing that kills me is they change their names after they were a different name a few days prior
They should have come out with Gunther saying he's Walter's brother.
He is Walter's brother
Yeah jobber matches like this need to make a strong comeback
I'm closer to my dream match of Drew vs WALTER
If Brock vs Roman is anything to go by, don't hold your breath.
“It’s not rocket surgery”
I never thought I’d hear Jim Cornette quote BlastphamousHD
When Corny said the mouth and asshole are connected and the same highway I lost it laughing that shit was funny. God damn it we need Corny back in a wrestling promotion
Yeah, this is why I never skip the ads. Most people probably do, but they shouldn't because half of them are hilarious. You just never know.
WWE has been doing a good job making new stars imo, Gunther, Theory, Breakker, etc
foreal can’t say one bad thing about the new stars like bron, carmelo, grayson, theory…
Why change the name of a wrestler who is already over with your fan base?
If Walter went to AEW he’d be 350 lbs and they would make him do backflips to the floor
AEW doesn’t make them do that they want to and nobody says no
@@Matt-mj1xh I’m saying he’d be peer pressured into it
So they’re not keeping Fabian Archer?
The name is good,i can at least remember it. I dont remember marcel marsoo
Gunther looking like M. Bison.
You mean Balrog!
Only time i had ever seen Joe Alonzo was a few squashes on AEW last year
I almost felt bad for his opponent lol but instead thought it was awesome!
The 2 Austrians stayed together, ( 1 Austrian and 1 German ) so it makes sense, and I’m Austrian so all the people who hate on Gunther’s name are stupid, Walter is a German name, but Gunther is an Austrian name, so it makes sense, but obviously nobody would know about that smh
Calling him Ludwig Borga would've gotten some serious heat from Finnish people, we really don't want to be reminded that Tony Halme was a thing at all.
Kind of like people chanting something at a NASCAR event and the reporter lying turning it into a meme.......
Almost 3 quarters of this video is about the ad.
Gunther’s jacket looks like Justin Bieber’s Grammys coat
“They put him in Rose Marie’s outfits.”
I guffawed.
Gunther in his red raincoat 😆 lol
Who
You got me, Jim
Gunther goes to Pettycoat Junction !!
hopefully the creed brothers get over with jim after this week
After that horrible gauntlet match? I wouldn't bet on it.
@@Kancerru it was pretty good, you hating for cheap pop likes
@@FraGiocondo9 I like the Creed Brothers, I'm just calling it what it was. The match was extremely sloppy and exposed the Creeds by putting their greenness on full display.
@@FraGiocondo9 pop likes ? 😂 I remember when wrestling fans were cool
It was Marcel that got called up to Smackdown with Gunther/WALTER
Someone needs to make a compilation of Jim’s best ad reads. I hate ads normally, I upgraded to CZcams Premium for that very reason, but his is pretty much the only sponsored content that I don’t skip over just because of how hilarious his delivery is/all the outlandish shit that he adds on to the copy. Definitely works for who his audience is though. If Cornette has to shill for a company he’s at least going to do it his way, in promo-fashion, lol.
Why didn't you just install an ad blocker instead of paying Google not to pester you?
i so hope the wwe handle walter right.
they easily got a badass tough big guy wrestler here for main events
i mean..nearly everyone like to watch this dude
If only this was his first time in front of the main roster, but this is the guy they eliminated within mins at Survivor Series.
And to a guy they later turned into a joke before firing.
@@billywashere6965 didn’t he get eliminated by Drew?
Unimproved highway hahaha
I bet they broke them up to put the Italian one with D’Angelo 🙄
Gut Health is important yet the Co-host has 0 gut health then insert promo.
Gunther is the worst name possible for him I choose Walter!
It's somewhat surprising that Jim doesn't know Marcel Barthel considering he said he liked Imperium a lot. Anyway, Other than the Red coat which is a minor inconvenience there was indeed very little wrong with this. I do worry about Fabian Aichner, he's too talented to be put to the side. Also I hope Kaiser won't be relegated to just be a manager since he's also excellent. There really shouldn't have broken up Imperium... But let's enjoy what's positive. Gunther on the main roster!
I don't consider him being on main roster a positive lol
I prefer the lean and mean look
Same
I think you should have done a Stephen P noon commercial instead 😉 😏 😀
Well that went West quickly.
Wait a minute. Pete Dunn is Bushwhacker Butch, the guy with Walter is Ludwig Borga, and Walter is Gunther, the guy from the show Friends who ran the coffee shop. Vince really is trying to relive the 1980s and 1990s. 😉😂🤣
Let's Get Cornette a cake
Lol Marcel
I don't fucking care if I get banned, I'm not calling him a Confederate name. He's Walter!
Confederate name?
Ludvig Borga mainittu, torilla tavataan!
He's a woke field marshall
So Walter lost weight and changed his name to Gunther
There's a D in Gunther. At the end.
Why does Jim call him Valter or am I hearing him wrong
That's how it's pronounced.
@@highpriestessgabagool5170 I have only ever herd him say it in not UK they called him Walter
Rocket surgery brain science lol
Yea hes marcel,now ludwig lol
I think the weight loss is good. He was great before but now he looks lean and mean
Why the hell does Cornette always say "Valter"?
Because it's his name.
@@josefsad1502 No, his name was Walter, not Valter.
@@JMFSpike I am referring to what Cornette said and not what you wrote. I am from Austria just like Walter and I don't even know the difference in pronounciation of Walter and Valter. It's not the first letter in his name that is pronounced wrong by everybody it's the second.
I hope he doesn't get Kozlov'ed
Walter Hahn is not compareable to Kozlov because he is allready one of the highest decorated wrestler in the world, with many five star matches! Wwe should be clever and take advantage of his skill and talent rather than putting him in a comedy act throwing sauerkraut and bratwurst into the audience like the New Day did with pancakes and cereal.
Big mike vs Walter, winner gets cornys hottub for 5mins in support of his blm and wakanda rights. Corny tell us how diaper Joey is the greatest president ever you support plz just like the 90s when you loved hil
🤣🤣
Kozlov 2.0
Corny, Dagnabit!!!!
WALTER will be jobbing soon, mark my words. The absurd one dimensional names and gimmicks are going to sink him, and also totally sink 'Kaiser', immediately.
Yeah I'm not sure why so many people here seem to have forgotten what WWE did to Rusev, who had the exact same gimmick, and Kozlov, who also had the exact same gimmick.
ffs, I tune in to listen to him talk about Gunthers match, instead half the video is on a damn probiotic.
Oh come on. This is the only podcast where the ads are entertainment in themselves.
They can't add anyone else to this group. WWE main roster writers will run out of German-y names.
Jim cornette pretend like he don't know anyone or he don't watch the show but mean while cuts a heel promo on everything they do .and still nobody agree with them lol
Rocket surgery?
I love it! Especially with this mark audience now with the chanting. Have Walter/Gunther go out there and speak his native tongue German to shut the people up. I'd have Ludwig Kaiser be a little bit more annoying and have more of a comical approach but not like how Butch been trying to do
Why is his name all of a sudden different now?
Gunther is a much better name than Walter.
I jus wanna say...I saw Walter and heard Marcel’s name change...took me a bathroom break...heard the match goin and asked my wife who’s he killin? She says Alonso n explains what he looks like, she don’t understand squashes...had me like wait who else is debuting!? I had to peak thru the door from the toilet jus to see Walter finish killin this nobody guy lol was thinkin who the fuck did Vince rename Alonso!? Please don’t be Xavier Woods 😂he looks like an Alonso kinda
Because Gunther is a so much different name than Walter. It's entirely worth the effort to build him under one name then change it. Idiots 🙄.
It’s a name dude. Get over it
@@joegreene7619 It’s dumb to change his name,with no explanation, regardless of whether most fans watch NXT or not. The dude was massively over on a smaller scale. So,you throw away the recognition,so they can own another character trademark. They are kind of spitting in the face of fans who were into Walter. They are saying,”no,Walter the bad ass wasn’t good. The cartoonish evil foreign military character named Gunther is good”. I can see Walter in AEW at this time next year.
@@lodi70005 Nothing has changed about him other than his name and maybe the some color added to his gear. He was always the Ring General even before WWE.
@@lodi70005 1. They changed his name to that of Austrian descent - which is where he’s from. 2. They want to own his name which means he can’t keep his indie name. 3. The Gunther character explained why his name was changing on TV during a promo. What more do you want? Lol
@Jay Bee I’m sure the fact that he said this while under contract to the company that changed his name had nothing to do with his opinion on the name change.