Gunther‘s WWE career would likely look very different if Vince McMahon were still in charge of the company.
WWE RAW Superstar Gunther was a recent guest on the Ariel Helwani Show. When asked if he believes he would have had the same success on the main roster under Vince McMahon, Gunther said his four months under Vince was a strange work experience and very confusing for him. The Ring General believes he was lucky in terms of the timing of his career that Vince departed when he did, and Triple H took over.
“I was under Vince for four months, and it was a strange work experience,” Gunther said. “The direction was very confusing. It was hard to figure out what was expected of me. Usually, there is not an issue with that. At the end of the day, everything came around for me. It was lucky in my career in terms of timing. Right place at the right time. (I’ve always been) a Hunter guy. That’s been my whole career in WWE. My directions came from Hunter.”
Gunther details his struggle working with Vince McMahon
When asked if he was happy working under McMahon, Gunther said he only had two conversations with him in the four months they worked together.
“As a person, I struggle to go along with things if I can’t logically get them,” Gunther admitted. “If there’s no objective reason for things, then I struggle. I give up quickly. ‘Okay, I don’t want to bother with this.’ Overall, I don’t think it had gotten that far yet. It was just a little bit of a confusing time.
“I had two conversations with Vince, very brief. It was very hard to get to anything with him, it was a strange work experience. It also might be a background thing, culturally, because NXT is run differently with instructions. All the jobs I had, the regular jobs in Germany, it’s as straightforward as it gets. You get told to do all the time, and if it’s not done to the highest grade, then you get told right away. It’s very different work culture.” [H/T: Fightful]
Gunther will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Jey Uso later this month on night one of WWE WrestleMania 41.
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