Booker T and Brad Gilmore welcomed WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker as their guest on the “Hall of Fame” podcast
Taker has been very complimentary of WWE World Heavyweight Champion Gunther’s work and has previously called him a throwback wrestler. Taker gave some of that same praise during his chat with Booker T.
Taker said, “Gunther is my guy. I talk about him on my show all the time. He’s a throwback. He doesn’t do anything crazy. He chops the sh*t out of you. What he does is believable. Everything he does is believable and he’ll shine you up like a good heel should.”
While praising Gunther, Taker also talked about wrestlers doing too many high risk moves. “It’s an easy blueprint without doing anything that’s really stupid and makes the risk that much more. There’s gonna be a lot of pushback. ‘Well, it’s a different era and these guys are willing to do that.’ Well, I’m telling you, I pushed the envelope in certain times, but I made the things that I did that were dangerous, I always put them in a place where they meant something. There was a call for me to do something desperate, like the dive over the top. I did the dive, but I was very judicious with the dive. I didn’t do it every week on TV. I did it when I was like, Okay, I’m in trouble in this match. I got an opening. I got to pull something out to turn the tide, or I used it in a manner to turn the tide of the match against me, but it meant something. It’s not just a high spot, like, oh look, Undertaker could dive over the top rope. No, Undertaker is willing to do that to win this match, so that’s the difference.”
The “Hall of Fame” podcast can be heard now on all streaming apps. As for Gunther, he’s going to be facing Cody Rhodes on 11/2 in Saudi Arabia for the WWE Crown Jewel Championship.
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