After becoming the creative in charge of WWE, Triple H could not establish many big names. But there are some names that he established as the main eventers. One of the names is The Ring General Gunther. He had been a huge star ever since he joined the main roster of WWE.
Soon after joining the main roster of the WWE, he won the Intercontinental Championship and also had the longest reign of the mentioned title in the history. After dropping the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 40, he shifted his attention to the World Heavyweight Championship.
Gunther claimed that working under Vince McMahon was strange
He made his claim even stronger after he won the King of the Ring tournament of 2024 and also earned the right to challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam. He defeated Damian Priest to win the World Heavyweight Championship at the mentioned event.
Gunther is the longest reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion
He had been a successful champion, and he retained the championships strongly until WrestleMania 41, where he defended the title against the winner of the men's Royal Rumble match, Jey Uso. He received a very strong build under Triple H but how successful could he be under Vince McMahon? Speaking on "The Ariel Helwani Show," Gunther explained how it felt working under McMahon,
Gunther dropped the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 41
"I was under Vince for 4 months or something and it was a strange work experience ... the direction was very confusing, it was hard to figure out what was expected of me, which usually is never an issue." he said. "At the end of the day, everything came around for me. I was lucky often in my career in terms of timing. I was at the right place at the right time very often but yeah overall I'm 100% a Hunter guy, like that's been my whole career in WWE was like my directions came from Hunter."
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Vince McMahon had been one of the most criticized men in professional wrestling history, and his latter product was not favored by most of the WWE fans. But no one can deny his contributions in establishing WWE as the biggest brand in the professional wrestling world.
Credit "The Ariel Helwani Show"
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