WWE has been trying to sign WALTER for a long time now but he didn’t want to leave Germany. Now that he has finally signed a contract, he looks to be in a position to make it big in the company.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer explained what WWE had to go through in order to sign WALTER. This is what he said:
“We knew WALTER was going, it was just a question of when. WALTER’s a very interesting case because almost everyone I’d say I’m gonna guess but I would think that everyone on that [NXT UK] roster and everyone on the NXT roster, their goal is to get to the main roster and make the big money. That is not WALTER’s goal in life. WALTER could be on the main roster right now on top and he’s turned them down because he’s not interested.”
“He wants to live in Germany and he was not interested in going to Florida to go to NXT. He doesn’t mind trips to the United States but he doesn’t want to live here and he doesn’t want to do long tours here, come in for a weekend, that’s cool. But he wants to live in Germany. He turned down New Japan, you know they wanted him. He doesn’t want to do three weeks in Japan or anything like that. He wants to live in Germany, he had a lot of work in Germany. He was an employee of wXw, helped run their school, and he was very happy with his life.”
“The gist is that in WWE UK and probably again, it’s most likely there’s gonna be a German outlet — NXT Germany — and he’ll be the guy there. But the UK, he was working in the UK anyway so he’s gonna work based in the UK.”
“The way I had heard it months ago when it was pretty clear that he was gonna go was that he agreed that he would go to and he might come in for some weekends for NXT as he does already where he comes to the United States and does some stuff. Like he might build maybe some TVs and do a TakeOver. But he doesn’t want to live here and that’s his thing. So that’s his deal and maybe more will come out as time goes on.”
It is to be noted that wXw is one of the companies that the NXT UK wrestlers can work at.
Dave mentioned that WALTER is done with his indie wrestling commitments at the end of 2018. So he’ll be ready to work in January, which is just in time for the for NXT UK’s first-ever TakeOver event on January 12th.
We will have to wait and see just how much of an impact WALTER will have in the company. But if his past work is anything to go by, it should be a great addition to NXT.
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h/t to Ringside News for the transcription.
