Gunther is considered by many wrestling fans to be one of the greatest wrestlers on the planet, and now former Universal Champion, Finn Balor has taken things a step further, as he claims that Gunther is the best performer on earth right now.

Speaking on What’s The Story, Balor stated:

"WALTER/Gunther, in my opinion, is probably the best performer on earth right now. In my opinion. To watch him in the ring. I get so oversaturated, seeing so much stuff, 'I just can't be arsed watching this.' I've not seen it all, but I've seen so much. I've been watching wrestling for 35 years. It's rare that I go, 'I'm interested in this.' When WALTER gets in the ring, I'm interested. I want to see everything that he does. There is no bits where I'm like, 'I know what he's going to do here for the next five minutes.' That's one of the few matches that I haven't had in my career that I really want to have. We tried to set it up right before COVID, we were trying to set it up in NXT UK, but the world had a different plan for us. We went a different way. Now we're both heels, I'm not sure how it's going to work out. I have expressed my opinion to the office that I would love to get that match in the future. Fingers crossed…”

Gunther is set to challenge Damian Priest for the World Title at SummerSlam next month.

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