Gunther on His WWE Career Goals & If He Sees Himself as Being Best Wrestler In The World, Doesn’t Want His Character To Be “Foreign Menace,” & His Tap Out Loss to Jey Uso at WrestleMania 41 and Crowds Chanting “You Tapped Out” To Him

A recent episode of the What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes podcast featured Gunther as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Gunther’s thoughts about his current goals for his wrestling career in WWE and how he does not keep a traditional list of goals.

“Yeah, but not in the sense of like I never had that list of ‘That’s what I want to achieve, I want to win this’ or whatever. It’s more like, I don’t know, I always kind of want to grow in the responsibility I can take on, if that makes sense. I feel like that’s what kind of drives me, where it’s like, ‘Okay, I’ve mastered this very difficult situation. Okay, now I can master something even more difficult.’ I see it kind of like in that sense. And I guess in our world that automatically means like titles, big matches, and all of that.”

Gunther also gave his thoughts about if he believes himself to be the best wrestler in the world.

“See, I don’t think about that. I don’t know … At least one of, It’s hard to say.”

Gunther also gave his thoughts about how he does not have any interest in playing a stereotypical pro wrestling “foreign menace” type character.

“No, I’m not a foreign menace. I always get a little bit annoyed because they go like, ‘Oh, he’s just a bad foreigner.’ I try to avoid everything that has to do with a flag or something. I mean, they put it on my trunks when I started out. They really wanted to have the flag on my — whatever, I got rid of it as soon as I could because it just doesn’t do anything. It’s not 1990 anymore. And I think today it’s about the person.

I feel like now America is such a diverse country and stuff like that. I don’t know, depending where you’re at, but we had a place up, like, in the Northeast a little bit or something. I barely met an American person there. There’s always somebody from somewhere else. It’s such a diverse place, I think.

It doesn’t matter where you’re born in the world. Home will always be home. And nothing will ever be able to replace it. It does not matter. Even if you come up in a country that’s poor and you didn’t have a good upbringing or something, that feeling of home, nothing can replace that.”

Gunther also gave his thoughts about him having no issue over his tap out loss to Jey Uso for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 41 and crowds chanting “you tapped out” to him at shows.

“With Jey, at that moment, that’s the thing, I can swallow my pride. When it’s over, it’s over, I have no issue with that. If the audience views that as weakness, let them be. It’s alright.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com 1 & 2, Fightful.com