Kaiser was on the SmackDown before Bash in Berlin.
Over the summer, WWE toured Europe on the lead-up to their Bash in Berlin Premium Live Event from the Uber Arena in Berlin, Germany.
Germany’s own Ludwig Kaiser was in a United States Championship match on the Friday Night SmackDown before the PLE. He told Chris Van Vliet that he fought to get a match on the Bash in Berlin card but added that when he takes a look at the card, he understands why he was not on it.
It was great, it was awesome (wrestling L.A. Knight in Germany on SmackDown). Just because too, man, I wrestled all over Germany really. I think the first show that my mom came to see me was in front of 30 people in a garage. Really crazy, and now to, you know, bring her to Berlin and she walks into that Uber Arena and she sees me wrestle there. Man, I get goosebumps thinking about that. It was crazy. Because my mom helped me so much during my career man. My mom gave me like the last 20 bucks out of her wallet to send me to wrestling school and stuff. It’s amazing to see all of the — even friends too seeing me struggle back then. ‘Come on man, get a side job.’ I said, ‘No, I wanna wrestle. I’m just gonna wrestle. If I’m 45 and I live off the government and my body is broken, at least my best years are used for what I loved and what I wanted to do’ and that was my number one thing, you know? That’s actually why I also believe everything worked that way because I genuinely always did it for the love of the game, to do my dad proud. I’ve never did it for money or for fame or anything like that. So obviously, coming back to Germany then in front of all my people there was insane, awesome.
I did fight for it (to get on Bash in Berlin card). I did. There were conversations about it and there were also — it wasn’t really clear if it would happen or not. But again, it’s tough man. It’s a PLE. We have so much stuff. If you look at the card that night, it is almost impossible to even get on there. It’s like so much star power and again, we have the greatest superstars in the world. When I look at that card, I understand why we weren’t on that card that night, but I damn well know I will be. I will 100 percent be. Because Germany showed out that night and it’s a great market for the company and yeah, it’s my first time there with WWE really. There’s a lot of, lot of, lot of shows to come and a lot of opportunities and I can definitely promise you, Ludwig Kaiser is going to use all those.
Speaking about his time on WWE’s main roster thus far, Kaiser expressed that he learned ‘pretty quickly’ that he has tools that are perfect for the main roster. He added that it’s tailor-made for him and he has everything it takes to be a major player.
Obviously, when we first came in, the focus was heavily on GUNTHER, and to me, I hold pride in being a good professional. Not only the professional wrestler but a good professional and that means also to know your spot and know — I always try to add something to the act without taking anything away. You know, that was always my goal and the tools that I have, that I can work with very well are perfect for what we do here for the main roster, and I found that out pretty quickly so I found my ways just to, you know, make myself valuable, make the act better within the ways I was given… As good as I could pretty much.
To me, it was always about everything that is in your hands has to be 101 percent. Don’t give ‘em any reason not to see that you don’t have everything it takes to become a major player and I’ve said that before to a lot of people, especially when I came up to the main roster. Within the first weeks — being in the company for seven years already — or it was six years or something like that — I realized what we do up here, that’s me. That is me. That is the worker that I am, the professional wrestler that I am, (it is) tailor-made for me. Ludwig Kaiser, I got everything it takes to become a major player up here and that was such a new motivation almost after those years to say, listen man, now it’s all or nothing and that’s what I’ve been doing. Since then, every ball that’s thrown at me, I knock it out of the park and yeah, 101 percent, everything that I can control.
Throughout Kaiser’s eight years with WWE, he’s been slotted as a heel. He stated that he thinks he could have a good babyface run one day.
You know what? Never say never (to the idea of me being a babyface). Never say never. I do believe that I can work babyface. I think that I could be a good babyface. I got a good babyface run in me. Even when I was in Germany and I was a babyface, I was never the 100 percent of the crowd is on my side babyface. I was always very polarizing. Either people really hated me or they really liked me. Most of the times, the kids and the women liked me and the men hated my guts. Hated my guts. There was a time in wXw (Germany) where I was supposed to be that babyface runner-up and they hated it. They hated it. It was like 80 percent against 20 percent really. They’re killing me out there. But yeah, I do think I got it in me. First of all though, I gotta knock this heel thing out, be natural and be happy who I am because it comes obviously much more natural to me.
Kaiser was present on the 2/17 Monday Night Raw on Netflix and ambushed Penta after Penta scored a win over Pete Dunne.
Kaiser’s involvement in the match was not received well by Dunne, so they began brawling on the outside of the ring before Penta took them both out with a dive.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
