[2000-04-07-NWA Germany] Dirk Rotzek & Bobby Gaetano vs Sepp Trenker & Gunther Wagner

[GSR]

I remember Bobby Gaetano from the World of Sport days so he’s getting on a bit for sure. Trenker is wearing the short sleeve lumberjack shirt, while Wagner (who doesn’t look the spriteliest himself) is in the traditional German garb complete with lederhosen. Lots of nonsense before the match commences with Trenker trying to conduct a sing-a-long with the crowd and Wagner being issued with a red card for some reason. A couple of pedestrian arm drags by Rotzek and I’ve a hunch we’re going to be in for a long night. Rotzek with an ankle lock and Gaetano just walks into the ring, no tag, and switches places with his partner, taking over in applying the hold. I’m lost! Now they’re both in there at the same time and the ref isn’t even attempting to get one of them back out. Wagner enters to try and help his partner, but they trip him up and he lands in a rather compromising position on top of him which gets a few laughs from the audience. Rotzek connects on a dropkick, the most athletic thing we’ve seen so far, and then he’s over in the opposition corner attacking Wagner. Gunther’s not in the mood for selling though. Trenker grabs hold of Dirk and they look to double team him but the action and effort is horrific. Trenker’s been carded now, maybe this is like the old public warning system? They were supposed to do the ‘tag behind the referee’s back’ spot, but Wagner forgets to distract the official, so he clearly sees the tag and then they carry on as if he never, with him ushering Gaetano out of there! This gets more bizarre as the ref slaps Wagner (who is outside the ring on the apron) across the face a couple of times for no apparent reason whatsoever. He’s not laid a finger on him but the ref clearly thinks it’s within his jurisdiction to assault the wrestlers. Gaetano waltzes into the ring again, not bothering with a tag (why even do that missed tag spot then?), as this gets even worse. Christ, Wagner can’t even take a snap mare. Rotzek tries to throw him through the ropes to the floor, but even that is too difficult of an undertaking for him. After 21 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back, Rotzek pins Trenker after a suplex. A fucking suplex! When you think this can’t get any worse, it turns out that was only the first fall and this shower is continuing! The second fall is even more laughable than the first, Wagner whipping Rotzek into the ropes and Trenker is supposed to do something from the apron. What is the $64,000 question as he loses his footing and falls to the floor! That sums this match up perfectly. Rotzek takes a bump anyway and Wagner covers him. So much for hoping that this would be done and dusted in two straight falls! Gaetano puts us out of our misery shortly after, getting the decisive pin on Trenker after a crossbody.

 

Right near the bottom of the pile for the year and an appalling excuse of a match. If I hadn’t heard of Gaetano previously I would have guessed that not one of these was trained and someone just threw the lot of them in the ring. Wagner might very well be the worst wrestler I’ve watched this year, and that includes those backyarders from Power House Pro Wrestling, Randy Hales, Reid Flair and Vince Russo. The guy is completely clueless. Rules aren’t adhered to and made up as they go along, the ‘work’ is some of the most undynamic you’ll ever see, you have the ref slapping one of the wrestlers, a pinfall occurring after a suplex, I could go on. The only thing I will say is watch the second fall and see if you can try and work out what they had in mind when Trenker falls off the apron? You’ll be as mystified as me!

[Indikator]

I might have been at the show of Günther Wagner's last match. He very well might be the worst of the Hulk Hogan impersonators. And he debuted around 1979. He made a niche in Bavaria (later on he called himself the "Bayern Hulk") for himself where apparently one third of the audience were local people of ill repute, another third undercover police and the rest wrestling fans or whatever you might want to call those who would watch that voluntarily. That was btw a description I read in a newspaper article about him.

This was NWA Germany and it should be run by Franz Schuhmann. I don't know why anything of this show was taped, it is probably proof that there is no god. What else from that show is available? Alex Styles vs. Wild Child Tom Crippler has matches 3 and 5 in their careers, they each added a single match in their careers... that is if they didn't change their names and we don't know about it. As you can see, you have stumbled upon a goldmine for the bad wrestling connoisseur

[GSR]

I might have been at the show of Günther Wagner's last match. He very well might be the worst of the Hulk Hogan impersonators. And he debuted around 1979. He made a niche in Bavaria (later on he called himself the "Bayern Hulk") for himself where apparently one third of the audience were local people of ill repute, another third undercover police and the rest wrestling fans or whatever you might want to call those who would watch that voluntarily. That was btw a description I read in a newspaper article about him.

This was NWA Germany and it should be run by Franz Schuhmann. I don't know why anything of this show was taped, it is probably proof that there is no god. What else from that show is available? Alex Styles vs. Wild Child Tom Crippler has matches 3 and 5 in their careers, they each added a single match in their careers... that is if they didn't change their names and we don't know about it. As you can see, you have stumbled upon a goldmine for the bad wrestling connoisseur

 

Thanks for the all that additional information. We have Loss to blame (or thank) for this atrocity being on our radar as it's something he added for PWO2K viewing and I'm the first to give it a watch. The match itself is a handheld that I'm guessing he found on youtube. Not sure if whomever was filming this taped anything else from the show, but this is the only German match on the list for 2000.

[Jetlag]

I've seen footage of Günther Wagner from the 80s, and he was already laughably bad then. Truely a legendary awful worker. German wrestling was way in the shitter by this point though.

 

I might have been at the show of Günther Wagner's last match. He very well might be the worst of the Hulk Hogan impersonators. And he debuted around 1979. He made a niche in Bavaria (later on he called himself the "Bayern Hulk") for himself where apparently one third of the audience were local people of ill repute, another third undercover police and the rest wrestling fans or whatever you might want to call those who would watch that voluntarily. That was btw a description I read in a newspaper article about him.

 

 

I dunno, I'd totally go check out a bunch of brothel owners grappling it out. I wonder if the videos he taked about in that interview still exist?