Walter (wrestler)

Walter
Walter during Big Japan Pro Wrestling event in 2012
Birth name Walter Hahn
Born (1987-08-20) August 20, 1987
Vienna, Austria
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Big Daddy Walter
Big van Walter
Gha-cha-ping
Man Mountain Walter
Pater Walter
Walter
WALTER
Billed height 6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Billed weight 310 lb (22 st 2 lb; 140 kg)
Trained by Michael Kovac
Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Tomohiro Ishii
Debut November 19, 2005

Walter Hahn (born August 20 1987)[1] is an Austrian professional wrestler and trainer better known by the ring name WALTER. He has appeared in a number of promotions in Europe, Japan and North America, most notably Westside Xtreme Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, where he is currently the Progress World Champion in his first reign, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he is currently the PWG World Champion in his first reign.

Professional wrestling career

Westside Xtreme Wrestling (2007–present)

Walter made his Westside Xtreme Wrestling debut on May 4 2007, in a match that also involved Atsushi Aoki, Adam Polak, and Tengkwa. He defeated Zack Sabre Jr. to win the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship on October 2, 2010 in Oberhausen, Germany.[2] He lost the title to Daisuke Sekimoto on January 15 2011, but won it back later that year on May 2 2011, during a Big Japan Pro Wrestling card in Tokyo, Japan. He would then hold the title for 383 days, before losing it to El Generico on May 19, 2012.[3] In the early May 2012 Big van Walter was defeated by Yoshihito Sasaki in a match to crown the inaugural BJW World Strong Heavyweight champion in Yokohama, Japan.[4][5] He won the title for a third time on July 27 2014, defeating Tommy End at Fans Appreciation Night, but lost it to Karsten Beck on January 17, 2015.[6]

Walter and partner Robert Dreissker defeated RockSkillet (Jay Skillet and Jonathan Gresham) to win the wXw World Tag Team Championship at day three of 16 Carat Gold on March 3 2013. They would later lose the titles in Hamburg, Germany to Hot and Spicy (Axel Dieter Jr. and Da Mack).[7] He partnered Zack Sabre Jr. to win the vacant wXw World Tag Team Championship on October 4 2015 in the finals of the 2015 World Tag Team Tournament, but relinquished the title at the wXw Fifteenth Anniversary Show on December 12 2015, losing to Cerebrus (Ilja Dragunov and Robert Dreissker). Walter and Ringkampf stablemate Timothy Thatcher defeated Massive Product (David Starr and Jurn Simmons) to win the wXw World Tag Team Championship in the finals of the 2017 wXw World Tag Team League on October 8 2017.[8] On March 11 Walter and Thatcher lost the wXw Tag Titles to Da Mack and John Klinger.[9]

He is head trainer at the wXw Wrestling Academy.[10]

Progress Wrestling (2015–present)

On May 24, 2015 Walter debuted as Big Daddy Walter in Progress Wrestling at the 2015 Super Strong Style 16 Tournament at the Electric Ballroom in London, losing to Rampage Brown in the first round.[11] The two met again later in 2015 at Chapter 23: What A Time To Be Alive! in a match notable for the ring breaking after Brown was whipped into the corner.[12] He entered the Super Strong Style 16 Tournament again in 2016, reaching the quarter-finals before being eliminated by Chris Hero.[13]

Walter participated in the tournament to determine the inaugural Progress Atlas champion in 2016 but he finished the tournament with 2 points.[14] At Chapter 47, Ringkampf (Walter, Axel Dieter Jr. and Timothy Thatcher) challenged British Strong Style (Pete Dunne, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) for all of their championships, in a six man tag team match, unsuccessfully challenging all of them.[15][16] He defeated Matt Riddle to win the Progress Atlas Championship at Chapter 51: Screaming For Progress at the O2 Academy Birmingham.[17] He lost the title to Riddle a little over a month later on a Progress card in New York City[18], but recaptured it at Chapter 55: Chase The Sun at Alexandra Palace in a Three Way match that also involved Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher.[19] At Chapter 68: Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition 2018, Walter vacated the Atlas title in order to chase the PROGRESS world title, held by Travis Banks. At Chapter 74: Mid Week Matters, he defeated Banks to win the title.

Evolve (2017–present)

Walter debuted in Evolve at Evolve 90 on August 11 2017 in Joppa, Maryland, defending the Progress Atlas Championship against Fred Yehi.[20]

Walter unsuccessfully challenged for the WWN Championship the next night at Evolve 91 in New York City in a Four Way match that also involved Matt Riddle, Keith Lee, and Tracy Williams.[21] He again made an unsuccessful challenge for the WWN Championship on 9 December 2017 when he was defeated by Lee at Evolve 96 in New York City.[22]

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2017–present)

Walter made his Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) debut by entering the 2017 Battle of Los Angeles tournament, where he was eliminated by eventual finalist Keith Lee in the opening round.[23] He was then defeated by Ricochet at All Star Weekend 13 - Night One.[24] The next day, he got his first PWG victory by defeating Zack Sabre Jr. in a match that was awarded a prestigious five-star rating by Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.[25]

In January 2018, Walter unsuccessfully challenged for the PWG World Tag Team Championship with Ringkampf partner Timothy Thatcher, losing to the defending Chosen Bros (Jeff Cobb and Matt Riddle). On April 21, 2018, Walter defeated champion Keith Lee and Jonah Rock in a three-way match to win the PWG World Championship.[26]

Defiant Wrestling (2018–present)

It was announced that Walter was going to be added to the Defiant Internet Championship match of David Starr against Travis Banks at Lights Out. However Banks didn't compete due to a foot injury. Instead Walter would later defeat Starr to become the #1 Contender for Banks' title.[27][28] Which would end in a draw at No Regrets.[29] On June 2 WALTER defeated Banks and Zack Sabre Jr. to win the Defiant Internet Championship.

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ↑ "WALTER: Profile & Match Listing - Internet Wrestling Database (IWD)".
  2. ↑ "wXw (Germany) - Westside Xtreme Wrestling". Wxw-wrestling.com. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
  3. ↑ "wXw Dead End XII". Westside Xtreme Wrestling (in German). Retrieved 2012-07-27.
  4. ↑ 大日本プロレス「Ｅｎｄｌｅｓｓ　Ｓｕｒｖｉｖｏｒ」横浜文化体育館大会. Sports Navi (in Japanese). Yahoo!. May 5, 2012. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ 佐々木義人が初代ストロング王者に. Daily Sports Online (in Japanese). Kobe Shimbun. May 6, 2012. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  6. ↑ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "wXw Back To The Roots XIV". Cagematch.net.
  7. ↑ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "wXw 13th Anniversary Tour: Hamburg « Events Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database". www.cagematch.net. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 "wXw World Tag Team League 2017 Night 3". Westside Xtreme Wrestling (in German). Retrieved 2017-10-08.
  9. ↑ Staff, F4W. "WXW 16 CARAT GOLD NIGHT TWO RESULTS: WORLD TITLE MATCH SURPRISE". F4wonline. Wrestling Observer Newslleter.
  10. ↑ "Trainer - Wrestling Academy - Die Wrestling Schule in Deutschland".
  11. ↑ "RADICAN'S Progress Wrestling: Chapter 19: SSS16: Day 1 report 5/24: Sabre-Gibson, Strong-End, Riots-Regression". pwtorch.com.
  12. ↑ "Natural PROGRESSion: PROGRESS Chapter 23: What A Time To Be Alive!". 411 Mania.
  13. ↑ "RADICAN'S Progress Ch. 30 "SSS16 Finals" Review – Hero vs. End blows everyone away, Overall Reax". pwtorch.com.
  14. ↑ "RADICAN'S REVIEW – Progress 30 "Super Strong Style Day 1" – Hero, Tommy End, Callihan, PROGRESS Tag Title main event; Overall Review". pwtorch.com.
  15. ↑ Boon, Alan (27 April 2017). "The Week In British Wrestling: The reign of BSS continues". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  16. ↑ Bentley, Martin (24 April 2017). "Tyler Bate, Mark Andrews, Pete Dunne, Timothy Thatcher & more: 4/23 Progress Wrestling Chapter 47: Complicated Simplicity report". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  17. 1 2 "7/9 Progress Chapter 51 "Screaming For Progress" results: Gutteridge's report on "British Strong Style" Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate and Trent Seven vs. CCK, Matt Riddle vs. Walter for the Atlas Title, War Machine vs. London Riots, and Jimmy Havoc vs. Jigsaw". Prowrestling.net.
  18. ↑ "Progress-Evolve NYC results: Matt Riddle, Keith Lee, TK Cooper injured". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  19. 1 2 Staff, F4W. "PROGRESS CHAPTER 55 RESULTS: PETE DUNNE VS. TRAVIS BANKS". F4Wonline. Wrestling Newsletter Observer.
  20. ↑ "Csonka's Evolve 90 Review 8.11.17". 411 Mania.
  21. ↑ "Csonka's Evolve 91 Review 8.12.17". 411 Mania.
  22. ↑ "12/9 Evolve 96 results: Keith Lee vs. Walter for the WWN Title, Matt Riddle vs. Fred Yehi, DJZ vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Darby Allin vs. Austin Theory, Catch Point vs. Anthony Henry and James Drake for the Evolve Tag Titles". Prowrestling.net.
  23. ↑ Meltzer, Dave (2017-09-03). "PWG BOLA night two results: The Elite vs. Penta 0M, Rey Fenix & Flamita". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
  24. ↑ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "PWG All Star Weekend 13 - Tag 1". Cagematch.net.
  25. ↑ Meltzer, Dave (2017-12-26). "Dave Meltzer's top-rated matches of 2017: Walter vs. Zack Sabre Jr". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  26. ↑ https://www.cagesideseats.com/indies-independent-wrestling-indy-promotions/2018/4/21/17265438/full-spoilers-from-pwg-all-star-weekend-night-2
  27. ↑ "Defiant Lights Out 2018". Cagematch.net.
  28. ↑ "Defiant Wrestling - WALTER To Debut In Defiant At Lights Out '18". WeAreDefiant.
  29. ↑ "Defiant No Regrets 2018". Cagematch.
  30. ↑ https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=183849
  31. ↑ "Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 for 2018". cagematch.net. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
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