WWE legend Michael Cole breaks character for Gunther: “Best on the planet”

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Michael Cole has a history with Gunther in WWE. After The Ring General lost the WWE World Heavyweight Championship by tapping out to Jey Uso, Cole got in the bad books of the Austrian when he highlighted the loss on an edition of RAW last year. This led to the former Imperium leader assaulting the legendary commentator.

Since then, Cole has been taking shots at Gunther on commentary. However, he recently broke his character for The Ring General.

Michael Cole broke character for Gunther

During a recent interview on The Sal Licata Show, the host asked Michael Cole to name the best wrestling match he has ever seen. The RAW commentator initially said that he didn’t want to name a particular match as it wouldn’t do justice to all the other great matches he has witnessed in his career.

Cole then mentioned that he gets goosebumps while calling Gunther’s matches and believes he is the best professional wrestler in the world at the moment.

“Let me answer it this way. There is a gentleman in this business right now who, every time he wrestles a match, I get goosebumps. I love to call the match. I believe he is the best professional wrestler on the planet today, and that is GUNTHER. There’s such a mix on him. Either people hate him, or they love him. He is such an old-school throwback,” he said.

The WWE legend added that he believes The Ring General’s in-ring style is a different way to “express” wrestling, and he loves that about the former World Heavyweight Champion.

“When you think back to the Brunos and the Ivan Putskis and the Superstar Billy Grahams, and some of these all-time greats, GUNTHER, who we call the Career Ki**er now because he’s ended the career of Goldberg, [John] Cena, and AJ Styles, he is an artist. He is incredible to watch in the ring. It is such a different way to express our business, the way that he does it. So GUNTHER right now, to me, best on the planet, love calling his matches,” he added.

Check out the full interview below:

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