The dark match after between Trick Williams and Gunther at Monday’s WWE Raw went off the air from the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, saw Gunther lose by pinfall to Williams.
Fan footage shows Williams hitting Gunther with a spin kick to get the clean win.
Gunther’s loss comes after a report earlier on Monday that a match between Gunther and Finn Balor was ultimately dropped from Crown Jewel’s lineup because he (Gunther) decided against traveling to Saudi Arabia. It was also noted Balor had reservations about making the trip, though the belief internally is he would have traveled had Gunther agreed to participate.
Dave Meltzer discussed Gunther’s loss during the most recent episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, noting that never, until Monday night, has Gunther ever lost a dark match, a singles dark match, by anything other than a disqualification.
“Gunther lost to Trick Williams tonight. Spin kick, Book End, one, two, three. But it’s possible this is all coincidental. Because in a dark match, the babyface does go over. That’s the rule. Usually with a guy at the level of Gunther, they’ll do a run in and DQ, because they protect the top guys in these type of matches. So there’s probably something to this.”
“Well, to the best of my knowledge, Gunther has never, until tonight, lost a dark match, a singles dark match, by anything other than DQ. And he has only lost one house show in his entire career on the main roster.”
“So I would say that one way or the other, this is unusual, that he would lose his dark match clean to Trick Williams.”
