Gunther ‘more than up’ for future WWE match against Brock Lesnar

Gunther is “more than up” for a match against Brock Lesnar in the future.

Lesnar is an opponent who Gunther has always wanted to face. A match between them was penciled in for WrestleMania 40 at one point, but all plans for Lesnar were scrapped after he was mentioned (though not identified by name) in Janel Grant’s lawsuit against Vince McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis. It’s unknown when or if Lesnar will ever be back in WWE.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Gunther commented on the reports that he was supposed to face Lesnar at WrestleMania 40. Gunther said he doesn’t know anything about Lesnar’s current situation with WWE, but he’s more than up for the match if it has a chance to happen:

Of course, I heard something about it [rumors he was going to face Lesnar at WrestleMania 40]. I always saw Brock as my final boss. I always get portrayed as that, as the NXT UK Champion, the Intercontinental Champion, I was like the final boss of that division. And Brock, for a long time, was the final boss of the whole company. So I always saw myself in my future to be in a similar position to him, and to be that you’ve got to get in the ring with that guy.

We’ll see if there’s a chance for it to happen again. I’m more than up for it. How the situation is exactly right now, I’m really not that informed about it, to be honest. I think we had that one face-off in the Royal Rumble, the reaction that was there and that was a confirmation for me.

In the 2023 Royal Rumble, Gunther and Lesnar were both entrants and had a face-off. They’ve never wrestled each other outside of that.

Sami Zayn ended up being Gunther’s WrestleMania 40 opponent. Zayn defeated Gunther at the event, ending his historic 666-day reign as Intercontinental Champion.

Gunther is one of the competitors in the 2024 King of the Ring tournament. He’s set to face Jey Uso in a semifinal match on WWE Raw this coming Monday.

At a WrestleMania 40 post-show press conference last month, Paul “Triple H” Levesque was asked about Lesnar WWE status. Levesque claimed that his status “is the same as it’s been before.”

“Right now, Brock is home being Brock,” Levesque said. “And we’ll see where that leads to from here. His status is the same as it’s been before. Brock is not gone from WWE, he’s just home being Brock.”