Walter (wrestler)
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Walter during Big Japan Pro Wrestling event in 2012
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| Birth name | Walter Hahn |
| Born |
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 |
| 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) is an Austrian professional wrestler and trainer better known by the ring name WALTER (stylized in all capital letters). He has appeared in a number of promotions in Europe, Japan and North America, most notably Westside Xtreme Wrestling and Progress Wrestling.
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. 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. 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. 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.
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). 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. On March 11 Walter and Thatcher lost the wXw Tag Titles to Da Mack and John Klinger.
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