Lamine Yamal was front row for WWE's Smackdown broadcast in Barcelona on Friday night and he was promptly "dunked on" by WWE's World Heavyweight Champion Gunther
16:40, 16 Mar 2025
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Gunther slammed the Barcelona crowd
WWE's World Heavyweight Champions Gunther "dunked on" Lamine Yamal during Smackdown.
The Barcelona wonderkid, 17, was seated on the front row as WWE broadcast live from Spain, when the self-proclaimed "best wrestler in Europe" made his way out to the ring.
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With the show broadcast in Barcelona, WWE wheeled out Gunther, from Austria, to address the crowd. He taunted the crowd: "As the greatest European wrestler of all-time, I just had to be here!
"I have just one regret. I wish we would be in Madrid instead," Gunther was met with a chorus of boos as he started to laugh to himself before adding: "Hala Madrid!"
"Gunther saying Hala Madrid in Barcelona when Lamine Yamal is in the front row is insane lmao," one fan joked. While a second said: "Yamal, Balde and Hector Fort were watching Gunther dunk on Barcelona!"
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Lamine Yamal was sat front row for the quip
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"UEFA must look into this. How can you come to Barcelona and say this in front of Lamine Yamal and Balde," a third posted. While a fourth shared: "Gunther doing the most heel thing possible for a football heavy nation!"
And another added: "Can't believe Lamine Yamal got to witness Gunther vs Axiom live. What a time to be alive...."
Gunther wrestled Axiom - who was WWE's first Spanish-born signing - in a winning effort before his title match with Royal Rumble winner Jey Uso at Wrestlemania.
Before turning his hand to the squared circle, Gunther was a footballer: "I played until I was 16,” he told The Athletic. “My heroes were Austrian goalkeepers like Michael Konsel, Otto Konrad, and Alexander Manninger.
“Football was always part of my life. My mum played and she still coaches kids now. She went through a lot. Her team was an hour outside of Vienna. Apart from the big cities, Austria is a bit of a village — it can be quite conservative in terms of world views.
"So you can guess what it was like for a women’s football team in the mid-1990s. There were lots of comments from the outside. It was a struggle, but she was always very ambitious and tried to keep the team together."
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