{"id":11154,"date":"2017-12-23T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T22:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T22:05:48","slug":"ringkampf-reunion-wxw-two-nxt-superstars-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/12\/23\/ringkampf-reunion-wxw-two-nxt-superstars-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"RINGKAMPF Reunion in wXw as Two NXT Superstars Appear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprise reunion of one of Germany&#8217;s top factions of the past few years occurred at today&#8217;s <em><strong>wXw 17th Anniversary<\/strong><\/em> show, following <strong>RINGKAMPF<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>WALTER<\/strong> and <strong>Timothy Thatcher<\/strong>&#8216;s wXw Tag Team title defense at today&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/wXwGermany\/status\/944623079036252160<\/p>\n<p>Following the match, the duo were met by the surprise appearance of a former RINGKAMPF member and foe who have since left Germany to be a part of the WWE Universe. After their victory, they were joined in the ring by former RINGKAMPF member <strong>Axel Dieter Jr.<\/strong> (who know competes in NXT <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/11\/09\/new-faction-debuts-nxt-live-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Live Events under his real name Marcel Barthel<\/a>) and former NXT Tag Team Champion <strong>Alexander Wolfe<\/strong> (who competed in wXw as Axel Tischer).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReallyVanni\/status\/944622124626477057<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just wow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wXw17thAnni?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#wXw17thAnni<\/a> @TheWWEWolfe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZtDfvHXz7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZtDfvHXz7o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lukas (@TheReal1ffs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheReal1ffs\/status\/944625951769493504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both men had huge careers in wXw before joining the WWE, beginning with Alexander Wolfe and his 2009 through 2015 run as <strong>Axel Tischer<\/strong>. In 2012, he pinned <strong>El Generico<\/strong> (Sami Zayn) to become the wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion, holding it for 293 days before losing it to <strong>Tommy End<\/strong> (Aleister Black). He&#8217;s also a former wXw Shotgun Champion. He joined NXT in 2015 and has since become a vital part of <strong>SAnitY<\/strong> (and their potential MVP of <em><strong>War Games<\/strong><\/em>), where he&#8217;s a former NXT Tag Team Champion. He also had runs with the <em><strong>German Wrestling Federation (GWF)<\/strong> <\/em>as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11159\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11159\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/axel-tischer-axel-tischer-5-1424011060-e1514066081707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"600\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: GFW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Axel Dieter Jr. was RINGKAMPF&#8217;s leader of sorts, leading the charge and oft teaming with WALTER until he joined NXT earlier this year. Like Wolfe, he too is a former wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion, defeating <strong>Marty Scurll<\/strong> last year and losing to\u00a0<strong>Jurn Simmons<\/strong> this year shortly before his departure to Orlando. Prior to his RINGKAMF run, he was a 2x wXw Tag Team champion as part of <strong>Hot And Spicy<\/strong> with former WWE Cruiserweight Classic competitor <strong>Da Mack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11160\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11160\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/05876084428bea8843b0f486b797f0cf-dieter-big-daddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/05876084428bea8843b0f486b797f0cf-dieter-big-daddy.jpg 474w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/05876084428bea8843b0f486b797f0cf-dieter-big-daddy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/05876084428bea8843b0f486b797f0cf-dieter-big-daddy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/05876084428bea8843b0f486b797f0cf-dieter-big-daddy-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WALTER with Axel Dieter Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The two appearances continue a trend of the WWE allowing some of their talent return for matches and\/or appearances with former stomping grounds, such as the recent announcements of <strong>Oney Lorcan<\/strong> to <strong>Beyond Wrestling<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/12\/16\/apollo-crews-preston-city-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Apollo Crews<\/strong> to <strong>Preston City Wrestling (PCW)<\/strong><\/a> in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprise reunion of one of Germany&#8217;s top factions of the past few years occurred at today&#8217;s wXw 17th Anniversary show, following RINGKAMPF&#8216;s WALTER and Timothy Thatcher&#8216;s wXw Tag Team title defense at today&#8217;s show. https:\/\/twitter.com\/wXwGermany\/status\/944623079036252160 Following the match, the duo were met by the surprise appearance of a former RINGKAMPF member and foe who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":11161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,22],"tags":[1876,1877,932,1248,1590,1194,1249],"class_list":["post-11154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-wxw","tag-17th-anniversary","tag-alexander-wolfe","tag-axel-dieter-jr","tag-walter","tag-ringkampf","tag-timothy-thatcher","tag-wxw"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}