Former Germany international goalkeeper Tim Wiese made a winning start to his career as a professional wrestler after claiming victory on his WWE debut.
Wiese, who was capped six times by Germany, joined forces __with Cesaro and Sheamus to defeat the team of The Shining Stars and Bo Dallas in Munich on Thursday.
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The 34-year-old, under his alias of "The Machine", secured the win by pinfall after performing his signature move, a body splash.
Wiese, whose former clubs include Hoffenheim, Werder Bremen and Kaiserslautern, hung up his gloves in 2014 in order to chase his new dream of becoming a professional wrestler.
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He began training at the WWE performance Centre in Orlando, Florida in June after receiving a personal invitation from Paul "Triple H" Levesque, the WWE's executive vice president of talent.
But Thursday night's dust-up at the Olympic Hall was not the first time 6ft 4in Wiese had stepped into a WWE ring.
In September 2014, Wiese appeared as a guest timekeeper at a WWE event in Frankfurt and secured immediate fan approval after interjecting himself into a match.
Wiese was subsequently invited to a one-day workout at the WWE Performance Centre, where he impressed the facility's trainers and WWE executives, including Levesque.