Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful reported.<\/a><\/p>\nAdditional details about the arrest were not immediately known.<\/p>\n
The Post has reached out to the WWE and the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Orlando is home to the WWE Performance Center.<\/p>\n
Barthel, who also competes under the luchador moniker El Grande Americano, is expected to face off against the \u201cOriginal\u201d El Grande Americano Chad Gable in a mask vs mask match on May 30.<\/p>\n
Barthel, known as Ludwig Kaiser, speaks to the crowd during WWE Friday Night SmackDown in Berlin, Germany, on Aug. 30, 2024. WWE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
El Grande Americano faces off against Original El Grande Americano during Monday Night RAW in Cleveland, Ohio, on Feb. 9, 2026. WWE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The highly anticipated match, which has been months in the making, is scheduled to serve as the main event of AAA Lucha Libre\u2019s\u00a0\u201cNoche de los Grande\u201d in Monterrey, Mexico.<\/p>\n
In April 2025, WWE announced it had acquired the lucha libre promotion. <\/p>\n
Barthel took over as El Grande Americano in June 2025 after Gable suffered a rotator cuff injury, which sidelined him for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n
He appeared on the most recent episode of Monday Night Raw at the First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, NC, on May 18, competing in a Trios Tornado match alongside Los Americanos, where they defeated Gable\u2019s \u201cOriginal\u201d El Grande Americano and Los Americanos Hermanos.<\/p>\n
He signed with the WWE after he \u201cestablished himself as one of the German independent wrestling scene\u2019s brightest prospects,\u201d according to his profile on the promotion\u2019s website. <\/p>\n
\u201cKaiser has since proven to be a true mat magician, as well as a no-nonsense competitor,\u201d the profile. reads. \u201cWith the posture of a steel pole and a facial expression that rarely deviates from the stern setting, Kaiser\u00a0is practically unflappable \u2014 though on the rare occasion that he does lose his cool, he\u2019s quick to let his opponents know by defiantly screaming \u201cnein\u201d in their face.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE superstar Ludwig Kaiser was arrested in Florida just a week before his highly anticipated main event bout.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26644,8308,88,2808,99,28592,4366],"class_list":["post-656450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arrests","tag-battery","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-sports","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}