Overview
- Court records show a pre‑trial conference was held Thursday and attorneys entered a waiver of a speedy trial with a second pre‑trial set for August 27 before Judge Andrew L. Cameron.
- Barthel, who wrestles as Ludwig Kaiser and as El Grande Americano in Mexico, was arrested in May on a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from an April elevator dispute in Orlando.
- The defense has filed a motion to dismiss that says Barthel pushed the accuser only after the man approached aggressively and allegedly threatened to call ICE on Barthel’s Mexican girlfriend.
- The alleged victim says Barthel attacked him after he asked the couple to stop public displays of affection, and police reports described visible injuries consistent with a scuffle.
- A subpoena for surveillance camera footage from outside the 12th‑floor elevator is now part of discovery and could determine whether the case is dropped or moves to trial while Barthel continues to travel to Mexico for work.