Chad Gable was interviewed on “After The Bell with Corey Graves.” Among many topics, Gable revealed that his family did know know until very late that they would be at Raw for Gable’s IC Title match with GUNTHER and that his daughter crying was not something that was planned.
Chad Gable on his match with Gunther on RAW:
“I truly feel at this point that I’m ready for this as a singles guy. I’m done with just being labeled the Tag Team guy. Something in me that has clicked now. I’m ready,and I’m confidently telling you that. So like, here we are now for a singles title and I’m going into this match remembering, I put this on myself, like, I’m the one that gave them my word. I said, ‘I’m ready’, so you better frickin deliver, and if you don’t, they have no reason to believe you in the future. They have no reason to read your pitches anymore. They have no reason to say, ‘Oh, he’s got some good ideas. Let’s give him a chance.’ That’s on you. “
“So going into it, one of my biggest motivating factors was that, and coming out of it was full gratification. It just hammered home the idea and the knowledge in my head that I was right. I knew it because we got the response we did from not only the audience, the WWE Universe, but everyone in the back, man. I can’t tell you the compliments and the very genuine congratulations from everybody that I got and how happy they were for me. For a guy like me that prides himself on work ethic and just kind of like slowly achieving goal after goal, to get that kind of feedback from my peers is to me the most important thing in the world, to know that my peers appreciate it and see the journey is just the world to me.”
Gable on working as a babyface:
“Hunter talked to me about this as well and I’ve had to shift my mindset. Working as a heel for so long got me in a certain mode and a certain type of wrestling, and now as this underdog babyface, I’ve just learned to do less. To get sympathy, you just do less. The people don’t want to see an underdog babyface hitting 10,000 pretty moves and hitting 10,000 fancy dives and flips and suplexes all the time, so you’ll notice I think over the last couple of months as I’ve transitioned into this, it’s just like doing a lot less, but doing it in very specific spots.”
On his family being in the audience at RAW for his match against Gunther:
“They didn’t even know they were coming. They had no idea. So then they found out about it and then they wanted to take advantage of this a little bit and film me during the day with my family a little bit. They showed us showing up. But I mean, none of that was privy to them earlier in the week, anything. I really wasn’t even aware of where they were sitting until like minutes before when my wife had sent me a picture. So it’s like, well, I’ll go see my little dude up front because he’s wearing that mostly to get his singlet on TV because now he makes me make him a frickin singlet every time I get one made. Even if you wanted to try to force some kind of emotion like that out of a kid, that stuff’s real. So like, my oldest daughter is by far my most emotional. Like, they all have different personalities, but she’s the one that the world saw crying that night and she knows the deal. Like, I’ve spoken to her about what Daddy does and how it works and all this stuff. She knows, but even that doesn’t matter. When you get there and your kid is sitting in front of you watching their dad get beat up, it’s gonna draw it out of them. She’s emotional like that. My middle daughter, forget it. She could care less. I think she was looking down to see how many chips and cheese she had left and her nachos. The dude is enthralled with it too, but the emotion from my oldest daughter is like, I think, it touches on something we don’t get often anymore. So when it happens naturally and organically, it just means so much more because we get stuff a lot of times where there’s people in the crowd that we cut to or wherever. We use audience members or family members in a way that we meant for it. We’re making it a part of the show. This was not planned. None of it was meant to be a part of anything and that’s what made it organic and really, really got everybody I think.”
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