Chad Gable recently spoke with Men’s Journal about American Alpha’s main roster debut. Here are the highlights.
On WrestleMania dream matches:
As far as the roster goes, there are so many teams —Gallows & Anderson, the Usos — there are just endless teams we want to wrestle. With the current landscape, I think the tag team division is going to blow up…We want to make tag team wrestling the thing to watch again and we are going be the ones to do it. Nobody else. We hope that lights a fire under some guys, and if it ruffles a few feathers, we’re okay with that. We want to raise the level of competition. If everyone starts to be competitive with each other and wants to one-up each other every single night, sparks are going to fly and it’s going to be magic before you know it.
On if there’s more pressure: the Olympics, or being on TV each week?
Well, I’m still figuring that out, because this week was the first week going live. Stress is the word to describe it because you have to hit your time, get in, and do what’s asked of you, because if you mess up on live TV, there’s no taking that back. The biggest stress on me in my amateur career was making the Olympic team. The Olympics itself was more like a reward for the hard work I put in for 20 years. I remember that day in April 2012 when I won the trials, it was like this weight had been lifted off my shoulders. The buildup to that was the most stressful period of my life. This live TV stuff on SmackDown is like a whole different type of stress, but for me it is a little more exciting. I’m embracing it a little more than I would have in amateur wrestling.
Gable also talked about American Alpha’s main roster debut and more. You can read the entire interview here.
