JBL called Chad Gable the best wrestler in the world after the AAA Noche de los Grandes mask vs. mask match against Ludwig Kaiser, telling Busted Open Radio it was about as good as wrestling gets.
JBL was on commentary for the bout in Monterrey, Mexico last Saturday, where El Grande Americano beat the Original Grande Americano — who then unmasked to reveal himself as Gable.
“I think Chad Gable’s the best wrestler in the world. And I don’t think it’s close. That was absolutely amazing, what he and Kaiser did.”
What impressed him most was the pivot Gable made working heel in Mexico, a world away from his WWE act.
“It’s easy to be kind of a campy heel like he was in WWE with the videos with the Varsity Club or whatever the heck it was. But then all of a sudden to try to get heat down in Mexico, that’s a different level. It’s not even the same business. He had a match down there with La Parka that was just phenomenal.”
JBL was just as high on Kaiser’s prep work.
“Kaiser created all this. Kaiser created all this with learning the language. Not just learning the language, as we used to say in Texas, he wasn’t learning Spanish, he was learning Mexican. The local dialect was what he was learning, which was absolutely amazing, what he’s done.”
And he gave the crowd its due.
“Mexican fans are just passionate fans. They love their lucha libre, and they love their stars, and they get into things, and they enjoy it. And that’s what you saw, them at their very best. And I thought you saw wrestling at its very best. I was absolutely blown away by what they did in the match.”
This isn’t a one-off take from JBL, either. On Something to Wrestle he called the whole Kaiser-Gable storyline “the craziest shit I’ve ever seen in wrestling, ever.” And his “best in the world” line lands right next to Jeff Jarrett’s recent take that Gable should be ready to leave WWE — two veteran voices circling the same wrestler from different angles.
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