Olympic Gold medalist Gable Steveson was supposed to already be on the WWE main roster by now, but that obviously hasn’t happened. He was drafted to Raw in October 2021 through the WWE Draft and made a cameo appearance at WrestleMania 38. He was also seen as part of Kurt Angle’s birthday celebration in December
WWE’s plans for him were delayed as he underwent a heart procedure. Steveson’s brother Bobby wrestles as Damon Kemp on NXT.
He confirmed last month that he would be returning to amateur competition ahead of an appearance at the upcoming US Open.
Triple H confirmed in past interviews that before he had a health scare that forced him into retirement from wrestling, he wanted to work with Steveson at WrestleMania 38 and even pitched the idea to Vince McMahon.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer recapped everything that is going on with Steveson and gave a little bit more detail about what WWE had planned for him.
“The original idea was he was gonna do college wrestling that season, which he did, and they were gonna bring him to a couple of Raws during the year. He wasn’t gonna wrestle, but he was gonna make appearances to build up his debut which was gonna be at WrestleMania. And yeah, never appeared, still hasn’t appeared…..He’d retired after winning the Olympic gold medal, actually after winning the NCAA Championship last year because he came back from the Olympics to win the NCAA Championship. Then he retired and he was gonna go into WWE and all that.
“Obviously that has not materialized. He did have the surgery to repair the Wolff’s Heart (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome), but his progress has not… he hasn’t lit the world on fire by any means and they haven’t put him on for that very reason. In January of 2022, over a year ago, I remember being told Gable Steveson is going to be fast-tracked to the main roster right after the college season is over and Bron Breakker was going to be called up pretty soon as well, which also didn’t happen,” Meltzer stated.
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