Chad Gable Reveals Who Came Up With WWE’s El Grande Americano Gimmick
WWE Intercontinental Champion Chad Gable has revealed that he was the person behind the El Grande Americano gimmick.
Over the past year, El Grande Americano has become a major name in AAA. He originally portrayed the masked character, but after suffering an injury, Ludwig Kaiser took over the gimmick and continued using it.
Gable eventually returned as El Grande Americano and entered a Mask vs. Mask match against the wrestler who had taken over the character. Gable lost the bout and was forced to give up the mask.
Since then, he has attempted to make amends with several luchadors he previously disrespected. However, according to Gable, the entire idea of El Grande Americano started with him.
WWE star Chad Gable says El Grande Americano was his idea
During a recent interview with WittyWhittier, Chad Gable revealed that he came up with the El Grande Americano gimmick himself. “Funny how this business works, wrestling itself, you never know what’s going to work out, what’s not going to work out, what’s going to surprise us, and what people are going to really latch on to. I think that’s been the story of the last year and a half or two years.”
He revealed that his original plan was simply to add more to the story he was already involved in with the luchadors. “The El Grande Americano thing started just as me wanting to put more into a story that I was already involved with these luchadors, and I wanted to take it to another level. This was my idea of donning this mask and my way to try to elevate this story, not knowing where it was going to take me career-wise.”
WWE star Chad Gable says his shoulder injury changed everything
He explained that his absence ultimately created an unexpected opportunity for the character. “You never really can predict stuff like that. Then on top of that, the injuries. For those that don’t know, I had a shoulder surgery, rotator cuff was torn, bicep tendon, all kinds of stuff that I had to have repaired, that forced me to go away. Again, it’s circumstantial. Who knows where we’d be right now if all of these elements had not just turned out the way they did.”
“Somebody else took over the El Grande Americano gimmick, and they were doing it while I was hurt. I come back. Now we’ve got a built-in story there. It is like you said, a bit of an odyssey and a journey we had to go through. I would call it valleys and peaks and lows and things like that to get here. But now, where I’m at, it’s almost like, man, I couldn’t have written it any better than it turned out.” [H/T: Fightful]
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