Chad Gable shifts focus to WWE Championship pursuit: ‘The right people now know it’
Chad Gable redefined his trajectory with the critically acclaimed mask vs. mask match against El Grande Americano. He firmly believes that he’s proven he belongs in the conversation for the top prize – the WWE Championship.
Speaking with Brady Jones on The Hot Tag, Gable described his ambitions after cementing his wrestling status with his mask vs. mask match. He expressed his athletic capacity has leveled him to consider a singles title run potentially the WWE Championship.
“So, I think it’s fairly clear to everybody that I’ve been this successful tag team wrestler and almost categorized as that. I have Tag Team Championships on every level. I’ve made it very clear in the past that I’m capable of more than that and I think what the mask vs. mask match did was show the world those weren’t just words. That I’m now backing it up and my intention going forward is to continue to do that and prove that I’m not just gonna want to hold singles championships going forward. That’s a goal, but, to be the guy, to hold the World Championship, to hold the WWE Championship. I’m capable of that. I know it, and I think people now know it and the right people now know it.”
“It’s also on me to continue this momentum to carry it forward. I think we got a great thing going on with me kind of making amends with these characters and demons from my past and my own demons that I’ve gotta rectify and I think people are engaged in this story again. It’s emotional and the stuff with Otis, like whether or not I’m gonna be able to get an apology across to him. It’s resonating, and it’s on me to continue it and keep it going because all too common is you have this one great moment and this great mask vs. mask match that everybody was critically acclaimed, commercially acclaimed but, I’ve never been about the achievement and the end goal.”
“For me, it’s always, like, process-driven, which is great because right now, we are very specifically in a process of me being able to either bridge that gap and become the next-level performer that I’ve always said I wanna be, or I can rest on my laurels and say ‘Hey man, I had this awesome match. Let’s chill out for a little bit but, no thank you.’”
In the interaction, Gable highlighted how El Grande Americano progressed as a favorable character in his absence. And how that took him a step further in being viewed as a well-rounded in-ring performer.
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