Chad Gable Reveals His Injury Changed the Direction of El Grande Americano Storyline

Chad Gable’s injury could have stopped the El Grande Americano storyline cold, but instead, it helped send the whole thing in a direction nobody saw coming.

While speaking to Good Karma Wrestling, Gable admitted he never expected the El Grande Americano idea to become this big. He said wrestling is unpredictable, and his injury ended up being one of the major twists that changed the entire path of the story.

“Not a chance. You know, no way. I mean, that’s one of the best things, I think, about wrestling, right? You just never know. You never know what it is that’s going to land, what it is that the audience is going to latch onto, or why, really.”

Gable said the storyline only reached this point because of several unexpected variables, and fans still do not know the full story behind all of them. Then he pointed directly to his injury as one of the biggest reasons the story changed course.

“And when you really think about the path that we had to go on to get to that point, it would have never happened if it weren’t for so many different variables there. Someday, I think everyone will become privy to how many there actually were. There’s a lot more than people even know about. But something as obvious as my injury, right, and me having to go away — if I hadn’t gotten injured, none of this would have ever taken the route that it did. It changed the direction.”

Instead of only seeing the injury as a setback, Gable Gable said it helped create that weird wrestling magic where things end up better than anyone planned.

“And it’s just magic, man. That’s what wrestling is. That’s part of what makes it so special. The story isn’t written from the beginning. The ending isn’t determined from the beginning. We can go a million different directions, and sometimes it creates magic.”

That makes the whole El Grande Americano run even crazier, especially after Gable’s bloody Mask vs. Mask match against Ludwig Kaiser at AAA Noche de Los Grandes. Kaiser’s El Grande Americano beat Gable’s Original El Grande Americano, forcing Gable to unmask in front of the crowd.

JBL later praised the match hard and even called Gable the best wrestler in the world after seeing what he and Kaiser pulled off in Mexico. So, Gable did not expect El Grande Americano to become this big. But sometimes wrestling takes a bad break, twists it into something totally different, and somehow turns it into one of the most talked-about stories of the year.

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