Gable Steveson comments on his status with WWE.
Steveson signed with WWE in September 2021 through the NIL program and was drafted to WWE Raw in the 2021 WWE Draft. He made an appearance at WrestleMania 38, getting involved in a physical confrontation with Chad Gable.
In October 2022, Steveson said he was training at the WWE Performance Center after stepping away to undergo an ablation to treat Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Speaking to Damon Martin of MMAFighting, Steveson discussed his current WWE status.
“I’m pretty close to debuting and being on-screen,” Steveson said. “I’m just waiting for that call and waiting for that time. Some days it’s stressful because I never know when it will come and I’m used to amateur wrestling where it’s like, ‘Hey, we have the Olympics in three months or we have the Olympic trials in two months, be ready for it.’ Right now, you’re going through the motions with no goal, and I wish I could have that goal in sight and put forth and give people real answers when I’m debuting, but it will be coming really, really soon. And when I mean really, really soon, probably after [WrestleMania] or just a little bit after that. I think being able to understand that this game is different and it’s a process and I’m going to follow the process the right way and just keep moving forward. I’m young and I’m hungry. I want to be the best in everything I can possibly be. Step one is WWE and go out there and be the most physical, athletic, and dominant wrestler since probably Brock Lesnar, maybe even more than that.”
Steveson won an Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 2020 Olympics.
He hopes to return to the Olympics in 2024.
“I know the Olympics is next year and I hope to be a part of that and keep moving forward and keep winning big titles for the USA also. I would love a second run,” he said. “I feel I have a lot more left in the tank to showcase. I want to prove USA right and keep moving forward overall and become one of the best American amateur wrestlers ever, and I hope I can achieve the Bruce Baumgartner status of having a bunch of medals and having the accolades to show and be a part of WWE and be an entertainer, too.”
It is unknown when Steveson will officially make his in-ring WWE debut.
He appeared alongside Kurt Angle for Angle's birthday bash on the December 9 episode of WWE SmackDown.
