History Wrestling / AmericanAlpha

American Alpha was a {{professional wrestling}} tag team consisting of amateur-turned-professional wrestlers Wrestling/JasonJordan (born Nathan Everhart on September 28, 1988 in Tinley Park, Illinois) and Chad Gable (born Charles "Chas" Betts on March 8, 1986 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), both working for Wrestling/{{WWE}} under its developmental brand [[Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}} NXT]] before being drafted to ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown Live]]''.

In May, fresh off walking out on his unsuccessful tag team with Tye Dillinger, Jordan was looking for a new tag team partner when Gable decided to show up and try to convince him that they could work well as a team. Jordan brushed him off and went through a series of other partners for the next two months, only to finally accept Gable after exhausting all other options. Instantly, they found chemistry. Their impressive athletic talent and wrestling aptitude came through from their debut match and only continued growing from there, and though they began their run together as nominal heels, the crowd warmed up to them enough that they began to be used as faces after their showing at October's [=NXT TakeOver: Respect=], where they made it to the semi-finals of the ''Wrestling/DustyRhodes Tag Team Classic'' tournament before losing in a resilient effort to the much larger heel team of Baron Corbin and Wrestling/{{Rhyno}}.

They continued climbing up the ranks of NXT's tag team division, and by January 2016 began using the team name of American Alpha, defeating several former NXT championship teams such as Blake and Murphy, The Vaudevillains, and Wrestling/TheAscension. In the match that kicked off Wrestling/WrestleMania weekend, Gable and Jordan opened [=NXT TakeOver: Dallas=] by beating Wrestling/TheRevival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) to capture their first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-nxt-t.html NXT Tag Team Championship]], before losing the titles back to the Revival 68 days later at [=NXT TakeOver: The End=]. As a result of the 2016 WWE Draft on July 19, the team was drafted to the ''[=SmackDown=]'' brand, where they defeated Wrestling/TheWyattFamily (Wrestling/LukeHarper and Wrestling/RandyOrton), in a match that also included Wrestling/HeathSlater and Rhyno and Wrestling/TheUsos, to capture the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-sd-t.html WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship]] on December 27, 2016. They dropped the titles to the Usos on March 21, 2017.

* SaltAndPepper: Jordan has a more hot-headed personality, while Gable is more efficient, joyful, and relaxed.

For more on American Alpha's careers, visit [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Alpha here]]. Also, see more on Jordan [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Jordan here]], and more on Gable [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Gable here]].

* RealityEnsues: After Tye Dillinger refused to tag him in not once, but three times during a match, Jordan got pissed off [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and left Dillinger to get hammered]] by the Lucha Dragons. See below -- no, see ''this whole page'' for the result.

* StalkerWithACrush: Some have seen Gable's aforementioned pursuit of Jordan as this.

* AlliterativeName: American Alpha, as well as Jason Jordan himself. When he's in a good mood, Jordan outright tells people to call him JJ.
** Jordan's Twitter handle also adds to the alliteration (@[=JasonJordanJJ=]).

American Alpha was a {{professional wrestling}} tag team consisting of amateur-turned-professional wrestlers Jason Jordan (born Nathan Everhart on September 28, 1988 in Tinley Park, Illinois) and Chad Gable (born Charles "Chas" Betts on March 8, 1986 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), both working for Wrestling/{{WWE}} under its developmental brand [[Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}} NXT]] before being drafted to ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown Live]]''.

On July 17, 2017, Jason Jordan was revealed to be the [[KayFabe illegitimate son]] of Wrestling/KurtAngle, thereby disbanding American Alpha. The two continued to support each other, though.