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In 2023, Otis managed to recruit Maxxine Dupri to Alpha Academy, with Akira Tozawa joining later that year. During this time, Gable entered a feud with the Intercontinental Champion [[Wrestling/{{WALTER}} Gunther]] and his stable the Imperium, facing off against the Ring General for the title several times, but without any success. However, when his friend Wrestling/SamiZayn earned a chance to face Gunther at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XL'' for the title, he asked Gable to become his coach, with the result being Zayn winning the title. However, during an episode of Raw a week after ''[=WrestleMania=]'' in Montreal, Zayn and Gable would face each other for the title, with Zayn successfully retaining. After the match, however, after praising his opponent, Gable attacked Zayn in front of his family, turning heel in the process.
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In 2023, Otis managed to recruit Maxxine Dupri to Alpha Academy, with Akira Tozawa joining later that year. During this time, Gable entered a feud with the Intercontinental Champion [[Wrestling/{{WALTER}} [[Wrestling/{{Walter}} Gunther]] and his stable the Imperium, facing off against the Ring General for the title several times, but without any success. However, when his friend Wrestling/SamiZayn earned a chance to face Gunther at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XL'' for the title, he asked Gable to become his coach, with the result being Zayn winning the title. However, during an episode of Raw a week after ''[=WrestleMania=]'' in Montreal, Zayn and Gable would face each other for the title, with Zayn successfully retaining. After the match, however, after praising his opponent, Gable attacked Zayn in front of his family, turning heel in the process.
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** Gable is seemingly a composite of Kurt Angle and one of his former understudies. Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him.
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** Gable is seemingly a composite of Kurt Angle and Charlie Haas, one of his former understudies. Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him.him, and like Haas, he's an accomplished technician in the ring.
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** Both are seemingly composites of Kurt Angle and one of his former understudies, making it all the more fitting that their first taste of true success in WWE has come with teaming together:
*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.
*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons. And he even got to team up with Shelton.
*** These similarities were {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one promo where Jordan almost called the two of them "The World's Greatest Tag Team" before Gable cut him off and asked him to stop, presumably out of respect for the original team. Even without the lampshade, not only have fans noticed this to the point of chanting their names to the candence of Angle's former WWE theme song, but Angle himself has stated in interviews during and after his Wrestling/{{TNA}} farewell tour that he'd like to return to WWE specifically to help mentor and elevate them.
*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.
*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons. And he even got to team up with Shelton.
*** These similarities were {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one promo where Jordan almost called the two of them "The World's Greatest Tag Team" before Gable cut him off and asked him to stop, presumably out of respect for the original team. Even without the lampshade, not only have fans noticed this to the point of chanting their names to the candence of Angle's former WWE theme song, but Angle himself has stated in interviews during and after his Wrestling/{{TNA}} farewell tour that he'd like to return to WWE specifically to help mentor and elevate them.
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** Both are Gable is seemingly composites a composite of Kurt Angle and one of his former understudies, making it all the more fitting that their first taste of true success in WWE has come with teaming together:
*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.
***understudies. Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons. And he even got to team up with Shelton.
*** These similarities were {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one promo where Jordan almost called the two of them "The World's Greatest Tag Team" before Gable cut him off and asked him to stop, presumably out of respect for the original team. Even without the lampshade, not only have fans noticed this to the point of chanting their names to the candence of Angle's former WWE theme song, but Angle himself has stated in interviews during and after his Wrestling/{{TNA}} farewell tour that he'd like to return to WWE specifically to help mentor and elevate them.him.
*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.
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*** These similarities were {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one promo where Jordan almost called the two of them "The World's Greatest Tag Team" before Gable cut him off and asked him to stop, presumably out of respect for the original team. Even without the lampshade, not only have fans noticed this to the point of chanting their names to the candence of Angle's former WWE theme song, but Angle himself has stated in interviews during and after his Wrestling/{{TNA}} farewell tour that he'd like to return to WWE specifically to help mentor and elevate them.
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*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. [[spoiler:And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.]]
*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons. spoiler:And he even got to team up with Shelton.
*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons. spoiler:And he even got to team up with Shelton.
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*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. [[spoiler:And And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.]]
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*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons.spoiler:And And he even got to team up with Shelton.
*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Ah-thank you!]]
Charles Edward "Chas" Betts (born March 8, 1986) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and former amateur wrestler who is signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}} under the ring name Chad Gable.
His career started in amateur wrestling, where he was the 2004 Minnesota high school state champion and managed to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he passed through the qualification round, but was eliminated pretty early. He signed a developmental contract with WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand, making his debut in September 2014. At the beginning of the next year, he entered a storyline with a fellow wrestler Wrestling/JasonJordan, trying to convince him to become a tag team. As the result, Wrestling/AmericanAlpha was born, with the duo capturing the NXT Tag Team Championships before being drafted to ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' and winning the [=SmackDown=] Tag Team Championship. In 2017, American Alpha disbanded after Jordan debuted on the ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' brand as the ({{kayfabe}}) son of Raw General Manager Wrestling/KurtAngle, while Gable remained on ''[=SmackDown=]'' and teamed up with Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, however, this partnership was less fruitful than Gable's previous one, with Gable being drafted to Raw the next year and forming yet another team with Wrestling/BobbyRoode, winning the Raw Tag Team Championship.
During the 2019 Superstar Shake-up, Gable was drafted to Smackdown, ending his team with Roode, and entered a feud with Wrestling/BaronCorbin, who managed to convince the announcers to shorten his name to "Shorty Gable" and eventually "Shorty G". This name change lasted for about a year, until he declared he's had enough of being Shorty G and took the name "Chad Gable" back. A few weeks later he opened a wrestling training school "Alpha Academy", taking on Otis as his first trainee. In 2021, Gable and Otis were drafted to Raw, where they managed to capture Raw Tag Team Championships in a match against [[Wrestling/RandyOrton RK]]-[[Wrestling/MattRiddle Bro]], dropping them back after 8 weeks.
In 2023, Otis managed to recruit Maxxine Dupri to Alpha Academy, with Akira Tozawa joining later that year. During this time, Gable entered a feud with the Intercontinental Champion [[Wrestling/{{WALTER}} Gunther]] and his stable the Imperium, facing off against the Ring General for the title several times, but without any success. However, when his friend Wrestling/SamiZayn earned a chance to face Gunther at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XL'' for the title, he asked Gable to become his coach, with the result being Zayn winning the title. However, during an episode of Raw a week after ''[=WrestleMania=]'' in Montreal, Zayn and Gable would face each other for the title, with Zayn successfully retaining. After the match, however, after praising his opponent, Gable attacked Zayn in front of his family, turning heel in the process.
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!!Shoosh! Chad Gable's Tropes:
* AlwaysSecondBest: The crux of his FaceHeelTurn in 2024. After failing to beat [[Wrestling/{{WALTER}} Gunther]] for the Intercontinental Championship made Gable sink into despair, while his friend Wrestling/SamiZayn gained the opportunity to fight the Ring General at ''[=WrestleMania=] XL'' and asked Gable to train him. All the effort paid off, with Zayn winning the title, but a week after Gable failed to capture it and turned against Sami, attacking him in front of his family in an attempt to turn his fortunes around.
* BadassNative: He's a registered member of the Comanche Nation.
* BadassTeacher: His gimmick as the leader of Alpha Academy revolves around him helping his trainees improve their in-ring skills.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Much like Kurt Angle, Gable hides his monstrous wrestling skills under a goofy persona, unleashing it only when the bell rings.
* CaptainErsatz: American Alpha appeared to be a two-man love letter to Wrestling/KurtAngle, with Gable representing the younger Angle from the Wrestling/AttitudeEra--the dorky arrogant guy who's also somehow endearing or funny and yet still dangerous because he can out-grapple anyone at will, while his FaceHeelTurn in 2024 having shades of Angle's "Wrestling Machine" run in Wrestling/{{TNA}}. Bonus points for American Alpha also carrying similarities to [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam a certain team of former Angle protégés]], covered below.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Both are seemingly composites of Kurt Angle and one of his former understudies, making it all the more fitting that their first taste of true success in WWE has come with teaming together:
*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. [[spoiler:And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.]]
*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons. spoiler:And he even got to team up with Shelton.
*** These similarities were {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one promo where Jordan almost called the two of them "The World's Greatest Tag Team" before Gable cut him off and asked him to stop, presumably out of respect for the original team. Even without the lampshade, not only have fans noticed this to the point of chanting their names to the candence of Angle's former WWE theme song, but Angle himself has stated in interviews during and after his Wrestling/{{TNA}} farewell tour that he'd like to return to WWE specifically to help mentor and elevate them.
** Outside the Angle-related comparisons, Gable's masterful mat technique, charming balance of nerdiness and badassery, and ability to be dangerous despite his diminutive size has also drawn comparisons to Wrestling/BryanDanielson especially in his WWE run.
* FaceHeelTurn:
** During his run with Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, he started to use more villainous tactics, later confirming the turn by accusing [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] of being biased against them.
** His attack on Wrestling/SamiZayn in front of his family after the unsuccessful attempt to win the Intercontinental Championship made Sami's hometown crowd turn against him quickly.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Yes, Gable worked alongside Jordan as {{heel}}s early on. However, fans loved them too much to boo them, and so they became cemented as {{face}}s through their gutsy performance in defeat against Baron Corbin and Rhyno in the semi-finals of the ''Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic'' tournament.
** During his storyline with Otis, after the two started receiving positive reactions while being crafty heels, they started to become more honorable in the ring, officially cementing themselves as the good guys.
* PowerStable: Alpha Academy
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Gable stands at only 5'7, but grapples and tosses around larger foes with ease. It's routinely noted, in fact, how unusually strong he is for being one of the smallest[[labelnote:*]]non-full-time cruiserweight[[/labelnote]] guys on the roster, being able to deadlift such powerhouses as Ivar and Wrestling/BraunStrowman.
* ShoutOut: Gable's name is one to Dan Gable, the longtime head coach of the legendary Iowa Hawkeyes collegiate amateur wrestling team. Dan approves of this; he's done a short video with the "Ready, Willing and Gable" towel, and the two Gables have both been scheduled for an appearance together at an Iowa wrestling event in July 2017.
* SuplexFinisher: Oh yes. His primary finisher is ''Chaos Theory'', an O'Connor roll transitioned into a bridging German suplex.
* TagTeam:
** Wrestling/AmericanAlpha with Jason Jordan on NXT and [=SmackDown=].
** With Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin on Raw.
** With Wrestling/BobbyRoode on Raw.
[[caption-width-right:350:Ah-thank you!]]
Charles Edward "Chas" Betts (born March 8, 1986) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and former amateur wrestler who is signed to Wrestling/{{WWE}} under the ring name Chad Gable.
His career started in amateur wrestling, where he was the 2004 Minnesota high school state champion and managed to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he passed through the qualification round, but was eliminated pretty early. He signed a developmental contract with WWE's [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] brand, making his debut in September 2014. At the beginning of the next year, he entered a storyline with a fellow wrestler Wrestling/JasonJordan, trying to convince him to become a tag team. As the result, Wrestling/AmericanAlpha was born, with the duo capturing the NXT Tag Team Championships before being drafted to ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' and winning the [=SmackDown=] Tag Team Championship. In 2017, American Alpha disbanded after Jordan debuted on the ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' brand as the ({{kayfabe}}) son of Raw General Manager Wrestling/KurtAngle, while Gable remained on ''[=SmackDown=]'' and teamed up with Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, however, this partnership was less fruitful than Gable's previous one, with Gable being drafted to Raw the next year and forming yet another team with Wrestling/BobbyRoode, winning the Raw Tag Team Championship.
During the 2019 Superstar Shake-up, Gable was drafted to Smackdown, ending his team with Roode, and entered a feud with Wrestling/BaronCorbin, who managed to convince the announcers to shorten his name to "Shorty Gable" and eventually "Shorty G". This name change lasted for about a year, until he declared he's had enough of being Shorty G and took the name "Chad Gable" back. A few weeks later he opened a wrestling training school "Alpha Academy", taking on Otis as his first trainee. In 2021, Gable and Otis were drafted to Raw, where they managed to capture Raw Tag Team Championships in a match against [[Wrestling/RandyOrton RK]]-[[Wrestling/MattRiddle Bro]], dropping them back after 8 weeks.
In 2023, Otis managed to recruit Maxxine Dupri to Alpha Academy, with Akira Tozawa joining later that year. During this time, Gable entered a feud with the Intercontinental Champion [[Wrestling/{{WALTER}} Gunther]] and his stable the Imperium, facing off against the Ring General for the title several times, but without any success. However, when his friend Wrestling/SamiZayn earned a chance to face Gunther at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XL'' for the title, he asked Gable to become his coach, with the result being Zayn winning the title. However, during an episode of Raw a week after ''[=WrestleMania=]'' in Montreal, Zayn and Gable would face each other for the title, with Zayn successfully retaining. After the match, however, after praising his opponent, Gable attacked Zayn in front of his family, turning heel in the process.
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!!Shoosh! Chad Gable's Tropes:
* AlwaysSecondBest: The crux of his FaceHeelTurn in 2024. After failing to beat [[Wrestling/{{WALTER}} Gunther]] for the Intercontinental Championship made Gable sink into despair, while his friend Wrestling/SamiZayn gained the opportunity to fight the Ring General at ''[=WrestleMania=] XL'' and asked Gable to train him. All the effort paid off, with Zayn winning the title, but a week after Gable failed to capture it and turned against Sami, attacking him in front of his family in an attempt to turn his fortunes around.
* BadassNative: He's a registered member of the Comanche Nation.
* BadassTeacher: His gimmick as the leader of Alpha Academy revolves around him helping his trainees improve their in-ring skills.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Much like Kurt Angle, Gable hides his monstrous wrestling skills under a goofy persona, unleashing it only when the bell rings.
* CaptainErsatz: American Alpha appeared to be a two-man love letter to Wrestling/KurtAngle, with Gable representing the younger Angle from the Wrestling/AttitudeEra--the dorky arrogant guy who's also somehow endearing or funny and yet still dangerous because he can out-grapple anyone at will, while his FaceHeelTurn in 2024 having shades of Angle's "Wrestling Machine" run in Wrestling/{{TNA}}. Bonus points for American Alpha also carrying similarities to [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam a certain team of former Angle protégés]], covered below.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Both are seemingly composites of Kurt Angle and one of his former understudies, making it all the more fitting that their first taste of true success in WWE has come with teaming together:
*** As a black athletic prototypical wrestler, Jordan hearkens back to Shelton Benjamin, but his moveset and intensity is more reminiscent of prime Angle. He also has the legitimate amateur wrestling background to match both men as well. [[spoiler:And in kayfabe, Jordan is revealed to be Angle's illegitimate son, making all this similarities even more striking.]]
*** Like early Angle, Gable is a short, highly skilled amateur wrestler and Olympic competitor who wrestles in a singlet, and backstage is arrogant but with an air of goofiness about him. As the white and more technical teammate in this duo, he can also be considered one of Charlie Haas for many of the same reasons. spoiler:And he even got to team up with Shelton.
*** These similarities were {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one promo where Jordan almost called the two of them "The World's Greatest Tag Team" before Gable cut him off and asked him to stop, presumably out of respect for the original team. Even without the lampshade, not only have fans noticed this to the point of chanting their names to the candence of Angle's former WWE theme song, but Angle himself has stated in interviews during and after his Wrestling/{{TNA}} farewell tour that he'd like to return to WWE specifically to help mentor and elevate them.
** Outside the Angle-related comparisons, Gable's masterful mat technique, charming balance of nerdiness and badassery, and ability to be dangerous despite his diminutive size has also drawn comparisons to Wrestling/BryanDanielson especially in his WWE run.
* FaceHeelTurn:
** During his run with Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin, he started to use more villainous tactics, later confirming the turn by accusing [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] of being biased against them.
** His attack on Wrestling/SamiZayn in front of his family after the unsuccessful attempt to win the Intercontinental Championship made Sami's hometown crowd turn against him quickly.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Yes, Gable worked alongside Jordan as {{heel}}s early on. However, fans loved them too much to boo them, and so they became cemented as {{face}}s through their gutsy performance in defeat against Baron Corbin and Rhyno in the semi-finals of the ''Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic'' tournament.
** During his storyline with Otis, after the two started receiving positive reactions while being crafty heels, they started to become more honorable in the ring, officially cementing themselves as the good guys.
* PowerStable: Alpha Academy
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Gable stands at only 5'7, but grapples and tosses around larger foes with ease. It's routinely noted, in fact, how unusually strong he is for being one of the smallest[[labelnote:*]]non-full-time cruiserweight[[/labelnote]] guys on the roster, being able to deadlift such powerhouses as Ivar and Wrestling/BraunStrowman.
* ShoutOut: Gable's name is one to Dan Gable, the longtime head coach of the legendary Iowa Hawkeyes collegiate amateur wrestling team. Dan approves of this; he's done a short video with the "Ready, Willing and Gable" towel, and the two Gables have both been scheduled for an appearance together at an Iowa wrestling event in July 2017.
* SuplexFinisher: Oh yes. His primary finisher is ''Chaos Theory'', an O'Connor roll transitioned into a bridging German suplex.
* TagTeam:
** Wrestling/AmericanAlpha with Jason Jordan on NXT and [=SmackDown=].
** With Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin on Raw.
** With Wrestling/BobbyRoode on Raw.
