Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson was expected to have joined the WWE main roster by this point, but that clearly hasn’t occurred. Through the WWE Draft, he was selected to join Raw in October 2021, and at WrestleMania 38, he made a brief cameo. In December, he also made an appearance for Kurt Angle’s birthday celebration.
He had a heart procedure, delaying WWE’s plans for him. On NXT, Bobby Steveson, Gable’s brother, competes as Damon Kemp.
He announced last month that he would return to amateur competition in preparation for his appearance at the US Open.
Prior to having a health scare that forced him to retire from wrestling, Triple H acknowledged in previous interviews that he had discussed the possibility of working with Steveson at WrestleMania 38 with Vince McMahon.
Dave Meltzer summarized Steveson’s current situation on Wrestling Observer Radio and provided a little more information about what WWE had in store for him.
“The original idea was he was gonna do college wrestling that season, which he did, and they were gonna bring him to a couple of Raws during the year. He wasn’t gonna wrestle, but he was gonna make appearances to build up his debut which was gonna be at WrestleMania. And yeah, never appeared, still hasn’t appeared…..He’d retired after winning the Olympic gold medal, actually after winning the NCAA Championship last year because he came back from the Olympics to win the NCAA Championship. Then he retired and he was gonna go into WWE and all that.
“Obviously that has not materialized. He did have the surgery to repair the Wolff’s Heart (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome), but his progress has not… he hasn’t lit the world on fire by any means and they haven’t put him on for that very reason. In January of 2022, over a year ago, I remember being told Gable Steveson is going to be fast-tracked to the main roster right after the college season is over and Bron Breakker was going to be called up pretty soon as well, which also didn’t happen,” Meltzer stated.
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
