El Grande Americano vs. Dragon Lee said to have received “heavy praise” from people in WWE

As seen during the March 24th 2025 edition of WWE RAW, El Grande Americano (Chad Gable’s luchador character) defeated Dragon Lee in a singles match. During Sportskeeda.com’s Backstage Pass Q&A, WrestleVotes noted the following about the match…

“I did hear there was some heavy praise coming out of that match last night. Gable and Dragon Lee killed it. Crowd loved it, people backstage loved it. And that’s no surprise, Chad Gable has been getting this for years and we know what kind of talent Dragon Lee has. So good on both of them but I did hear that there was some heavy praise backstage for those two men.” (quote courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)

WWE did receive some negative feedback from fans regarding the El Grande Americano character. One Twitter/X user wrote “Gulf of America reference but no Black History Month reference, mention, or anything, great company guys” and his post received over 10k likes.