The reason why the El Grande Americano character was created in WWE
While speaking to WittyWhittier, Chad Gable commented on why the El Grande Americano character was created in WWE. Here is what Gable had to say about the gimmick…
“The El Grande Americano thing, you know, started just as me wanting to kind of put more into a story that I was already involved with, with these luchadors, and I wanted to take it to another level. This was my idea of donning this mask and, like, my way to try to elevate this story, not knowing where it was going to take me, you know, career-wise.
And you never really can predict stuff like that. And then, on top of that, the injuries. So, for those that don’t know, I had a shoulder surgery. Rotator cuff was torn, bicep tendon, all kinds of stuff that I had to have repaired that forced me to go away.
And again, it’s circumstantial. Who knows where we’d be right now if all of these elements had not just turned out the way they did? Somebody else took over the El Grande Americano gimmick and they were doing it while I was hurt. I come back, and now we’ve got a built-in story there.
And it is, like you said, a bit of an odyssey and a journey. We had to go through, like, I would call it valleys and peaks and lows and things like that to get here. But now where I’m at, it’s almost like, man, I couldn’t have written it any better than it turned out, you know? I feel very fortunate in that aspect.”