WWE has signed a number of noteworthy wrestlers over the last few years and there was a lot of hype surrounding Gable Steveson when he signed with the company. However, he’s been with WWE for some time now and the Olympic gold medal winner has yet to wrestle a match on TV.
It seems that at one point WWE had plans for Steveson to debut on the main roster and receive a big push. Steveson indicated during an interview with MMA Fighting back in March that his WWE in-ring debut would be happening shortly after WrestleMania 39, but so far WWE has given no indication that will be the case.
Dave Meltzer recently discussed original plans for Gable Steveson’s in-ring debut on Wrestling Observer Radio, and he noted that the idea was for him to debut at WrestleMania last year.
“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.”
Meltzer also noted that Bron Breakker was discussed for a main roster call up last year when he added, “In January of 2022 which was over a year ago, I remember being told that Gable Steveson was gonna be fast-tracked to the main roster right after the college season was over. And Bron Breakker was gonna be brought up pretty soon as well, which also didn’t happen.”
Earlier this month Team USA confirmed that Gable Steveson is set to return to amateur wrestling. There’s currently no word on whether or not WWE still has plans for his in-ring debut with the company.
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