Earlier this year, Gable made his in ring debut for WWE, facing off with Baron Corbin in singles competition. It is worth noting that Corbin has been rarely, if ever cheered by wrestling crowds as he has been a career heel so far, but was the clear babyface for the crowd despite him being a heel.
Steveson’s performance in the match was nothing too bad but wasn’t awe inspiring either. Throughout the course of the matchup, Gable would use some moves made popular by WWE Hall Of Famer Kurt Angle. The crowd, which was already firmly against Gable, began chanting that he wasn’t Kurt Angle.
On the NXT No Mercy media call, Shawn Michaels was asked to provide an update on Gable Steveson and his status in NXT.
“We certainly have every intention of using Gable. For me, honestly, Gable obviously has a number of outside commitments and it’s just me trying to figure out what’s the best way that I could work with that, with him. I obviously don’t want to get in the way of any of his personal goals. That’s obviously what we’re doing now, just trying to find out…we’ve had him on live events, which have been fantastic down here in South Florida and Central Florida. Just making sure that I know his schedule and get as best organized as we can and then sit down with him and figure out how we want to map things out going into the future. Everything has been fantastic, he’s just sometimes a pretty busy young man and I want to do everything I can to be conscious of that and work with him the best way possible going forward.”
Shawn Michaels
We will have to wait and see what happens next for Steveson in NXT and WWE as a whole but for now it appears he is in limbo while he takes care of prior commitments.
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