Chad Gable competed for the United States at the 2012 Olympic Games. Those games were held in the same city which hosts Smackdown tonight: London, England.
Gable qualified for the games by winning the US Olympic Trials in 2012 at 84kg. He would win his first bout at the Olympics, before getting eliminated in his second.
I have some fond memories of London.
Plan on making more tonight. #AmericanAlpha#SDLive pic.twitter.com/jbm6KnlO0O
— Chad Gable (@WWEGable) May 9, 2017
American Alpha in WWE
Chad Gable & Jason Jordan were paired together in NXT, and quickly became the division’s hottest tag team. American Alpha helped usher out the old era in the division by beating the Vaudevillains and Ascension. They would feud with Blake & Murphy and the Revival before getting called-up to the main roster in 2016.
American Alpha defeated the Wyatts, Slater & Rhyno, and the Usos in a 4-corners elimination match to win Smackdown’s tag titles on December 27th, 2016. They recently dropped two straight title matches to the Usos however, to both drop the titles, and fall out of title contention.
Recently, Breezango won the “Beat the Clock Challenge” to become the new #1 contenders to the Usos. American Alpha will need to put together a winning streak if they are to be back in title contention after Backlash.
