Otis Reflects On Crowd Reaction To His Standing Up To Chad Gable

Otis got a massive crowd reaction when he finally stood up to Chad Gable over the summer, and he recently recalled the moment. The segment went down on the June 17th episode of Raw and saw Otis shove Gable and rip off his Alpha Academy shirt after Gable berated Akira Tozawa and Maxxine Dupri, then grabbed Dupri’s crutch away and slapping Tozawa all because Gable himself had lost a match.

Otis talked about the moment during his recent appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, and you can see the highlights below (per Fightful):

On the crowd’s reaction to his standing up to Gable: “Oh yeah. In my words, in Gorilla, I go, ‘I’m so f*cking hard right now.’ [Laughs] It was the coolest s**t, and there’s still a lot of story there too. It’s just one of those things organically, me and Gable, we don’t have to talk much about how we’re gonna do it, if that makes sense. It’s kind of like he knows how I would react. He’s seen me pissed, he’s seen me cry, he’s seen me all this stuff, so he knows what I gotta do to kind that switch on because again, it kind of was funny because everyone’s like, ‘Make sure you look serious,’ and I’m going, ‘Guys, you ever see me get pissed off in real life?’ Pretty scary. [Laughs] It’s not hard to get pissed. Usually I’m pretty chill.”

On his shoving Gable during the segment: “I remember going, ‘Is the push enough?’ I was like, let’s try it out. Because I’m thinking club him, slam him.”