Chad Gable Reflects On WWE SummerSlam Win, Says AAA Run Was ‘Magic’

Chad Gable spoke about his reaction to winning the WWE Intercontinental Title at WWE SummerSlam and his experiences in AAA. The former OG El Grande Americano captured the title from Penta at night two of the PLE, marking his first major singles title in WWE after 13 years with the company. The win comes after he became a sensation through his El Grande Americano character in AAA and follows years of toiling under bad booking and characters like “Shorty G,” among others.

Gable reflected on the emotional moment of winning the title with his family at ringside in his hometown on the WWE SummerSlam post-show. He also credited the fans in Mexico for helping make his run down there the “magic period” that it was. You can see the highlights below:

On His Reaction To His Win:

“I was a grown man, husband, father. And I found myself fighting back tears and I couldn’t do it, I lost it. The tears were just flowing. It’s reminiscent, it just reminds you of everything. I mean, I don’t need to list all of it but I mean, Shorty G, man. There was some low points. And you either stick with it and demand it of yourself that you’re gonna overcome it all, or you don’t. And I demanded it of myself, and that was so fulfilling.”

On His Run in AAA:

“I call that just an absolute magic period of my career. You know, you have these little stretches of time and these pockets, they’re like happenings in your career. And like, it happened at NXT at times, and things like that. This time in Mexico was like that, it was like lightning in a bottle. And it’s crazy, the amount of circumstances that had to happen to work out the way it did. I mean, that’s God’s plan, that’s how things work out. You can’t write a story as perfect as that.

“And it just was so magic every time I went down there, the crowd down there, the fans, the people, the culture — they’re all really responsible for what you saw go on down there. Because they put just as much into it as we did as performers. And when you get everyone working together for an effort like that, it’s just magic.”

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