JBL Says WWE Should Put The IC Title On Chad Gable At SummerSlam 

On the latest episode of Something To Wrestle With, JBL was asked what he’d do with the Chad Gable vs. Penta Intercontinental Title match at SummerSlam, and made the case for Gable — while warning against booking like a fan. Gable won a shot at Penta for the title on Monday’s WWE Raw. You can check out his comments below:

On Giving Gable the Title:

“If that’s where you’re going with him, yeah I’d put the title on him. Not any doubt in my mind, unless they have some idea of where they want to go with him next. Sometimes the route to get there is not — you’ve got to be careful not to book like a fan. I always say if you want to kill a territory, let the fans book it. Because they’d have the Governor in The Walking Dead killed in the first episode. If it’s up to me, because I watch The Walking Dead, I want him dead now. But instead I’ve got to watch two seasons, and so I watch every single bit of it, going, ‘Oh, get him this week, get him this week.’ I know they’re not going to get him this week because it’s not the end of the season. I don’t care, I watch it anyway.

“It’s an old saying in wrestling: if you want to kill a territory, let the fans book it because they just put the good guys over. I don’t know if this is the spot, but to me it feels like the spot where you put Chad Gable over and start this big nice run with him. He is such an incredible worker, and guys like this only come along once or twice a generation. Chad’s figured it out. Maybe that run down in Mexico with Undertaker is what got him to that next level, I don’t know. But he’s there, and you’ve got to figure out now what to do with him.”

On Gable’s Future:

“I think the World Title picture is probably where he would head. He’s so popular right now, it’s unbelievable — everybody dressing like him, people doing his symbols and all the things he does. Penta is incredibly over. The Intercontinental Title at times was the working man’s title, but it was also at times a main event title. When you’re running two shows a night, you’d have the Intercontinental Champion on one show and the World Championship on the other. So it all depends on who holds it and the storyline that gets you there. Sometimes it’s an absolute featured title as much as the world title, and sometimes it’s kind of a throwaway.”

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