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4. Chad Gable Is Short

Chad Gable is short
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This is literally his own weakness as a performer, so why do WWE keep drawing attention to it?

Slick, charismatic, fun to watch, and with a track record of elevating otherwise uninteresting material, the former American Alpha man is an underutilized undercard gem. He is absolutely somebody WWE could be making better use of and the kind of player the Intercontinental Championship division should be built around, yet reductive height jokes are all the writers can come up with him at the moment.

That wrestlers must be giants to be believable is a minority view in 2019. Perhaps he isn't built to headline pay-per-views, but Gable deserves better. This isn't how you get wrestlers over - it's the opposite.

... and it's coming from Shelton Benjamin, too! That might be the worst part. These guys used to tag together, so surely the former 'Gold Standard' has more on Chad than this?

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