10 Best Kept Secrets In Wrestling Today
3. Chad Gable
How do you call a regular performer on WWE's flagship television show any kind of "secret," let alone "best-kept?". By acknowledging that on a skill-to-spotlight ratio, Chad Gable is one of the most marginalised wrestlers in the company's impossibly vast talent pool, and a real hidden gem who deserves more than his current role as a lower-midcard treasure.
Gable's enthusiasm and skill are as infectious as his in-ring ability is prodigious. The guy whose boundless energy got Jason Jordan over in 2015 is now saving the not-so-glorious Bobby Roode from oblivion in 2018, though Vince McMahon's deep-rooted hatred for all things tag wrestling is a formidable glass ceiling. Nonetheless, Gable is regularly the best part of every single thing he takes part in but may now in danger of becoming Heath Slater 2.0, with his endearing value as an entertainer never getting the recognition it deserves.
We're not calling for him to be promoted to the main event scene, but there should be a role for Gable somewhere on the upper-midcard. He's too good to be stuck in a go-nowhere babyface tandem with a wrestler who needs to turn heel for anything about his act to be viable.