10 Sleeping Giants WWE Refuse To Push
3. Shorty G (Chad Gable, Dammit!)
Chad Gable is a former Olympic athlete. That very same person you see sporting the most visually painful aesthetic and unforgivably bad moniker in WWE today once represented the United States at the Olympic Games, for crying out loud!
How did Vinny Mac manage to screw up this gift of a performer? He literally just had to follow the blueprint laid out by Kurt Angle - the greatest Olympian to ever set foot in the world of professional wrestling.
Instead, he chose to have Gable play musical tag partners in the wake of the once-ridiculously over American Alpha being destroyed on SmackDown. Thankfully, WWE eventually settled on presenting him as a respectable, plucky, solo underdog who could wrestle his way out of any corner... jokes!
Throw a shiny vest on him and have Baron Corbin christen him 'Shorty G', pal!
Admittedly, it does feel a bit lazy to suggest that WWE should just turn Gable into a carbon copy of Angle, but surely he has more to offer than being a reliable goofy punching bag for the company's resident bullies.
With WWE rarely ever shying away from pushing one of their own as an American hero (see the success of Hogan, Cena and even 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan') Vince McMahon's reluctance to put any stock in the now 34 year-old Olympic-level amateur wrestler already looks like a huge missed opportunity.