WWE: Backstage Update on Chad Gable’s Post-El Grande Americano Push Plans, WWE Reportedly Has No Plans For Event at White House, Danhausen Reportedly Did Not Attend New York Knicks NBA Title Celebration Parade, 7/18 WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Poster Released

Backstage Update on Chad Gable’s Post-El Grande Americano Push Plans

As noted before, this past May’s AAA Noche de Los Grandes 2026 event in Monterrey, Mexico featured El Grande Americano defeating Original El Grande Americano in a Mask vs. Mask match and Chad Gable unmasking himself after he lost the match. Gable has made appearances in recent weeks of WWE RAW and SmackDown shows making amends to Penta, Rey Mysterio, and Dragon Lee and apologizing for his actions as Original El Grande Americano towards them and lucha libre.

WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that there has been a strong internal push within WWE for Gable to be featured in a significant way at this August’s SummerSlam 2026 event. Those spoken to reportedly stated that this year’s event taking place in Gable’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the overwhelming fan support he has received following his run as Original El Grande Americano have been major factors for this internal push.

It was reported that many within WWE praised Gable as being one of the company’s most gifted performers.

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WWE Reportedly Has No Plans For Potential Event at White House

As noted before, several WWE talents made scheduled appearances at UFC’s Fan Fest event this past weekend in Washington, DC and Roman Reigns and others attended at this past Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House lawn in Washington, DC.

WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE officials currently do not have any plans to hold an event at the White House in the future.

It was reported that WWE and UFC’s parent company TKO Group had viewed UFC’s Freedom 250 event as being a success.

It was also reported that many within WWE would welcome the idea of a potential future event at the White House if the opportunity arose but the concept is not in the cards at the time.

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Danhausen Reportedly Did Not Attend New York Knicks NBA Title Celebration Parade

As noted before, the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs to win this year’s NBA Finals and become champions for the first time since 1973. The Knicks’ title winning run was notable for Danhausen’s involvement in him uncursing the team following his feud with ESN personality Stephen A. Smith. Following the team’s championship victory, Danhausen was invited to attend the Knicks’ victory celebration parade on Thursday in New York City.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Danhausen was not in attendance at today’s NBA Championship parade for the New York Knicks in New York City. Johnson reported that Danhausen was seen in the city in Thursday.

Johnson reported that several of his friends who had attended the parade stated that there were a number of Danhausen shirts being worn by Knicks fans.

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July 18th WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Official Poster Released

As noted before, WWE has been working on big plans for Danhausen following the New York Knicks becoming this year’s NBA Champions. These plans includes Danhausen to be a major fixture for WWE’s promotion in the New York area for their upcoming new WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show on July 18th at the Knicks’ home venue of Madison Square Garden.

WWE released the official poster for next month’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show at Madison Square Garden featuring Danhausen as the “poster boy” for the show.

If youuuuuu caaaaaan believe it! ~

Danhausen is the poster boy of @WWE Saturday Nights Main Event at @TheGarden https://t.co/iu7Y8JsZZo pic.twitter.com/FKNyoFLBeM

— Danhausen (@DanhausenAD) June 18, 2026