WWE: Chad Gable on When He Knew El Grande Americano Character Connected With WWE Fans, WWE Set To Hold New Talent Recruitment at Fitness Event in Hawaii, WWE Offering Ticket Discount Sale in Celebration of USA’s 250th Birthday

Chad Gable Comments on When He Knew El Grande Americano Character Connected With WWE Fans

A recent episode of the Good Karma Wrestling podcast featured Chad Gable as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Gable’s thoughts about the El Grande Americano character and his past month being his final portryal of the character.

“It has been just a wild month for me, as you can imagine, as you might have seen. I’m in good spirits. I feel like I’m in some of the best head space I’ve ever been in wrestling. Things have been up and down for a long, long time. And right now, I feel like we’re in just this awesome spot where I’m just creatively fulfilled. Just everything’s going well on the show. We’ve got some great stories going on and coming off the mask vs. mask match that I was just I’m so proud of for so many reasons and we’re in a good spot.”

Gable also gave his thoughts about the moment when he realized that the El Grande Americano character connected with WWE fans and was getting over as a gimmick.

“Not a chance, you know? No way. I mean, that’s the best thing, one of the best things I think about wrestling, right, is you just never know. You never know what it is that’s going to land, what it is that the audience is going to latch on to or why really. And when you really think about the path that we had to go on to get to that point, it would have never happened if it weren’t for so many different variables there. And someday everyone, I think, will become privy to like how many there actually were. There’s a lot more than people even know about, but something as obvious as my injury, right? And me having to go away that if I hadn’t gotten injured, none of this would have ever taken the route that it did.And it’s just magic. That’s what wrestling is.

I think for me it was the night if you recall that we had started our story down there a little bit. And it was the night that we got into our first big brawl around the ring and around the arena a little bit. And that started clicking not only for I think the audience, but for me because that was a moment that I was so in the moment  and it felt real to me. It was visceral. Like I wanted to hurt this man so bad for taking what was mine, what I had created. And that was life or death for me for those four or five minutes or whatever it was.

And when I walked away from that that night, I’m like ‘we got something here.’ This is special because I’ve never felt that way about something in the past yet. And it unlocked this whole new realm and aspect of pro wrestling for me. I’m like ‘man, I can treat this the same exact way as I treated Greco Roman wrestling, as I treated amateur wrestling.’ Like visceral, man. Like feel it, go into it a competition. I’m going to wreck this guy. And that was my mindset from that moment on out. And I think that’s really what both of our mindsets were.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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WWE Set To Hold New Talent Recruitment at Fitness Event in Hawaii

KHON2 reported that WWE will be having a talent recruitment booth at this year’s upcoming Hawaii Fitness Expo on June 27-28 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

It was reported that WWE’s booth will be open both days of the expo and will give attendees the chance to learn more about pro wrestling career opportunities the company offers.

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WWE Offering Ticket Discount Sale in Celebration of USA’s 250th Birthday

WWE announced that they are currently holding a discount sale on tickets for select upcoming WWE events in celebration of the United States’ 250 birthday this July.

This discount was announced to be a 25% off on select tickets for all domestic live events. This sale was also announced to run through 11:59PM EST on July 6.

The promo code to apply for the discount is “America.”

Full list of eligible shows for WWE’s ticket discount sale:

• June 29 – WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey
• July 6 – WWE Raw at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois
• July 10 – WWE SmackDown at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• July 11 – WWE Live Event at Pan American Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico
• July 12 – WWE Live Event at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• July 13 – WWE Raw at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
• July 16 – WWE Live Event at PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania
• July 17 – WWE SmackDown at MVP Arena in Albany, New York
• July 18 – WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event at Madison Square Garden in New York City
• July 20 – WWE Raw at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan
• July 24 – WWE SmackDown at Oakland Arena in Oakland, California
• July 25 – WWE Live Event at Adventist Health Arena in Stockton, California
• July 26 – WWE Live Event at Dignity Health Arena in Bakersfield, California
• July 27 – WWE Raw at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California
• July 30 – WWE Live Event at Bank of Springfield Center in Springfield, Illinois
• July 31 – WWE SmackDown at Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin
• August 1 – SummerSlam 2026 Night One at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• August 2 – SummerSlam 2026 Night Ywo at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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— WWE (@WWE) June 26, 2026