Chad Gable Comments On Jason Jordan’s Career-Ending WWE Injury & 2017 Kurt Angle Storyline

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Chad Gable has reflected on the career-ending injury of Jason Jordan, as well as his former partner’s notorious 2017 WWE storyline involving Hall of Famer Kurt Angle.

After a successful run in WWE NXT and SmackDown from 2014-2017, American Alpha’s Chad Gable and Jason Jordan were suddenly split when the latter was drafted to Raw for a major storyline involving the brand’s then General Manager Kurt Angle.

Jordan was revealed to be Angle’s son, a story that represented a big push for Jordan, but was not the most well received by fans at the time.

In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Gable commented on the angle and Jordan’s role in it as well as his former partner’s career-ending injury.

Gable reflected:

“There was never any talk of any of that until it happened. We found out about that whole thing the day before, or two days before. We got called in, they told us the deal, and up until that point, we thought we were just hunky-dory tag team boys for the long run. But that night, they sent Jason to wherever TV was, and they sent me to Birmingham, Alabama I remember, and I just sat in my hotel room and watched Monday Night Raw as they announced, and I said, ‘What? Okay…’ And that was it. That’s how I found out.

“I think Jason, he clearly – I mean, what a talent. He’s such a strapping young lad, and probably in the company’s eyes at that point in time, out of the two of us… besides his unfortunate injury, he was gonna be a superstar. He was off and running with the stuff he was doing with Seth Rollins.

“I know he got a lot of crap when he first started with the stuff with Kurt and the character he had taken on, but people didn’t realize, that was how you were supposed to feel about that character. He was playing it perfectly. And everyone was very critical of a lot of the traits that the character was doing, and I’m like… you’re doing it right man, that’s what you’re supposed to be doing.

“Right before his injury, he was peaking, and he was getting all these awesome singles matches. He had wrestled Cena, he was wrestling all these guys, just killing it.

“What an unfortunate end, but thankfully he’s taken on a producer position and he’s just, like, every time he tells me that he’s got my segment or my matches it’s music to my ears.”

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Jordan would last compete inside a WWE ring at the 2018 Royal Rumble, being forced into retirement due to a serious neck injury.

Since his career-ending injury Jordan has worked as a backstage producer but can often be seen on WWE TV during pull-apart brawls and other segments where extra helping hands are needed to maintain order between WWE stars.

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