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After officially turning on Sami Zayn in Montreal and watching him take a pretty serious beating from Bronson Reed backstage, Chad Gable assembled the Alpha Academy in the middle of the ring to explain why he decided to upset Charles Barkley and turn heel on the “Underdog from the Underground.” Would Gable reveal that there […]

When a defeated Chad Gable decided to go absolutely ballistic on Sami Zayn after he successfully defended his Intercontinental Championship, it drew pretty big reactions from all over the professional wrestling world, with upset reactions coming from fans, other wrestlers, and… NBA Hall of Famer and TNT NBA panelist Charles Barkley? Surprising? You bet, but […]

After spending weeks getting their gameplan together for an Intercontinental Championship match for the ages with Gunther at WrestleMania 40, Chad Gable and Sami Zayn will soon find themselves on opposite sides of the versus symbol on RAW, with the former challenging the latter for his newly won strap in his first official title defense […]

Heading into WrestleMania 40, the narrative pushed by WWE and present online was one and the same: is Sami Zayn a good enough wrestler to end Gunther’s 666-day reigns as the Intercontinental Champion? Sure, Zayn has accomplished a lot during his professional wrestling career, and just ended The Usos’ record-breaking reign alongside Kevin Owens last […]

When Booker T broke the news on his Hall of Fame podcast that Sami Zayn was disappointed by the response he received to his match with Chad Gable on RAW, it came as a bit of a surprise. Sure, the conditions by which the reporting happened were totally cool, as Booker and Zayn ended up […]

If you’re a fan of professional wrestling, especially one who got into the sport in the heyday of the Monday Night Wars, you’re probably familiar with the Hall of Fame podcast, Booker T‘s addition to the post-wrestling media landscape that runs through the greatest hits of professional wrestling past, present, and future And yet, on […]

After securing the decisive win over five other Superstars in a Gauntlet match to decide on the next challenger for Gunther’s Intercontinental Championship, Sami Zayn was riding high. Suddenly, after weeks and weeks of hoping for his chance to land a spot on the “Showcase of the Immortals,” Zayn had punched his ticket to the […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, Chad Gable finally earned his chance to punch his ticket to WrestleMania 40 and, more importantly, his chance at revenge against Gunther, the “Ring General,” Intercontinental Champion, and the man who made his daughter cry during their fantastic championship match last fall on RAW. On paper, the rules were […]

When news broke that Maxxine Dupri was booed at a California house show before Elimination Chamber for her, shall we say, green wrestling in a match against Nia Jax, it split opinions across the IWC. Some fans found the behavior totally acceptable, noting that show attendants have every right to boo a performer if they […]

For a time in 2023, it looked like Chad Gable was going to be the man who unseated Gunther as the Intercontinental Champion. Initially entering into a program with Imperium as part of an Alpha Academy comedy schtick, Gable rapidly proved he was a legitimate worker capable of lasting five minutes and eventually even longer […]

The WWE 2K24 Ratings Reveal for another faction, the Alpha Academy, is here! Check out the ratings for Akira Tozawa, Maxxine Dupri, Otis, and Chad Gable in this article. The Alpha Academy is one of the most popular stables in WWE today, but more due to their comedic antics rather than wrestling acumen. The gimmick […]

Though it didn’t come with some grand gesture or a redemption arc of legendary proportions, Chad Gable has quietly but steadily become one of the top babyfaces on the RAW brand through his back-and-forth program with Gunther and even after failing to capture the Intercontinental Championship before the “Ring General” could set the all-time record […]

When Chad Gable took the ring against Gunther for the third time mere days before the “Ring General” unseated The Honkey Tonk Man’s all-time Intercontinental Championship record, the “Master” of Alpha Academy took things personal. Despite the lofty task at hand, the former Olympian hit the media circuit, brought his family to the show, and […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, Gunther and his current rival, Chad Gable, finally got in the ring for the rubber match of their feud, working a main event showcase with no stipulations, no time limits, and, most importantly of all, no members of either team allowed ringside to interfere with the outcome for better […]

After jumping through hoop after hoop after hoop, Chad Gable was finally afforded a chance to get in the ring with the “Ring General” of Imperium, Gunther, for his final scheduled Intercontinental Championship bout before officially surpassing The Honkey Tonk Man as the longest-reigning holder of the title. Taking the ring at the Spectrum Center […]

With Chad Gable officially set to take place in the biggest match of his professional wrestling career, a match that could either make him a singles champion for the first time in his professional career or clear the path for Gunther to become the longest-reigning Intercontinental Champion in WWE history, WWE sent Byron Saxton to […]

Though he may not currently have the Intercontinental Championship around his waist, Chad Gable earned a pretty darn good consolation prize on RAW, when he became the first man to secure a singles win – albeit count-out – over Gunther since he was elevated onto the WWE main roster in 2022. Call it a cheap […]

There was basically no downside for Chad Gable when he took the ring against Gunther on RAW. If he won the match, Gable would earn his first-ever singles title win as a member of the promotion, an improbable yet true distinction, and finally prove to folks the world over that the Alpha Academy breeds champions. […]

When Gunther takes the ring on the Friday, September 8th edition of SmackDown, he will officially be the longest-reigning Intercontinental Champion in WWE history… assuming he doesn’t lose to Chad Gable first either on the Blue Brand or in a match booked for Payback the week before. Standing pretty at 437 days with the strap […]

After splitting their matches on a second-straight episode of RAW, the members of Alpha Academy, Chad Gable, Otis, and Maxxine Dupri, took their show to the locker room to evaluate their options against an Imperium trio that just won’t seem to quit. On paper, the faction is far better off than they were even a […]

Ahead of Giovanni Vinci’s scheduled match with Chad Gable on RAW, the “Ring General” himself, Gunther, decided to ascend to the top of the WWE  announce table to send a message to the Alpha Academy and the rest of the WWE Universe about who has a legitimate shot at ending his Intercontinental Championship reign and […]

After literally years of anticipation, fans finally got to see Gable Steveson wrestle his first match as a member of the greater WWE Universe at The Great American Bash, and the results… were not good. Taking the ring against main roster stalwart Baron Corbin, Steveson was booed for most of the match, and that sour […]

Though Chad Gable may be a tad prickly, as he spent quite a while working heel before fully turning babyface with his fellow Alpha Academy members Otis and Maxxine Dupri, at his heart, the former member of American Alphas is a babyface hero, especially when he’s wrestling in front of his home city of Minneapolis, […]

Though it feels like they’ve been teaming up forever as members of the WWE Universe, Chad Gable and Otis only began working together in 2020, when the former incorporated his own wrestling school, the Alpha Academy, and named the former member of Heavy Machinery as his new top pupil. Over their shared tenure together, Gable […]

After taking an ugly loss to Erik, Ivar, and Valhalla in a Viking Rules match on RAW, it looked like the feud between The Viking Raiders and Alpha Academy was over… or was it? Byron Saxton took it upon himself to find out his asked Chad Gable, Maxxine Dupri, and Otis if they still want […]

After securing her first-ever wrestling win in a match against Valhalla on Monday Night RAW, Chad Gable and Otis had seemingly seen enough of the former Maximum Male Models leader and were ready to graduate Maxxine Dupri from the Alpha Academy. Taking the ring to “Pomp & Circumstance” while decked out in graduation ropes for […]

When Maxxine Dupri transitioned from being the manager of the Maximum Male Models to becoming the third in Alpha Academy, a seductress turned supporter of Otis who now serves as a pupil under “master” Chad Gable, fans assumed that the former LA Rams Cheerleader would tone things down and embrace a more academic, dare-I-say scholarly […]

Though Chad Gable technically was the only member of the Alpha Academy to work a match on Monday Night RAW, the standout member of the team was its newest one, Maxxine Dupri, who took down Valhalla with a hip toss and received an incredible reaction from the fans in Kansas. Stopping by RAW Talk to […]

There was a time when it looked like Gable Steveson was going to be the next big thing in WWE. A dominant collegiate wrestler at the University of Minnesota, the very same school where Brock Lesnar, Shelton Benjamin, and his own brother Bobby – aka NXT‘s Damian Kemp – all attended, Steveson was drafted onto […]

In less than two years, Maxxine Dupri went from a WWE signee, to a valet alongside Mr. Robert Stone in Robert Stone’s corner, to a fixture of SmackDown and eventually RAW, where she gets talking segments on the regular first as a member of the Maximum Male Models and now alongside Otis and Chad Gable […]

Ever since Maxxine Dupri took an interest in Otis, first as a Maximum Male Model and then in a Mandy Rose sort of way, Chad Gable has been hesitant to let his number one guy attempt to spread his wings and fly… at least until the most recent edition of RAW, when Dupri actually helped […]

And last but not least, in the sixth round of Day 2, the 10th overall round if you count the first four rounds and 16 acts picked on Day 1, JBL and Teddy Long announced the final four selections in the 2023 WWE Draft, filling out the RAW and SmackDown rosters before WWE announces the […]

Chad Gable is one of the more entertaining and talented wrestlers on the WWE roster. Gable has been able to get over with almost every gimmick he’s been given and is, without a doubt, one of the premier athletes in the company. Despite losing more matches than winning, he’s proven that he’s one of the […]

If there’s one member of the WWE Universe who has benefitted the most from Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s newfound leadership atop the company’s creative department, it’s Chad Gable. Sure, the man criminally known as Shorty G wasn’t released due to “budget cuts” or suddenly saved from being a fixture of catering, he was still used […]

On screen, the leader of the Alpha Academy, Chad Gable, really doesn’t like the Maximum Male Models or what they have been doing with his number one guy, Otis. For… reasons, the proprietor of the MMMs, Maxxine Dupri, has taken a unique interest in Otis, maybe for his unique look, maybe for his commercial-worthy hands, […]

When Cody Rhodes left AEW to try his hand at WWE once more, it served as the ultimate test case of how Tony Khan’s company had changed the industry forever. After AEW effectively served as a safe space for creatively frustrated wrestlers who wanted to test their own ideas on a national stage, away from […]

Ahead of RAW, the penultimate edition of WWE’s Monday night show before “The Showcase of the Immortals,” WrestleMania 39, Byron Saxton had a huge announcement for fans ready to watch their favorite Superstars rumble: Paul “Triple H” Levesque has booked a “WrestleMania Showcase Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Match” for WrestleMania 39 featuring The Street Profits, […]

For much of Monday Night RAW, Chad Gable had one mission and one mission alone within the WWE Universe: find Otis. That’s right, though the situation wasn’t particularly well explained, as everyone from Damage CTRL to Becky Lynch and Lita interrupted the search for the Alpha Academy’s “number one guy,” Gable spent his evening on […]

WWE’s Chad Gable does not like Baron Corbin. Though it feels like distant history now, the leader of the Alpha Academy was initially given the horrible “Shorty G” moniker by the now-friendless former king, and that moniker weighed down his career for literally years, with the Olympic athlete still attempting to recover to this very […]