Chad Gable: Working with Wyatt Sicks, Bo Dallas is ‘so special’

Chad Gable opened up about being involved in an angle with the Wyatt Sicks during a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet.

When Uncle Howdy’s faction debuted on Raw nearly two months ago, they attacked several people backstage including Gable. The Wyatts’ victims were motionless and some fans took this to mean they were dead. Triple H later revealed on the Pat McAfee Show that Gable was still very much alive.

Gable says the segment led to an interesting situation that week when he attended church.

“Yeah, that was that was quite a night,” Gable said of the June 17 episode of WWE Raw. “Out of everything I’ve done over the past couple of years, the response to that was so out of this world insane. People thought [I was dead], I can’t tell you the amount of people that thought something actually happened to me. I went to church that Sunday and ran into a little kid who was watching. I was kind of hiding my head from him and he was like making his way around me to get a look at my head. And he’s like ‘Where did it [the wound] go?’ I’m like, ‘Well, I mean, I fixed it bud, I went to the hospital and stuff, it was bad.’ And he’s like ‘What did they do to you?’ I’m like, ‘You’ll have to tune in tomorrow night.’ They were into it, it was really interesting.”

“What the storyline has done is it came at this awesome time when I had just done the turn. I had become this abusive coaching character, which people got a whole new look which I thought did wonders for me. Then all of a sudden at the same congruently the Wyatts came in and forced me to be vulnerable. So we get Chad Gable, who’s this abusive over the top, shows no vulnerability, and now he’s forced to. So you’re getting these two dynamic stories at the same time. I benefit from this and not a lot of people get to dip their hands in so many different stories at one time.”

Gable also revealed during the interview that initially it was supposed to be just him that the Wyatts attacked when they debuted on Raw.

“It was going to be that I was going to be the lone guy kind of laid out. Initially, we didn’t really know to what degree. But when we got it ready to go, we’ll say we were blown away, like, holy crap, what exactly happened to me here? We’re not sure and we just ran with it. There was no plan, we kind of saw how it worked out. And it worked out, I think, to our advantage better than we expected. Because the response to that from an audience standpoint was just out of this world. I think it just helped the whole intro of the family and their aura and they’ve been doing so great with that. You can tell the audience they’re just taken aback by them. Every single week, the vibe in the crowd, you’ll see it tomorrow night when you’re there, maybe you have already. But it’s something else when you’re out there in the arena, and they show up man.”

Gabe continued to say that working with Bo Dallas and playing a part in his carrying on of Bray Wyatt’s legacy is a special position to be in. He opened up about what Wyatt meant to his career and working with Dallas on his first WWE program in five years.

“That’s special for a number of reasons. Bo, he’s so excited about this, and he should be, but I feel his energy and his anxiety, the good anxiety, he has his pacing back and forth before watching him. And it’s similar to watch, eerie in a way, but also so comforting because Windham was very similar and I had the very good fortune to work with Windham when I first got called up to SmackDown. We were on a European tour, my first ever, and he was with Randy (Orton) at the time. We were over there, me and Jason Jordan as American Alpha, we’re doing some other match, I don’t even know what it was. But then they watched us work the first night and requested to work with us like the rest of the tour. So the whole card got flipped around. So for 9 or 10 days straight over there in the UK and in Europe, we worked with Randy and Bray every night, and it was awesome. They just had nothing but the nicest stuff to say about us afterwards. They dropped the tag team titles to us about a month later, which to me was just like a nod to us as you guys are great. But I learned a lot from Bray in that time and just gained the utmost respect for him. Because he’s one of those guys that when he speaks his mind or gives you feedback you listen. Nothing he says feels like he’s just saying it. Hey, kid, here’s a piece of advice. It’s like he’s looking at you, and offering you his real piece of mind. And something I found about myself that I’ve kind of discovered over the past few years, and this happens with Randy too, or I find with people that I hold in very high regard. I don’t always have like these, I’m not texting him all the time. I don’t have those types of relationships where I’m constantly staying in touch every day and I’m talking to them. But when they say something to me, I store it somewhere in here, and it means so much to me. Bray was one of those people and Randy’s one of those people. So now, like you said, to your point, to be selected as the first guy to have to work with Bray or to work with Bo as he carries on Bray’s legacy. To me, I get to play a small part in carrying on the legacy, which is so special. So when he gave me Windham’s old finisher the other night. I wanted to make it look good, put some stank on it and make it look a little extra special to go that was for you my friend and now also for Bo as he carries it on. So I think all of us that are playing a part in this right now are in a very special position and a very delicate one to carry it on and do it in the right way. So it’s balanced like a golden egg, take care of it. It’s a cool, cool thing.”

Gable’s full interview with Chris Van Vliet is available below.