Gable Steveson is dipping his toes into as many different sporting avenues as he can. While it takes a special athlete to compete in the Olympics, winning a gold medal is an entirely different story. Try accomplishing that feat at only 21 years old, which is exactly what Steveson did in the 2020 Games when he became the youngest to ever do so in men's freestyle wrestling.
Unfortunately, Steveson, now 24, has been unable to lock down a consistent means of career since. The Olympic success initially led him down a similar path as his fellow Olympian Kurt Angle, who famously won gold in wrestling "with a broken frickin' neck" before joining the WWE in the late 1990s. Steveson signed to the WWE roster in 2021 and made a handful of appearances, but was released this past May.
Life, Steveson said, simply became too much of a juggling act. "When I got to WWE, everything was great, and everything went great the whole time. It just wasn't the right time," Steveson said in a candid conversation on "After I signed with WWE, I tried to go back to wrestle [in the amateurs], and you can't consistently do one foot in, one foot out of everything.
As later time had gone on, it just wasn't the right thing and I wanted to keep wrestling and keep going in that direction. WWE had a different direction. Obviously, it's no hard feelings, it's never bad blood.
I got to see Paul Levesque (Triple H) at the UFC (309) event and we had a brief convo and everything was very civil and very nice. It was gre.