Gable Steveson Planning To Focus On WWE From March

WWE have very high hopes for Olympic Gold medal winning freestyle wrestler Gable Steveson, and it seems like they will be able to mould him into their own image very soon.

Despite signing Steveson in September 2021, and drafting him to RAW a month later, he was allowed to continue his college education, and continue wrestling for the Minnesota Gophers. But with the forthcoming NCAA Wrestling Championships in March signifying the end of his time with the Gophers, Steveson told KSTP Sport that his focus going forward will be WWE:

“It’s not slowing down. Right when March ends, I’m picking it up and I think I’m gonna — I’ll probably head to WrestleMania and do some — I don’t know what from there but you’ll see and then it just picks up again,” says Steveson. “It’s like it’s no break and so, I mean it’ll be a good body break for me to sit after the NCAA tournament because I’ve been practicing since what? October and probably since the Olympics. I took [some time] off and then came right back to it so, it’ll be good for me to sit and just getting in something new and you know, I’m just trying to push through these few weeks — I’m not trying to push through. I’m trying to really get after it and handle them mentally and physically in the best way possible and just move on to the next step right away.”

Steveson has been around WWE here-and-there since signing with the company, with the amateur wrestling standout having an in-depth conversation with Brock Lesnar at Day 1 in January:

“The balance is pretty good [between professional wrestling and amateur wrestling practice], you know? I do things here and there. There’s sometimes I’ll go to Monday Night Raws and I’ll show up and I’ll be in the back and just sit around and a lot of those times, I’m just soaking [it] in,” continued Steveson. “I’ll look at what Brock [Lesnar] does throughout the whole time or I’ll look at, who else? Big E. I look at how they handle themselves and try to keep it so that when my time comes, I’m already hip to everything and I’m ready to go and so like, there’s a - when I go to them, you really never see me on the stage.

“If someone takes a picture of me backstage, you’ll see me backstage but, I’m really there just soaking in the energy and like, pinpointing everything they do and everything I see and there’s times - I follow Kurt Angle on Instagram, he’ll post a video and I’m looking [at] how he looks, how he talks, how he moves and so when it’s my time, I’m perfecting it already and so, that was a big thing for me but with the amateur, it’s - with the regular wrestling in college, I’m focused on that more right now but there’s been many times when I was going to - I went to WWE Day 1 and I went to many others and I literally just sit back there and I was sitting, talking to Lesnar for 30 minutes about, ‘Hey, what’s this? This? And this?’ And he’ll tell me and I’ll just say hi to Vince [McMahon] for a few minutes and I’m literally just trying to dissect so like, like I said, when that time comes, it’s a hit, I know what I’m doing right away.”

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