Report: Why Gable Steveson Has Yet To Make His Full-Time WWE Debut Revealed

After being signed by WWE in September 2021 and drafted to Monday Night Raw one month later, hopes were high for Gable Steveson in WWE amidst reports he was going to be fast-tracked to the main event scene, but Steveson has only made a handful of appearances on WWE TV over the past year and he has yet to make his in-ring debut. 

It was previously noted that WWE originally wanted Steveson to make his in-ring debut at WrestleMania 38 and Triple H pitched to face the Olympic gold medallist before he suffered from serious heart problems. Steveson himself has dealt with his own heart issues, undergoing surgery in September 2022 to treat Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. 

Steveson has been training at the WWE Performance Center full-time since October of last year and, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, WWE wanted the two-time Dan Hodge Trophy winner to debut by now. WWE haven't put Steveson on TV full-time, however, because "he hasn't lit the world on fire" while training to be a talent. 

"The original idea was he was gonna do college wrestling that season, which he did, and they were gonna bring him to a couple of Raws during the year. He wasn't gonna wrestle, but he was gonna make appearances to build up his debut which was gonna be at WrestleMania. And yeah, never appeared, still hasn't appeared.....He'd retired after winning the Olympic gold medal, actually after winning the NCAA Championship last year because he came back from the Olympics to win the NCAA Championship. Then he retired and he was gonna go into WWE and all that. Obviously that has not materialised. He did have the surgery to repair the Wolff's Heart (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome), but his progress has not...he hasn't lit the world on fire by any means and they haven't put him on for that very reason," Meltzer said.

Steveson recently revealed that he thinks he will make his full-time WWE debut following WrestleMania 39. The Show of Shows took place on April 1 and April 2 but Steveson has yet to appear on TV, although the company has seen a creative shake-up after Vince McMahon became the head of creative once again. 

H/T to WrestlingNews.co