That's not reporting, that's speculation based on an ambiguous tweet and some guy who doesn't know anything certain.
Seriously. Steveson didn't sign at WWE HQ or even attach a pic of the contract with WWE letterhead.
For real. All those reporting this cite Dave Meltzer as their source but no where can I find him saying or writing that Gable signed with WWE. I mean the guy is active on Twitter. Admittedly I’m not an expert on that forum but I don’t see anywhere that he reported this Gable news which I’d assume he would before someone else could beat him to the punch. Or no …?
News Flash from FLO: Gable puts pen to paper*
*Gable had lunch with his family and paid the bill........check out the latest on Suriano ......
^^ This.
Sure, theoretically. Kinda like you could theoretically not get electrocuted by dropping a running hairdryer into a bathtub full of water.
I'm not clear on why he can't do both, even simultaneously. The NCAA's language on maintaining your amateur status clearly contemplates and restricts amateurs from receiving payments from the professional equivalent of the amateur sport, e.g., collge football to NFL, and so on. The language is also concerned with payments from "teams" and "agents," which aren't applicable here, at least in an obvious way. The NCAA's language also contemplates possible circumvention, which is why they prohibit receiving payments (real or in-kind) to "offset training expenses," but it's not immediately clear to me how that's applicable here either.
Tag team to start and then gable works his way up to a wwe title.
I think it's far more likely he's back for another season, WWE or no. The article in the OP, and thus also this thread's headline, is nothing more than speculation.
I rarely decline the chance to not use double-negatives, when plainer language is readily available.
And to clarify here, further to the question of an exclusivity clause, the WWE's primary concern in requiring exclusivity is its competitors, and the NCAA isn't a competitor. Doing both WWE and school wouldn't necessarily be a deal-breaker for the WWE (but I agree with @johnstownsteel, they'd probably bring him along slowly), but doing MMA and the WWE probably would b/c the WWE likely views the UFC as a competitor.
Is professional wrestling physically demanding? Sure. But if Steveson suffers an injury serious enough to keep him from wrestling "professionally," he's probably got bigger problems than a lost opportunity. As for college losses, that's just not how guys as good as Steveson think, they're always going to bet on themselves. I don't see anyone in college beating him again unless he just stops training entirely and tries to coast, but anything could happen.
Understand but would think that type of contract would end once he leaves college and ready to go WWE full time. Then they do his next contract. They could build a great story line in the next year and Gable would never even need to be on the mat. Gable telling all the current WWE stars that he’s going to destroy them all when he gets there and that the champ is holding HIS belt. The wrestlers coming back with, you’re a punk that beats up on college kids and Russians and foreigners not man enough to wrestle in the WWE. They could jaw at each other every show and it would make a good show. I think I may actually tune in to laugh at that. Hell… if he did get hurt then in college there would be all kinds “outs” the WWE could take until Gable is healthy and ready to hit the mat or drop him altogether if he took a bad loss in college. I’m just spitballing here tho. I don’t know what they are planning to do together if anything.
That was thing, when I was looking into it, all the articles I read cited Meltzer as their source but no where could I find him reporting it. That was a couple days ago so maybe now you can find somewhere of him reporting it. Hell, dont even see a quit mention of it in his twitter feed.
F4Wonline is reporting that Dave said it, and he owns that site. A lot of their stuff is behind a paywall, including his radio show, so maybe that is why you can't find it. Regardless, if he was this widely misquoted, he would have refuted it by now.
