Uncrowned<\/a> interview that it just wasn\u2019t the right time for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n“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 great to see him and Stephanie (McMahon) backstage. Everything is good. There’s no hard feelings on my end.<\/p>\n
“They knew at the time I wanted to keep being competitive and it was just a little bump in the road. It happens.”<\/p>\n
So he tried the NFL and signed with the Buffalo Bills. This was the first time that Gable has ever played any professional football. So it wasn\u2019t a particular surprise when he was released during preseason. The former WWE star has been quiet ever since. Him jumping ship over to MMA wasn\u2019t a surprise as he immediately started training with Jon Jones and an MMA team.<\/p>\n
His opponent is Braden Peterson, a man with a 1 – 0 record. He\u2019s a relative newcomer who scored an impressive knockout back in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no telling how well Gable will do in his upcoming fight, but all eyes will surely be on him. It\u2019s not unheard of for an Olympian turning to MMA as Daniel Cormier, Ronda Rousey, and Henry Cejudo are some of the more popular names who competed in the Olympics. It\u2019s quite possible that Gable can be another great. We\u2019ll just have to see on September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gable Stevenson is going to be an MMA fighter. The former WWE star will trade the squared circle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,61981,785,85,14064],"class_list":["post-81879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-gable-stevenson","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}