El Grande Americano has become one of AAA’s standout characters over the past year. Chad Gable originally portrayed the role, but after he went down with a serious shoulder injury, Ludwig Kaiser stepped in and carried the gimmick forward.
Gable eventually returned and resumed the mask, leading to a Mask vs. Mask match between the two versions of El Grande Americano. Gable lost the bout and has since tried to repair relationships with several luchadors he clashed with during the storyline.
During an interview with WittyWhittier, Gable said the concept behind El Grande Americano came from him. He explained that he wanted to add more depth to the story he was already involved in with the luchadors.
“Funny how this business works, wrestling itself, you never know what’s going to work out, what’s not going to work out, what’s going to surprise us, and what people are going to really latch on to. I think that’s been the story of the last year and a half or two years. The El Grande Americano thing started just as me wanting to put more into a story that I was already involved with these luchadors, and I wanted to take it to another level.
This was my idea of donning this mask and my way to try to elevate this story, not knowing where it was going to take me career-wise. You never really can predict stuff like that. Then on top of that, the injuries. For those that don’t know, I had a shoulder surgery, rotator cuff was torn, bicep tendon, all kinds of stuff that I had to have repaired, that forced me to go away.
Again, it’s circumstantial. Who knows where we’d be right now if all of these elements had not just turned out the way they did. Somebody else took over the El Grande Americano gimmick, and they were doing it while I was hurt. I come back. Now we’ve got a built-in story there. It is like you said, a bit of an odyssey and a journey we had to go through. I would call it valleys and peaks and lows and things like that to get here. But now, where I’m at, it’s almost like, man, I couldn’t have written it any better than it turned out.”
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