During a recent guest spot on the “Gorilla Position” podcast, Chad Gable shared that the decision to turn heel after WrestleMania 40 was actually his own.
Gable went into detail about the pivotal incident where he betrayed Sami Zayn after suffering a defeat in the competition for the Intercontinental Title, which took place on the WWE RAW episode aired on April 8th.
Gable expressed, “The whole idea to turn heel was kind of my idea. I felt like I flatlined as a babyface somewhere around WrestleMania. I came up short against Gunther a few times. Came up short against Sami. At a certain point, something has to change, or people are not going to buy into you any further. I had the idea, ‘Let’s do it,’ it just so happened we were going to be in Montreal, Sami’s hometown, the week after Mania when I was having that match. I was like, ‘there could not be a better place to do this thing.’ We made it happen and the stars aligned. I feel like it’s worked out in our favor. Since then, Otis is this perfect sympathetic guy that you can’t help buy feel bad for. We have everything in our favor working for us.”
Still, despite a successful heel turn, Gable has failed in his attempts to claim a victory over Zayn for the title. He experienced another loss at the hands of his power rival at WWE Clash At The Castle: Scotland.