Gable Steveson led to Twitter Saturday morning to announce that he signed a contract, but did not reveal who.
According to Wrestling Observer, the former NCAA champion and Olympic gold medalist signed with the WWE and met with WWE President Vince McMahon at last month’s SummerSlam pay-per-view.
No start date or details have been announced and it is not known if it will end at the University of Minnesota. Steveson is twice American and has won two Big Ten titles with the school.
And he took the gold at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first American heavyweight to win the men’s 125kg freestyle event since 1992. Steveson turned what appeared to be a certain defeat into a victory. getting a final knockout with a half second in the game. He celebrated it with a backflip.
“It was an emotional roller coaster,” Steveson said Sports Illustrated during an August interview. “Very quickly, I had so many thoughts running through my head. When I lost, I remembered that I hadn’t gotten that far to finish second. I went to Japan to bring gold. So I put my heart out there and I followed my instincts and luckily it worked. “
He told SI that if he ever went to WWE, “he would be a” Paul Heyman man. “
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