Chad Gable
Gable in 2025 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Charles Edward Betts March 8, 1986 Saint Michael, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Alma mater | |
Spouse |
Kristi Oliver (m. 2011) |
| Children | 3 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Chad Gable Chas Betts Shorty G Shorty Gable El Grande Americano (I) |
| Billed height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) |
| Billed weight | 202 lb (92 kg) |
| Billed from | Minneapolis, Minnesota Gulf of Mexico Gulf of America |
| Trained by | Arik Cannon Mike Quackenbush |
| Debut | September 8, 2003 |
Charles Edward Betts (born March 8, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since 2013 where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Chad Gable. He also portrays the original incarnation of the masked luchador El Grande Americano.
A prolific amateur wrestler who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Betts signed with WWE in late 2013 and tested training before he was deployed to WWE's developmental branch, NXT. Working as a tag team wrestler, he won the NXT Tag Team Championship with his partner Jason Jordan as American Alpha, before being called up to the main roster in 2016, where they won the SmackDown Tag Team Championship before disbanding in mid-2017. He formed a tag team with Shelton Benjamin before being traded to Raw in the 2018 Superstar Shake-up and then forming a team with Bobby Roode, winning the Raw Tag Team Championship with him in December 2018. With this win, he became the second man (after Jordan) to have won the NXT, SmackDown, and Raw Tag Team Championships. In January 2022, Gable won the Raw Tag Team Championship for a second time with Alpha Academy tag partner, Otis. In early 2025, he began simultaneously portraying the masked luchador El Grande Americano. Under this persona, he would win his first singles championship, the WWE Speed Championship. Due to injury, Ludwig Kaiser took over the role of Americano on June 30, 2025; Gable returned as Americano on January 31, 2026, where he was referred to as the "original El Grande Americano" and confronted Kaiser's version.