Chad Gable Shares That Brodie Lee Sent Him Encouraging Text Message During WWE Run As ‘Shorty G’

During his run as Shorty G, Brodie Lee reached out to him.

In the year 2019, Chad Gable was repackaged in WWE as ‘Shorty G.’ He dropped the name in 2020.

Gable previously described that period of his career as a low point. While speaking to Cody Rhodes on the What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast, Gable recalled receiving an encouraging text during that period of his career from the late Jon Huber a.k.a. Brodie Lee/Luke Harper. Gable also recounted how kind Huber was to him.

“I felt boxed in. I think I put on the face of, this could work. We can make this work, and I tried. I don’t wanna pretend like I had phoned it in. I think deep down I knew, man, this might be a killer. This could be the nail in the coffin. I had a very encouraging text from one Luke Harper after the first promo I did when I essentially named myself Shorty G. That was super encouraging from a guy like that because that was a low point for sure, referring to myself as that. But he made me feel as good as I could have about it and I will never forget that, and I mean it was immediate afterwards. Took a lot of the stress off of me.” Gable continued, “I would say there’s a few people both in NXT and on the main roster when I got to both places that were, what I say is unnecessarily awesome to me, and he was one of them on the main roster from the moment I got up.” Gable added, “You can find some clips of him trying to shoot with me in some Battle Royals. Yeah, we should dig ‘em up. They’re pretty good. He gave it his best shot,” Gable laughed.

Gable is now gunning for his first singles title in WWE. He’ll be challenging Penta for the Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam.

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