Gable 2028

[dragit]

2 hours ago, GrandOlm said:

I just thought the the celebrity worship (because he was successful in wrestling that means he belongs to some "athlete super class" and he will extremely successful in everything else he tries) was delusional and that success in WWE has little to no crossover with wrestling. I also thought he was not a good candidate for becoming a pro football player. 

I don't think you can trumpet his football accomplishments as some great achievement. A NFL coach who was a wrestling fan invited him to the practice squad. He was cut, since he had no chance. That's just favoritism giving someone a cool memory. Ghadaffi's son was a pro football players in Serie A in a round about way as well.  

Correct. To be blunt he was plainly unsuccessful in both WWE and football.  He is the best in the world at one sport.  Like everyone else in history other than maybe Jim Thorpe or Jackie Robinson, that doesn't mean he will be any good at any other sport.  And there's no particular reason to think he'll be great at UFC (although he probably has a better chance there than the other two). 

But I will recite for the record as always that he is free to choose to be not great, or even not good, at whatever he wants.  He will always be a memorable Olympic champion regardless. 

[AgaveMaria]

Yes, he made his choices and "mailing it in" is not something we like to see.

Let him rassle - the fake crap fits what we are seeing now.

[LJB]

i think is adorable how anonymous forum nerds question a legit athlete's choices...

 

it will never not amuse me...