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Chad Gable never expected that putting on a mask would spark a full-blown identity war, but it turns out the entire concept was actually his own idea from the start. During a recent interview with WittyWhittier, Gable revealed that he pitched the El Grande Americano character himself while working a storyline involving luchadors, simply wanting to add another layer to it. He debuted the masked character back in March 2025, though things quickly got complicated when he suffered a serious shoulder injury. While Gable recovered, Ludwig Kaiser stepped in and took over the mask, leading to a strange situation where two people played the same character at once. When Gable returned during the 2026 Royal Rumble, WWE had the perfect built-in rivalry ready to go – El Grande Americano vs. El Grande Americano. That feud eventually reached its climax at AAA Noche de Los Grandes, where Gable lost the Mask vs Mask match and was finally unmasked, bringing his version of the story full circle. Looking back, Gable admitted he could not have scripted it better himself, even with all the twists along the way. During a recent interview with “Inside The Ropes,” Kevin Nash opened up about grief, aging, and personal change, and his words paint a picture of a man dealing with heavy loss. Nash admitted that even though he knew Hulk Hogan was mortal, part of him never actually pictured Terry Bollea dying, since Hogan spent decades being called ‘The Immortal’ on television. Nash said he still catches himself wanting to tease Hogan out of habit before remembering he is gone, and that adjustment has been strange for him. When talk turned to Scott Hall, Nash was even more direct, saying he will never fully get over losing his best friend, since their bond went far deeper than wrestling storylines. With both Hall and Hogan gone, Nash pointed out that he is now the only surviving member of the original three-man NWO lineup, a group that turns 30 years old this coming July, and he noted that roughly 80 percent of the people in his old stories are no longer alive. Beyond grief, Nash also shared how getting older pushed him toward major personal change, revealing that he quit drinking two years ago after deciding it was time to stop lying to himself. However, he joked that his liver still has not forgiven him for the years before that. Nash also looked back at his infamous 2012 online feud with The Ultimate Warrior, where he publicly challenged Warrior to a real $100,000 MMA fight after Warrior mocked him online. Interestingly, Nash confirmed the whole thing was simply an angle meant to get a reaction rather than a real fight offer. Nash said Warrior took it far too seriously, spending days crafting a lengthy video response, while Nash’s actual challenge took him only thirty seconds to write, and he joked that the two of them could have cashed in on a worked celebrity fight years before that trend became popular. The two eventually made peace before Warrior passed away in 2014.