Penta Almost Ended WWE Star’s Career With Botched Move
Penta, Chad Gable, and Dragon Lee competed in an intense triple threat match this week on Raw.
The trio competed for a spot in the Money in the Bank match on June 7. Solo Sikoa and LA Knight had already qualified.
The match saw El Hijo Del Vikingo of AAA interfering in the closing minutes of the match, kicking Gable on the head, leaving him bloodied.
However, the most notorious moment came when Penta attempted two different moves at the same time while holding both of his opponents.
In what looked like a botched move, Gable ended up on his face with Penta’s full weight on his neck.
Gable was seen right away grabbing his face in pain and rolling out of the ring.
Penta ultimately won the match, securing his place in the men’s MITB match.
Stevie Richards Analyzes Penta’s Botch
Former WWE star Stevie Richards analyzed the botched move on his YouTube channel, The Stevie Richards Show.
Richards is known for similar assessments under titles such as “What Went Wrong” or “Botch Watch.”
Chad Gable is so amazingly fortunate and lucky, and I’m sure he has huge traps. He trained in amateur wrestling; that could have a lot to do with it. But still, this is even beyond one of the botch watches, which we have appear on YouTube.
Richards played the video from Raw, scrutinizing it frame by frame.
What are you trying to do with all this stuff? This is crazy. This is almost, I hate to say it because we’re not trying to make fun of …this is beyond even an AEW-level spot. This makes no sense whatsoever.
At one point, the wrestling veteran even sarcastically said that Penta was trying to “kill Chad Gable.” Meanwhile, he emphasized that the leader of American Made could have broken his C1 vertebra and suffered a severed spinal cord injury. A similar injury has left Big E out of action for the past three years, and his wrestling career may be over.
Chad Gable is set to face El Hijo del Vikingo at the 2025 Worlds Collide event on June 7.