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.
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Date: 09 March 1986
International A compromise with Congress on aid for the Nicaraguan rebels is now sought by the Reagan Administration, which faces defeat on Capitol Hill over its $100 million proposal for the anti-Sandinistas. However, the Administration's intense public campaign to win support for the program was continued by President Reagan in his weekly radio speech. [ Page 1, Column 1. ]
Date: 08 March 1986
International A cut in Soviet-bloc missions to the United Nations was ordered by the Reagan Administration. The Soviet, Ukranian and Byelorussian missions were ordered to reduce their staff by 38 percent. The Administration accused them of espionage and said the size of their missions was ''a threat to national security.'' [ Page 1, Col. 1. ] South Africa's emergency decree was rescinded and the Government announced the release of what it said were the last 327 of almost 8,000 people detained since last July 21, when the state of emergency was declared. The police may still detain people without charge and search their premises, but the security legislation that enables them to do so is said by police officers to require more bureaucratic procedures than the emergency decree. [ 1:2. ]
Date: 09 March 1986
By John Corry
John Corry
How far can, and should, television go in presenting a Soviet, or anti-democratic, anti-United States position? The question will not go away; it is constantly resurrected. The networks grow increasingly supranational, roaming the world like sovereign powers. Journalism and self-interest clash; expedience and opportunity play a part. It is unlikely, for example, that ABC News would have put a Communist functionary in Moscow on the air to rebut President Reagan's recent speech on military spending if ABC News had not been all over Moscow in the first place, covering the Communist Party Congress. Even Roone Arledge, the president of ABC News, was there. Television news is egocentric, and ABC News presumably thought that because it was in Moscow, the center of journalistic gravity and urgency had to be there, too. Ergo, ABC allowed Vladimir Posner, a party spokesman, to criticize Mr. Reagan as ''dishonest'' on a domestic American issue.
Date: 08 March 1986
Special to the New York Times
South Africa ordered the expulsion today of three representatives of CBS News, one of them an American. The action came after the network broadcast videotape footage this week of a mass funeral in a township near Johannesburg from which television cameras had been formally banned. The expulsion order, effective Tuesday, was by far the most drastic action against a foreign news organization in years and was viewed here as certain to be interpreted as a warning to others that they might also be expelled by the authorities. The expulsion coincided with the formal lifting of restrictions on television coverage of South Africa's unrest imposed in a seven-month emergency decree. [ In New York, CBS issued a protest, saying it was studying the expulsion order and intended ''to utilize all appropriate avenues of appeal.'' ] Those ordered to leave the country by Tuesday were Allen Pizzey, a reporter and Canadian national ordinarily based in Athens; William Mutschmann, an American who is manager of the CBS bureau here, and Wim de Vos, a cameraman and Dutch national who has lived in South Africa for 11 years.
Date: 08 March 1986
AP
A dozen broadcast and journalism organizations have asked a Federal appeals court to order the Federal Communications Commission to stop enforcing rules requiring fairness on the air. Led by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, the groups also ask that the F. C. C.'s Fairness Doctrine be eliminated. A brief was filed Thursday .
Date: 08 March 1986
By Linda Amster
Linda Amster
Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 50. 1. The man in the center of this photograph, taken in 1943 in Yugoslavia, says its recent release, and the release of related documents, were meant to embarrass him at a crucial time. Identify him and explain. 2. The deliberate omission of an important amenity at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, nearing completion after 20 years of planning and a budget that grew to $486 million, is expected to create major problems for prospective exhibitors and visitors. What is missing, and why? 3. Several members of the President's Commission on Organized Crime said they were never shown the final version of a commission report and were surprised and upset with one of its recommendations. What recommendation was it? 4. Unlike the characters in the author's 103 juvenile books, the hero and heroine of ''Mabel Parker; or, The Hidden Treasure,'' an adult novel that was written more than 100 years ago and will be published for the first time this summer, refuse to equate wealth with happiness. Identify the author. 5. The White House will employ a legal procedure, an interpleader, in the dispute over the contents and ownership of the possessions flown to Hawaii last week by former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines and his associates. What is an interpleader? 6. The Harlem Globetrotters and the Ice Capades will share a similar fate.
Date: 08 March 1986
By Gordon S. White Jr., Special To the New York Times
Gordon White
The PGA Tour has notified Mac O'Grady that it intends to take disciplinary action against him once again for ''conduct unbecoming a professional'' as a result of statements attributed to the outspoken golfer in recent newspaper reports. The action could be a fine or a suspension, although Commissioner Deane Beman declined to say what the penalty might be. O'Grady has been disciplined by the tour twice before, including a $500 fine one year ago for what officials said were discourteous remarks to a tournament committee volunteer. He was notified of the latest action Wednesday and has 30 days from then to appeal. His attorney, Steve Novak of San Diego, said today he would represent the California golfer in an appeal.
Date: 08 March 1986
Questions appear on page 33. 1. The photograph is of Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary General of the United Nations, who is now a candidate for the presidency of Austria. It and the documents indicate that Mr. Waldheim was attached to a German Army command in World War II that fought brutal campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and engaged in mass deportations of Greek Jews. 2. There are no parking facilities because a 1980 environmental report said more parking would attract more cars to midtown Manhattan, aggravating air pollution and congestion. 3. A recommendation for a widespread national program to test most working Americans for drug abuse. 4. Horatio Alger Jr. 5. A procedure in which someone who holds something claimed by other parties asks a court to resolve the matter. 6. Metromedia Inc. sold them to the International Broadcasting Company. 7. Mr. Bennett and Mr. Reagan recited alternating lines of ''The Cremation of Sam McGee,'' by Robert W. Service, in a tribute to the educational values of memorization. 8. They are suing their spouses, who are in nursing homes, because state law provides that such support payments cannot be included by Medicaid when it calculates how much of a couple's assets and retirement income can be taken to pay for nursing home care. 9. 20 to 25. 10. Willie Mays. 11. Mr. Whipple, the director emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory, was the first scientist to suggest that cores of comets were largely made up of ice. 12.
Date: 09 March 1986
Special to the New York Times
Dozens of Harvard women found their way this week to a suburban Holiday Inn where a photographer from Playboy magazine took Polaroid snapshots of them, clothed, and asked them to fill out applications listing their hobbies, academic majors and measurements. The magazine was recruiting candidates for its ''Women of the Ivy League'' feature, to be published in October. In the process, it kicked off a Ivy League-wide debate on the effects of pornography and on the responsibilities of student newspapers. The Harvard Crimson refused to print a Playboy advertisement for the recruiting sessions conducted by David Chan, a staff photographer for the magazine. ''The editorial meeting was held a week after we received the ad,'' said Joseph S. Kahn, president of The Crimson. ''After three hours of debate, we decided to reject the ad on the grounds that Playboy and the advertisement degrade women, and we at The Crimson did not want to aid the degradation by printing the ad.''
Date: 09 March 1986
By Henry Kamm, Special To the New York Times
Henry Kamm
A close aide to Shimon Peres put the Israeli Prime Minister's position on President Reagan's ''Star Wars'' missile-defense program in unequivocal terms. ''If Reagan had not come up with S.D.I. for any other reason, he should have done it for Shimon Peres alone,'' said the aide, using the initials for the Strategic Defense Initiative, as the ''Star Wars'' program is officially known. Though controversy surrounds ''Star Wars'' in the United States and in other countries that have been invited by the Pentagon to take part in the program, there is no discernible debate in Israel over the desirability of taking part.