Chad Gable is running Chris Jericho’s WCW playbook—and it’s working just as well.

An American vs. a German pretending to be American became the biggest story in Mexico this weekend—and somehow, it worked.That’s not an accident. That’s what happens when a great wrestler fully commits to something that should fail and turns it into something people can’t ignore.Chad Gable just proved he can do what Chris Jericho did in 1998—take a throwaway idea and force people to care. Now the question isn’t whether he’s over. It’s whether WWE will recognize what they have.

By Jason Griffith for PeeDeeWire

Yahoo Sports reports: An American vs. a German pretending to be American became the biggest story in Mexico this weekend—and somehow, it worked.That’s not an accident. That’s what happens when a great wrestler fully commits to something that should fail and turns it into something people can’t ignore.Chad Gable just proved he can do what Chris Jericho did in 1998—take a throwaway idea and force people to care. Now the question isn’t whether he’s over. It’s whether WWE will recognize what they have.