Former WWE star and Olympic Gold Medalist Gable Steveson has signed a multi-match cope with Real American Freestyle Wrestling.
Steveson won gold on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in heavyweight freestyle wrestling, signing a WWE NIL deal that very same 12 months, after carving a collegiate wrestling profession yielding two gold, one silver, and one bronze within the NCAA Division I Championships – winning in 2021 and 2022, ending third in his freshman 12 months of 2019, and returning to compete and claim silver in 2025 following his WWE departure in 2024.
And having spent his post-WWE profession notching a 3-0 record in MMA and a 1-0 record in Jon Jones’ Dirty Boxing, Jones being a detailed friend and mentor to him, there had been some questions as to what his next steps could be.
Eric Bischoff’s Real American Freestyle then announced that Steveson had signed on to compete at RAF 09 in Dallas, Texas, on May 30. Ariel Helwani reported that Steveson had signed a multi-match cope with RAF and while his first opponent is yet to be determined, the promotion is targeting some big names to face him.
Gable Steveson at RAF09.
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Wyatt Hendrickson, the reigning RAF Heavyweight Champion, was actually the person to finish the 70-match winning streak of Steveson within the NCAA Championship final in 2025. RAF was initially scheduled to be Bahrain, but moved closer to home with the continued conflict throughout the Middle-East. As of the time of writing, nothing is further known concerning the RAF card and who might be involved.