Gabriel Sapolsky was born on September 26,1972 and is an American professional wrestling promoter, creative writer, and booker who currently works for WWE.
25 Facts About Gabe Sapolsky
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Gabe Sapolsky has held various creative and marketing positions in the professional wrestling industry, notably as Paul Heyman's personal assistant with Extreme Championship Wrestling, the co-founder and head of talent relations at Ring of Honor, the vice-president of Dragon Gate USA, vice-president of talent relations, creative and marketing of the World Wrestling Network and creative writer and founder of EVOLVE.
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Gabe Sapolsky worked in a booking capacity for various other promotions including Full Impact Pro and Style Battle, as well as for special events like the WWN Supershow and the Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup.
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Gabe Sapolsky attended Runkle Elementary School, and later Brookline High School, graduating in 1990.
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Gabe Sapolsky began his career with Extreme Championship Wrestling writing a company newsletter, known as The ECW Action Wire, in September 1993.
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Gabe Sapolsky was hired full-time shortly after graduating from Temple University, about the same time that ECW opened its first office in Philadelphia.
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Gabe Sapolsky became a protege of Paul Heyman and handled many different responsibilities, including marketing, promoting and public relations throughout his tenure with the company.
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Gabe Sapolsky worked the "fan cam" and filmed most ECW events on a camcorder at ringside.
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Gabe Sapolsky became an official RF Video employee in 2001, shortly after ECW closed.
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Gabe Sapolsky took over editing and writing the RF Video Mail Order Catalog and website after ECW.
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In 2002, Gabe Sapolsky co-founded Ring of Honor with RF Video owner Rob Feinstein and employee Doug Gentry.
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Gabe Sapolsky developed the unique booking style of ROH, which included The Code Of Honor.
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Gabe Sapolsky was the booker for Full Impact Pro, an independent promotion in Florida that used to be the sister promotion of ROH.
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Gabe Sapolsky used aliases Jimmy Bower and Matt Pike when he filled in on commentary.
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On October 26,2008, ROH made an announcement stating that Gabe Sapolsky was no longer working there.
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In early 2010, Gabe Sapolsky co-founded EVOLVE along with WWN COO, Sal Hamaoui.
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Gabe Sapolsky was instrumental in putting together the first WrestleCon in 2013, which featured multiple wrestling shows and a convention.
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Gabe Sapolsky was part of bringing WWN on a two week tour of China in 2014.
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Gabe Sapolsky then began to broker a relationship between World Wrestling Entertainment and EVOLVE.
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Gabe Sapolsky began working as a creative consultant with WWE in January of 2016.
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Gabe Sapolsky became part of Triple H's team in NXT.
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Gabe Sapolsky worked on the NXT TV shows, NXT Takeover, talent scouting and talent development.
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On January 6,2022, Gabe Sapolsky was released by WWE when WWE released several members of Levesque's team.
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Gabe Sapolsky has been featured in numerous interviews, podcasts and video features.
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Gabe Sapolsky has been featured on the WWE DVD and network releases of My Name Is Paul Heyman and Journey to Summerslam: The Destruction of The Shield, featuring former mentor Heyman, and former DGUSA and ROH talent in Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins.