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When Gable Steveson rallied in the waning seconds of his super heavyweight match with Geno Petriashvili at the 2020 Summer Olympics, captured gold in freestyle wrestling at the age of 21 and celebrated with a spectacular version of his trademark backflip, it was clear there would be interest from the combat sports world in a young man who was named after Dan Gable.