AEW Superstar Adam Cole was a guest on “Talk Is Jericho” and commented on one of his last conversations with Vince McMahon, creative ideas on his main roster move-up (had he stayed with WWE) and more. You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
Adam Cole on his conversation with Vince McMahon prior to leaving WWE: “I did have a meeting with Vince that went really well. It was like a 30-minute conversation which was cool. I’ve only talked to him for maybe like two or three minutes prior to that. I got to work the Survivor Series event, and he wanted to talk to us afterward. He was really happy with the match, but no real conversation with him before, so that was the first time. It was really cool. He was very complimentary and very nice. The idea was for me to go to RAW or SmackDown and not stay in NXT, just because I had been there for so long, and I think they knew, as much as I do love NXT, I was ready if I stayed in WWE to take that step. That was kind of the gist of the conversation. It was definitely to move me up to RAW or SmackDown.”
On the plans discussed for what he would do on RAW or SmackDown: “Apparently, there were a lot of ideas, but they were very vague on what exactly they wanted to do. This was interesting too is, I remember when I first had the conversation, they mentioned something about, ‘Maybe we’ll do a name change, or maybe we’ll change your look a little bit’, so that scared me a little bit. I just spent 14 years as Adam Cole. In our latest conversation, they were definitely more open to me being me and being myself and stuff like that. They could tell I was not too thrilled about the idea.”
