Adam Cole arrived in AEW at All Out 2021, and he recently looked back at his debut on the show. Cole spoke with Q101 and talked about how the moment was one of his favorite in his career to date, recalling the day leading up to his appearance.
“I was flown into Milwaukee instead of Chicago, so I stayed at a hotel that was about an hour and a half away from the venue,” Cole said (per Wrestling Inc). “I got picked up, taken to the show as the show was already going on and me, and Bryan Danielson were taken to a trailer outside the building, so very few people, like including the talent, knew that we were even there.”
He continued, “Kenny Omega is on the microphone and still no one had grabbed me yet. So I start panicking a little bit and I’m like, ‘Oh, no one’s here, did they forget? What’s going on?’ But no one forgot, they came up and grabbed me. Being in front of an AEW audience for the first time was surreal and just one of my favorite moments of my entire career.”
Cole was out with injury for much of 2024 but made his return at AEW WrestleDream in October.
