During a recent appearance on the “Q101” podcast, Adam Cole discussed managing his recent injury and coping with the mental aspects of the time off.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the toughest part of his recent injury layoff: “Without question the mental part [was the toughest during his time away due to injury]. Don’t get me wrong, there were certainly physical challenges, both with the concussion and then definitely with the ankle injury. Not being able to walk or get around, obviously, is soul-crushing. Obviously, it’s painful going through rehab and therapy and stuff like that. But, mentally, it was the hardest part. The past two years have been an uphill battle. To come back from that concussion injury, be back for six months, rocking and rolling and ready to go, and then for this freak accident to happen, mentally it was definitely really, really tough.”
On not being the young blue chipper in the locker room anymore: “I’m meeting people or talking to very talented wrestlers who were like, ‘I was there in the Hammerstein Ballroom when you wrestled Kyle O’Reilly in 2012, I was there as a fan,’ and that’s so, so wild to me. I try not to think about it too much because I do think, hopefully, I have a long career ahead of me, at least that is the plan. But it is cool now to have been around for a while and being able to help the young guys or talk to the young guys, while at the same time, knowing I have a lot of my career left. But it is weird to think, ‘Oh, I’m not the young blue chipper anymore.’”
During a recent appearance on the “CHGO Wrestling” podcast, Ricochet discussed the 2024 AEW Continental Classic, which kicks off later tonight on AEW Dynamite.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the AEW Continental Classic: “It’s funny because even just with my matches in general, maybe even Ospreay’s matches in general, it’s like people either really, really like them, or they hate them [laughs]. There’s no, ‘It was okay.’ It’s either, ‘That was awesome,’ or, ‘That sucked.’ But I think that’s awesome, I love that. But the Continental Classic, I think we have a lot of possibilities in this, and it’s really kind of uncertain because in our league, the Gold League, you have so many guys who stand out, and then in the Blue League, you have so many guys who can also stand out.”
On his expectations for the tournament: “I think it’s gonna be exciting, man. The Continental Classic was another thing that I wanted to be a part of, coming to AEW, from seeing it last year, and everyone knows, Ricochet’s pretty good at tournaments, I’m pretty good at tournaments, so this is just another tournament, along with Battle of Los Angeles, Best of Super Junior, Dragon Gate’s King of Gate, I could just keep going on tournaments that I’ve won. So this is just gonna be another achievement on the long list of achievements that Ricochet has.”
