Adam Cole recently spoke with PennLive.com to discuss a variety of topics, including the various injuries he’s suffered over the last few years.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On dealing with his health issues over the past couple years: “It really does encompass such a wild two years. Getting the back-to-back concussions and then being out for nine months and not being sure if I was going to be cleared to come back, that was incredibly stressful.”
On suffering his his ankle injury after the concussions: “(I woke) up four hours later [after the injury] and the first thing I’m told is, ‘Your ankle is way worse than we thought. You have to get another surgery in seven days.’ I was just soul crushed… The concussion was scarier, but the ankle was more difficult. It was really, really tough.”
On refusing to accept that his career might be over: “I just mentally was not at a place at all where I was ready to accept that. I love this so, so much. Through the concussion and through the ankle, there was never a point where I thought, ‘maybe I should stop.’ I was so determined and so focused to say, ‘No, no, I’ve got to get back out there. I’ve got to do what I love to do for a little while longer.’ I definitely never for a second thought, ‘Okay, this is it.’ I thought, ‘How do I get back?’”
On his in-ring return in October: “It was such a combination of being so elated and so excited to be able to get back in the ring after my longest hiatus. Very excited, very grateful for that, but also so nervous. This job does require a lot whether it’s the pressure or the athleticism. But yeah, I was petrified. I was really, really nervous about getting through it, but I’m thankful that I got through it.”
On Dynamite taking place in his home area: “Absolutely extra special. I’ve gone to so many shows in Pennsylvania as a fan. I trained and started my career in Pennsylvania. Anytime you get to wrestle close to home is always really, really cool.”
Diamond Dallas Page says Cody Rhodes ran the show at the original All In pay-per-view event back in 2018.
During a recent virtual signing for Highspots Superstore, DDP commented on the work Rhodes put in to create what would eventually become All Elite Wrestling. He said,
“You know what was so cool [at All In] was that Cody is back there, and he’s literally running the show, just like his old man. No one knew where it was going at that time. He was like I don’t know if I’ll ever get back to this spot ever again. I just want everybody to have fun.”
He continued, “It was so cool to have been there. To be able to see that and how much fun he had back there doing it, that’s something he may go on to do, I don’t know.”
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