Adam Cole Says He Had A ‘Great’ Conversation With Vince McMahon Before Leaving WWE

Adam Cole made his debut for AEW at All Out last night, joining the Elite before getting interrupted by Bryan Danielson. During a post-show media scrum (via Fightful), Cole spoke about the conversation he had with Vince McMahon prior to his WWE exit and what it’s like working with Tony Khan.

He said: “The talk went great. We had a really, really good conversation, about a lot of different things, but the actual conversation itself was awesome. I had no bad experience with him whatsoever. He is an intimidating man that definitely commands respect in a lot of ways. But the experience itself was totally fine. Working and being around Tony is so cool for so many different reasons, but the biggest one is how contagious his love for wrestling is. I know that I love pro wrestling, but you can’t help, but be more excited and more ready to go and more fired up when you’re around Tony, I feel like I can go and talk to Tony about anything. I’m not just saying this because he’s sitting here, I say this to everybody, but Tony is an amazing, amazing person.”

AEW All Out also featured Kenny Omega defeating Impact Wrestling Champion Christian Cage in the main event to retain the AEW World Championship, Chris Jericho defeating MJF, and the AEW debut of another former WWE star, Ruby Soho. Many are already calling the show one of the greatest in the history of professional wrestling. Check out our complete AEW All Out results for the rest of the results. This sets up a highly anticipated episode of AEW Dynamite on Wednesday and raises the question of how WWE will respond on WWE television (Smackdown and WWE RAW) after countering CM Punk debuting on AEW Rampage with Brock Lesnar returning at Summerslam. Cole said after All Out that he himself was surprised when he realized his WWE contract was expiring as soon as it did, paving the way for a new deal with AEW.