Adam Cole looks on during a match on NXT (WWE)
Adam Cole rejected the new WWE look ahead of the main roster move
In one of WWE’s pitches, Adam Cole involved cutting his hair short of having a new look on the main roster according to Fightful (h/t Cagesideseats), to which Cole was not interested at all.
After the end of the contract for Cole with WWE, McMahon wanted Cole to have a completely new look if he wanted to get into the main roster. He has been an NXT star for quite a while now, but he didn’t like all these and chose a different direction of AEW, He made his debut at AEW All Out.
Adam Cole has been a top star in NXT for years and is one of the most talented wrestlers in the current time, but due to WWE’s poor booking, they lost this top star.
Cole was a hot topic being a free agent and was surrounded by a lot of rumors related to his future path, whether he will re-sign with WWE or will he choose a different promotion like AEW, we all know what he did, but there was a plan which WWE pitched to him.
According to Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer (h/t Cage side seats), The idea was to turn WWE star Keith Lee into a heel, make Adam Cole his manager, and maybe with a different name like Bobby Lashley and Rush. It was more of a dynamic thing but more as a manager than a wrestler.
“They were going to bring him up. The idea was to turn Keith Lee heel, have Adam Cole be his manager. Probably with a different name because of the last name Cole…kind of like a Lio Rush / Bobby Lashley thing, where you have this little guy who is a big talker, and he hides behind this big massive African American guy.”
“That was kind of the dynamic that they were looking for him, more as a manager [than] a wrestler.”
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