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Adam Cole

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Adam Cole calls Shawn Michaels the greatest in‑ring performer of all time, and he celebrates the excitement of ROH championship matches that fans love. He also mentions his close friendship with Kevin Owens, who helps him both in the ring and outside it.

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Austin Kirk Jenkins, known by the ring name Adam Cole, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Paragon. He is also known for his tenures with WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH).

Quotes by Adam Cole

I can't say enough good things about Matt Hardy.

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I'm really close with Sami Zayn.

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I'm a very shy, introverted person.

Introvert

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I loved working with Jim Cornette.

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It's a really cool time to be a wrestling fan.

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You don't make a statement unless you make noise.

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Ring of Honor is my home.

Home

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I think it's cool that people care so much where I'm going to end up or what I'm going to do.

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Nothing turned the NXT Universe upside down like The Undisputed Era's debut.

Era

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My grandmother was one of the most loving, caring, and supportive people I've ever met.

Caring

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There's no better way to start a year than to become the first-ever three-time ROH World Champion.

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Wrestling in the Midwest is always such a blast, and a favorite place of mine.

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The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

Fantastic

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There are good wrestling journalists and bad wrestling journalists. That's for sure.

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For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.

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I always said to myself when I first started wrestling that I was gonna put absolutely everything into it - into becoming…

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Steve Corino was a guy I met before I got into Ring of Honor. I got to work with Steve, and he…

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Regardless of who leaves and who stays, Ring of Honor is going to continue to be a healthy, growing, successful pro wrestling…

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I look at a guy like Velveteen Dream who has only been wrestling for a couple of years, and he's just filled…

Charisma

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For me, travel is one of the biggest perks of pro wrestling. You get to see the world on somebody else's dime.

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I think the guys who have been on NXT and got to go to 'RAW' or 'SmackDown' got the full experience. That's…

Experience

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There is nothing I love more than pro wrestling, so getting to do that all over the globe with some of the…

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They are definitely pros and cons to triple threat matches. The cons to them is obviously coming up wth something very original…

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For me, my number one guy would be Tanahashi from New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Like, watching him, like, this guy is a bonafide…

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My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were…

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I had a tryout when I was, like, 19 and totally not prepared. I was 170 pounds with homemade gear. At that…

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I think too, Jay Lethal being apart of Ring of Honor and being in that role where he's one of the guys…

Business

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That's like the really fun, exciting thing about wrestling. There's no such thing as perfecting this art. You're constantly growing and you're…

Art

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Fortunately for me, I discovered Ring of Honor. And I saw guys who were much smaller in stature but were putting on…

Amazing

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I always think back to that first night in Brooklyn, where I debuted, and it was this total surprise. I just remember…

Hope

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When you look back at the former Ring of Honor world champions, whether it be Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Nigel…

Championship

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However, the positive, and I mean this, Jay Lethal and Kyle O'Reilly are two of my favorite opponents. I couldn't ask for…

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There's a big difference between trolling and just attacking guys to attack guys, to get under people's skin, and to genuinely express…

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The cool thing is, when we first did our joint Ring Of Honour-New Japanies Wrestlers, I think that definitely existed. I think…

America

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Ring of Honor has always been a company that focuses on youths and being a true alternative.

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If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

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The list of guys who have held the ROH championship, that's an elite group of guys.

Championship

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Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly are seriously like brothers to me.

Brotherhood

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I am stoked to go over to Japan and experience that culture.

Culture

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Being the first-ever three-time ROH world champion is pretty surreal.

Being

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