A tearful Adam Cole took to the ring at All In: Texas to relinquish his AEW TNT Title and say at least a temporary goodbye.
Citing unspecified “health issues”, he laid the title in the ring and brought up the specter of retirement as he said he would be “gone for a while.”
Cole said:
It’s really hard to put this into words, but I wanted to come out here and talk to you all. Very sorry that I let everybody down and I can’t wrestle tonight.
I have some health issues going on at the moment that not only will not allow me to defend this championship tonight, but I am going to be gone for a while.
And I don’t even want to think about talking about retiring because I am not in the right headspace, but I wanted to have this opportunity to come out and talk to you all, if this is indeed goodbye, because you are the best damn wrestling fans in the world.
Since I was nine years old, I’ve always dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler. It’s all I ever wanted to do, and all of you made that dream come true for me. You’ve supported me across multiple promotions all over the world you have no idea how much that means to me.
With my highest moments and recently my lowest moments, all of you have been so supportive every step of the way and, damn it, I will love you forever. Thank you so much.
After putting over the rest of the card, he concluded:
From me — honestly, from everybody at AEW — thank you for making AEW what it is. Thank you for making AEW so special and thank you all so damn much for changing my life. I love you always.
After his address, he was embraced by Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong.
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