Michael Cole Recalls Idea For Charles Manson-Like Sit-Down Interview With Bray Wyatt

Michael Cole says that he and Bray Wyatt worked on an idea for a sit-down Charles Manson-esque interview that never came to pass. Cole was a guest on the Sal Licata Show and during the conversation he reflected on his work with the late WWE star. He recalled how he and Wyatt worked on an idea for an interview series that would have been reminiscent of the interview that infamous man behind the Tate-LaBianca murders did while he was in prison.

“Bray and I did a lot of work together over the years. Bray was awesome. He was one of the most creative people that we’ve ever had in our company. Unbelievably nice man as well,” said Cole (per Wrestling Inc). “One of the stories Bray and I had worked on for a number of years was trying to do a sit-down interview where it would be like Michael Cole interviewing Charles Manson in prison. If you’ve ever gone back and watched some of the old videotapes of interviews that were done with Manson in prison, it was a really intriguing idea by Bray.”

He continued, “We had even mapped it out, and the concept was ready to go, and for some reason it never happened. But I thought that, especially if it was a multi-part interview series, it would have really helped Bray bring out that character even more, and we could have seen that real sick, sadistic side of the Bray Wyatt character.”

According to an interview from last year with former WWE writer Nick Manfredini, Manson had actually asked about meeting with Wyatt after seeing his promos from prison, but WWE quickly shut that notion down.