Tony Khan Comments on Adam Cole Injury After AEW All In Texas

Tony Khan spoke about the Adam Cole injury and his appearance at AEW All In Texas following the show on Saturday night. Cole noted during his appearance that he may be forced to retire due to his health issues.

Khan was asked by Jon Alba of Sports Illustrated about Cole. Highlights of his comments are below (h/t Fightful).

On supporting Adam Cole: “I fully support his decision to take some time. I felt like the right thing to do would be to vacate the championship and give Adam Cole time off, but also give him time to talk to the fans. Last night, when I was at ROH Supercard of Honor, planning for the pay-per-view, we put everything in place for Adam Cole to defend the championship against Kyle Fletcher.”

On how plans changed right before All In Texas: “Coming out of Collision, Adam Cole came back, we talked, he was definitely planning to be at the pay-per-view, and even yesterday we had talked. Somewhere between late last night and early this morning, we talked, and he just wasn’t feeling well. That is the unpredictable nature of some of these injuries and it’s really important that Adam Cole takes the time to get right because he’s a great figure in AEW.”

On making the decision to pull him from All In Texas: “We talked last night and both of us immediately reached a conclusion that it makes a lot of sense when he was not feeling right to go out for this. He’s one of the greatest pro wrestlers in the world, we both know it’s not good. He doesn’t feel very well if he’s not able to wrestle a championship match on the biggest show that AEW has ever done in North America. Adam Cole is a big part of AEW and hopefully he’ll be here forever. I just don’t know when the next time he’ll be wrestling is. He’s definitely still part of the team and the family.”