Triple H Says Gargano vs. Cole Feels As Big Gargano vs. Ciampa

– Triple H and Adam Cole spoke to CBS Sports ahead of tonight’s NXT TakeOver: New York event. Below are some highlights.

Triple H On Gargano vs. Cole: “It’s always the challenge, and we go there every single time and I’m holding my breath. We try to build the most epic stuff and you do the best that you can. To be honest, we are at the mercy of the talent and how great they are. I look at this card and it’s the talent. The fact that as unbelievable of a year as Johnny Gargano and Tomasso Ciampa have had to tell this story, the fact that as awesome as they are that Ciampa could get injured — and this is no slight to him — and you could pick five guys, put them in a fatal five-way and say any of these five could win this and have people go, ‘Yeah, that would be epic.’ Adam Cole wins it, and by the end of that show, Michael Hayes, Shawn Michaels and I sat in a room in the back and said, ‘Man, this feels as big as it did when we shot the ending of the Gargano-Ciampa story right before he got injured,’ Already it feels as big as that, and that’s a testament to the talent and how good they are.”

Adam Cole On TakeOver Pressure: “There is so much pressure that goes into being the main event of a TakeOver card in general, let alone one that is as stacked as this one is and it’s WrestleMania weekend. So the insane amount of pressure that Johnny and I have is actually insane, but it’s good pressure because the thing that I’m most proud of with NXT is those cards, top to bottom, deliver. Every time there is a TakeOver event, match one through five all deliver. We are going to go into that main event knowing the audience just saw four absolutely incredible matches, and it’s our job to make sure that they leave talking about ours.”