Kyle O’Reilly comments on Adam Cole stepping away from wrestling for the foreseeable future

As seen during the 2025 AEW All In: Texas PPV event, Adam Cole announced that he had to relinquish the TNT title due to a health setback. An emotional Cole stated that he might not be able to wrestle again and thanked the fans for their support.

While speaking on AEW’s Unrestricted podcast, Cole’s longtime faction teammate Kyle O’Reilly stated the following…

“I think there’s definitely a career post-wrestling and you know, we never know when our last match is gonna be so I’m grateful for every match that I have at this point moving forward because that’s the thing, maybe the show before All In, me and Roddy (Strong) and Adam (Cole) were having a six-man tag and before we go out the curtain, we just have a little pow wow and a little hug and we’re just so grateful for these moments that we get to have behind the curtain right before our music is about to hit, when it’s just the three of us and we’re focused on the match and the love that we have for each other and the trust that we all have for each other and just we never know how many of those we’re gonna have again and then lo and behold, we don’t know where Adam Cole’s at right now but, for the foreseeable future, that was his last match for the time being. You can’t take any of this for granted and you gotta appreciate and love every minute you get in there, you know?”

“We just have so much love for each other. It’s unfortunate that it had to sort of — not end the way it did, because nothing’s ever over… But it’s just such a sad and unfortunate circumstance that what happened at All In but… I’m really proud of Adam (Cole) for making that call and for being the stand-up guy that he is and for taking his health into account and for starting that process to getting well again, and it’s huge and just forever proud of him and grateful that we got to do that again together. Like I was saying earlier, you never know when (you’ll have to) hang it up in wrestling and so, it’s just really weird that we got to say that that last match. Appreciate these moments while we got ‘em.” (quotes courtesy of Andrew Thompson)