With Triple H in charge of WWE now, Michael Cole is having the best time of his career. During an interview on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast, Cole said the following about his time working under Vince McMahon:
“We’re allowed to have bigger personalities now. You’re seeing the real Michael Cole — the guy who crowd surfs, who gets on tables, who jokes around. That would’ve never happened under Vince.
For the first time in my career, I really felt like I was important to this place. Before, Vince controlled everything. Now, wrestlers are delivering promos in their own voices, and it’s making the product better.
Listen, I will never ever disparage Vince McMahon. He’s got his personal issues and whatnot but from a professional standpoint, I’ll never disparage the man. I would not be here today without Vince. He gave me everything.
I’ll never disparage the man but Vince was very heavy-handed. It was his company, his sandbox, whatever he wanted. So, I was never really able to break out and be myself, with the exception of a little bit of a heel run I had over a decade ago.
But when Vince left and Paul (Levesque) came and was in charge, Triple H, he really changed things. Then we brought in Lee Fitting, who came from ESPN. Lee coming from ESPN, where the talent is the announcer, he came here and said, I don’t understand why our guys at the desk aren’t bigger and have bigger personas and aren’t as respected as the people in the ring.
What Lee and Paul have allowed us to do is bring our personalities out and you’re seeing the real Michael Cole now.
No one is in my ear anymore. Vince was a lot, but it’s his world. He would say anything like give me great advice or call me a f**king m*ron. Whatever mood he was in and whatever I did. Most of it was constructive criticism, it really was. There were days when Vince would just be Vince.
I think this whole, ‘Vince screamed at Michael Cole for 25 years’ thing is way overblown. There were moments, but it’s going to happen in a relationship for that long.”
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