While Michael Cole’s wife wasn’t happy with his time away from home while he followed the 1996 US Presidential race, when it came to WWE, she seemed to have a different opinion about his schedule. “She was okay with it because, the thing about WWE is we have a schedule, and I know when I’m going to travel,” he explained.
“At CBS, I didn’t have that luxury, because I’d sometimes get a phone call in the middle of the night and [they’d] say, ‘Hey, there was a plane crash in Florida, go ahead and go down to that,'” Cole recalled, “and I had to be there till the story was over and sometimes that was five days and sometimes that was a month.”
Cole further explained that while dating his now-wife, there was little consistency because of his career, leaving her to care for her two children by herself most of the time.
“So, I’m mid-20s, ready-made family, just got married, trying to figure out what to do with my life, started in this crazy world of wrestling – which I was a fan, but I had no idea getting into – but now I end up like this,” he expressed.
Despite all of this, Cole benefited from being Kevin Dunn’s first WWE hiree, as he always made sure Cole was protected and learned the business the right way.
“I wasn’t just thrown out there, having no idea what was going on,” he claimed, but Dunn put him with a duo that ended up smartening him up fast. “I ended up travelling with Ron Simmons and JBL, and that shaped my life in WWE and I grew up quick.”
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