Jeff Cobb reflects on his past opportunities with WWE.
In late 2021, Jeff Cobb revealed that he received a contract offer from WWE the year prior. He explained why he turned the deal down and ultimately decided on signing with New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
While Cobb was a guest on the Wrestling Perspective Podcast, he looked back on his 2014 tryout with WWE and thinks that if the company presented him with an offer then, he would have joined. In the end, Cobb is happy with the path he took and further commented on why he did not join WWE in 2020.
Definitely the creative freedom [is what drives me]. I mean, I don’t wanna get too much into detail but, if I wanted to just chase it for the money, I would have signed with WWE last year. But I chose not to, just because, again, money’s not the end-all be-all for myself and it’s not where I’m at in my life right now. Now, when I had my first tryout in 2014, if they gave me a contract, I probably would have signed it back then just because I was at a different point in my career and a different point, just, in my life. But, flash forward, what was it? Six, eight years later, I’m happy I didn’t go there.
Cobb is back in action for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He returned at the Anniversary show after being sidelined with a left patellar tendon tear and muscle strain in his left leg.
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