Jeff Cobb made a surprise appearance on AEW when he was revealed to be the Inner Circle’s secret weapon against Jon Moxley. While he lost to Moxley, that did not stop certain rumors from spreading.
Jeff Cobb recently spoke to the ROH Strong podcast, where he provided an explanation as to how his run in AEW began. Many rumors suggested he had signed with AEW, but he did not have any intention of leaving ROH. Here is what he said:
“I mean, to be honest with you? January 1st, my contract did expire with Ring of Honor. And I made it very clear that I would like to stay and work with Ring of Honor because I believe in the company, and I believe in the direction that we’re going. And especially the talent, like, the talent is ridiculous. So my goal was to stay, but this opportunity came up and I took it. And I feel it was good for both parties. Because now, people are talking. People that only watch AEW are like, ‘Well, I thought Jeff is Ring of Honor?’ Or some people are like, ‘What’s Ring of Honor?’ And then they come over and look at Ring of Honor, and now there’s more eyes that wouldn’t have been on Ring of Honor that are going over now. So I think it helped everybody in the grand scheme of things. And t was fun, you know. Good pay day.”
Cobb was asked if AEW tried to sneak him into the building. He revealed that most of the AEW roster did not know he was coming and only saw him when he made his entrance.
“So it was weird, because nobody knew that I was coming. There’s maybe five or six people that knew I was coming. Cody Rhodes knew, because I was in contact with him. And Moxley knew because I was, you know, beating him up. There’s maybe five people that knew. And I was pretty much, I came early because I had to do some behind-the-scenes stuff. And then you know, everybody that came in during call times are like, ‘What are you doing here?’ kind of thing. And it was fun. It was fun messing with them, so it was a fun time.”
