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#3 Young Adam Cole Was Inspired By "Stone Cold" Steve Austin

Adam Cole Representing The Bullet Club

Everyone has a hero, an idol that inspires them to pursue their dreams. For young Adam Cole that icon was none other than WWE Hall of Famer "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

Cole told Lilian Garcia about the first time he saw Austin come to the ring,

"I was taking karate lessons when I was younger....one day I got there early and my instructor was watching a taped Monday Night RAW and he was watching it in the background. I had no clue what it was."

Cole wanted to fit in with his karate instructor, so when he was asked if he watched wrestling, he fibbed and said he watched it all the time. The instructor offered to lend him WrestleMania XV on videotape, but only if Cole could get his mother's signature first. Cole went home and begged his mom to sign the permission slip.

She obliged and Cole took the video home to watch,

"I remember when Stone Cold's music would hit and he would come to the ring and 20,000 people would go insane at his every move, I would go, 'That's the coolest human being on the planet.' I thought he was the coolest."

Two years later Cole watched WrestleMania X-Seven and would go on to obsessively watch the event every single day,

"That was the first time I ever got goosebumps. In that moment, I decided I didn't just want to be a fan. I was like, 'I have to do this as a job.' When his music hit in the Astrodome and 67,000 people did what normally 20,000 people do - I didn't know what was going on being a young kid, I was like, 'Why do I feel this way? What is going on? That was my first goosebumps moment and in that moment I was like, 'I have to be a wrestler. I have to do it.'"