AEW Champion Issues Apology Over Tone-Deaf All In: Texas Remarks

At last year’s AEW All In: Texas, Kyle Fletcher was scheduled to challenge Adam Cole for the TNT Championship.

However, before the show, it was reported that Cole was not medically cleared to compete and would relinquish his title, which he did while alluding that he may never wrestle again.

During an interview with Soundsphere recently, the current AEW TNT Champion spoke about that eventful day, calling it ‘one of the worst days of my whole life.’

Unfortunately, the Protostar’s remarks made him look like he was trying to put the spotlight on himself. Wrestling fans called the AEW star’s comments tone-deaf because they believed he had somewhat contributed to Cole’s injuries.

The backlash obviously reached the Australian wrestler because he has now issued an apology.

Kyle Fletcher Admits Fault For His Comments About AEW All In: Texas

While speaking to Adrian Hernandez on the Unlikely podcast, Kyle Fletcher addressed the fan backlash.

The AEW TNT Champion admitted to using the wrong words while speaking about All In: Texas, and that it was Adam Cole who suffered the most.

Yeah, that comment that I made the other day—I was very upset with myself for the way I worded it. I would like to apologize for the way I spoke and the words that I used. I think the words I used were a bit insensitive, saying it was one of the worst days of my life. My thought process when I was answering that was I never want to talk about somebody else’s story.

That whole situation, a lot of it is Adam’s story to tell, so when that question was asked, they asked me about my emotions, so I did my best to kind of not address what happened with Adam to the best of my ability and just focus on how I felt. Truthfully, that was one of the worst days of my life.

There’s this weird thing nowadays where kayfabe exists but it kind of doesn’t. All the stuff that happened with him, I have people in my ear kind of saying, ‘Oh, you should be saying in promos that you injured Adam Cole and using it for heat or whatever.’ I never felt good about that. So I’ve tried my best to stay away from talking about it.

But one of the reasons it was one of the worst days of my life is because I had to watch someone that I admire very much and look up to stand in the ring, cry, and say that he might never wrestle again. Then I had to go out into the ring and perform, knowing that it was possibly my fault, that everybody in the arena knew it was my fault. I’m sure you can imagine the headspace. It was a rush of emotions. The whole situation was horrible.

Again, I really don’t like talking about it. I don’t feel like I have the right to complain about any of it because what Adam is going through and has gone through, my feelings pale in comparison to it. But I was asked about my feelings that day when I answered the question. So that’s what I tried to talk about. Again, I apologize. I think I used some pretty bad wording, but those were my genuine feelings.

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