Jeff Cobb Recalls WWE Trying To Sign Him After 2020 AEW Dynamite Appearance
Jeff Cobb made a surprise appearance on the February 12, 2020 episode of AEW Dynamite as a mercenary for Chris Jericho against Jon Moxley.
Cobb was part of New Japan Pro-Wrestling at the time.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Cobb revealed that after his Dynamite appearance, he was contacted by WWE.
“The first time was when I made my AEW Dynamite debut when I just came and beat up Jon Moxley, and the very next day I started getting phone calls like, ‘Are you available?’ I told you this every November, ‘Hey, January is usually when I’m free. But I already committed to New Japan.’ So I just told them, ‘Hey, listen, I had signed a deal with New Japan for a year because they usually only do one-year deals.’ So yeah, I said, ‘Well, I’d sign for a year,’ and then the pandemic hit. So I just said no, and that was the first time. Was February 2020, I believe,” he recalled.
Cobb would eventually sign with WWE in May 2025, but was released one year later.
Elsewhere during the interview, Cobb gave a list of potential names that WWE came up for him before it was settled that he would be JC Mateo. You can find his response here.
