WWE star Adam Cole reveals where famous ‘Bay Bay’ chant came from after being inspired by Chris Jericho
WWE star Adam Cole has revealed where his famous ‘Bay Bay’ chant has come from which sends fans wild.
The NXT Champion has become a huge hit in Vince McMahon’s company as he leads the Undisputed Era to unprecedented success.
The 30-year-old – real name Austin Jenkins – entertains crowds with his much-loved catchphrase, and high-action in-ring style.
And Cole has told how he was inspired to do ‘Bay Bay’ with a mix of WWE legend Chris Jericho and a famous independent wrestler.
He exclusively spoke to SunSport and said: “It was a little combination of stuff.
“I still am a massive Chris Jericho fan and when he was in WCW shouting ‘come on baby’, I thought it was so obnoxious.
“The actual idea of yelling my name and putting ‘bay bay’ at the end was I saw Joey Mercury.
“He was wrestling the Independents as Joey Matthews, at a Maryland Championship Wrestling show and he was beating a guy up.
“Throughout the whole match he would throw his fists up in the air and shout ‘Joey Matthews’, over and over again to the point where people hated it so much.
“I thought that was so brilliant.
“For anyone who had never been to a wrestling show before, they were going to leave there remembering his name.
“So for the first six years that I did it, people would boo or just not respond at all. It was not something that people did with me, at all.
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“People would hate me for it but somewhere along the line it caught on.”
He added: “Even when the three of us debuted at TakeOver for NXT (before Roderick Strong joined), I remember us walking up the ramp, having never been in NXT before.
“I could tell they were excited and I thought ‘screw it, I am going to do ‘Adam Cole Bay Bay’ to see how it goes and everyone did it. I was like ‘oh, great I can do it here too’.”
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