WWE: WWE Reportedly Interested in Potentially Signing Jeff Cobb, Nikki Bella on “Going Back to WWE to Do Something”, Steve Austin on Wishing He Took More Time for WrestleMania 38 Match with Kevin Owens

Mar 13, 2025

WWE Reportedly Interested in Potentially Signing Jeff Cobb

As noted before, New Japan Pro Wrestling talent Jeff Cobb teased in a backstage interview at a Road to the New Beginning 2025 event this past February about the future of his career in the company being uncertain and the potential of him leaving for a new company.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that WWE officials have recently shown strong interest in signing Cobb to a potential contract with the company.

One source spoken to reportedly stated that Cobb’s name had appeared on WWE’s internal roster list this week but this was something that has yet to be confirmed from other sources.

Sapp reported that those spoken to within AEW stated that they currently do not expect Cobb to join their company.

Nikki Bella Comments on “Going Back to WWE to Do Something” in the Future

A recent episode of The Nikki & Brie Show podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer and co-host Nikki Bella giving her thoughts about her plans to do more with WWE in the future.

“I know at one point, I will be going back to WWE to do something. I don’t know when, I don’t know the story, but it’s going to happen. Watching that [movie], it made me feel like what I did when I broke my neck. I had moments of, ‘No, this isn’t going to be career ending, I’m going to come back.’ The thing is that I come back differently but she also had a massive knee injury. Seeing how she overcame, especially with the last match they showed in the movie, it just made me feel so many things of her age, being a mom, the mental ability and I was like, ‘I can do this and you can do it with anyone.’ It’s mind over matter. Maybe you don’t look like who the world champion is, or maybe you’re not the age of this new person that everyone is looking at, but that doesn’t mean that what you can do and conquer and achieve is over. When it’s the mind and you can push it in that way, you can conquer anything. You can become a world champion at this age if you want. You may have less muscles than this person, but you can still become a world champion at any age, you know what I mean?”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Steve Austin Comemnts on Wishing He Took More Time & Worked the Crowd for WrestleMania 38 Match with Kevin Owens

Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI held a recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin. One of the topics discussed included Austin’s thoughts about the match he had with Kevin Owens at WWE’s WrestleMania 38 event for his first match since 2003 and how parts of that match disappointed him.

“I was happy in a moment, but, you know, they didn’t send me a ring down. I didn’t have any timing. I think they interviewed Triple H, The Undertaker, and Hogan. Each one of them said something that was so true. Paul said, you can come back, but you don’t know what you have, because you haven’t been out there. Undertaker said, you’re not going to have any timing. He was right. I didn’t have any timing. Hell, I hadn’t hit a set of ropes in 19 years. Hadn’t thrown a punch in 19 years. Hogan says you’re just not calloused up. Your body is not as hard as it used to be. He was right, because when you when you take off, people talk about ring rust, that’s timing. So, I had no timing. Hogan was talking about being calloused up … those ropes hurt. Those bumps hurt. If you make a long comeback, it takes you two or three months to get those callouses back, so that your body doesn’t hurt after every single match. You build up an immunity to it, so they each made valid points. Like Paul said, you don’t know what you got until you get out there, because you can think you got it, but you don’t. When I went out there, I think I couldn’t hear the crowd as much as I wanted to. When I watched it back, the crowd was into it. It was very, very loud, yes, but I wish I would have taken more time, savored more moments, and worked the people a little bit more than I did. I think I was in a space of not knowing what I had and trying to be a little too frantic. I could have slowed down drastically and made that better. I wish that I would have. I haven’t told too many people that, but I told you.”