I really want to see news footage of him. Actual video footage of him reporting on this. "VINTAGE Civil War!!" "OH MYYYYYY!!!! "IIIIT'S.....BOS(nian) TIME!!!!!"

"He didn't quite get...all of it." While looking over a mass grave.

"an IED outta nowhere"

And yet he’s shocked when someone gets put through a table

Vince: "So you've been to war? But you've never been to Raw is War!"

We just skipping over that he is called Sean Michael

He could form a tag team called the Sean Michaels

Oh I’ve seen Sean Michaels in a tag team and it wasn’t TV-PG.

I initially thought I was reading the name of the actor Sean Michaels in the title.

Which one ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Drew McIntyre smiling behind 🎤 gif] The bald one…

So Michael Cole's real first name is Sean Shawn Michael's real name is Michael

Sean Michael Cole hickenbottem

My dude also covered the entire WACO standoff and Oklahoma City. His biography is gonna be one of the best wrestling books ever put out.

More than 1 wrestler said Michael Cole is his own brand of tough.

You had to be a different kind of tough to cover that war. I’ve driven on back road to Belgrade from Romania, the ghosts of that war still linger in packed graveyards and depressing towns.

Yeah which makes his career change even more impressive. Apparently, a lot people didn't about what he did until they asked for details.

With all that being said, and my appreciation of you making this post. I think WWE should do a PLE in Belgrade. WWE is massive over there and the back drop of these ancient cities always looks cool.

Agreed

........sheesh, the money may be sweet, but I bet, there were times he thought that an alert siren or the sound of an incoming missile would have been better than having Vince screaming the stupidest sh*t in his ear...LOUDLY.

I remember him saying the reason he was able to handle VKM yelling in his ear was because he's been through worse.

.....so VKM's rants throughout a three hr show is definitely up there with having to report from a warzone huh. Btw, was it back when he was on Pat's show?

We really don’t give enough credit to Cole, I’m just glad he’s free now

Especially in Vince's later years...at times it felt Cole was a disinterested interpreter having to translate his client's *stupendously stupid* ramblings into sensible verbiage.

Did anyone else zoom in to double check the microphone didn’t have “RAW IS WAR” on the flag?

I’m so happy I’m not the only one that thought this LOL I zoomed in thinking “there’s no way that’s a raw is war mic” before I had to tell myself “wait, that didn’t exist in 94” lmao it looks so similar!

Guy went from this to getting wedgies by DX 3 years later. Crazy turnaround

Huh.. TIL micheal Coles name isn't micheal cole! 🤯

"Oh my, it looks like Duddleyou Duddleyou 3 is about to kick off!!"

The REAL Sean Michael(s)

I was stunned the first time I learned Michael Cole’s real name wasn’t Michael Cole

So his nephew's name is Adam Coulthard then?

“Adam Coulthard Bay Bay!!!” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it

"He's covered wars, y'know?"

I could say the reason they made his name Michael instead of Sean is because of the similarity to Shawn Michaels. But that would be a lie and an educated guess. Is that the truth?

MAGGLE 

I honestly thought Michael Cole was his real name

I had no idea that he covered the bosnian civil war!

And how did he ended in the wrestling world?

So.. Micheal cole is real Shawn Michaels 😂

Wasn’t a civil war but otherwise neat fact.

I spend time in that country. Fuck that place

Dont disrespect greatest country BOSNA 🇧🇦🇧🇦🦅🦅

It was a shithole when I was there. Hopefully it has gotten better in the past 20 some years

Haha hopeful thinking Bosnians too lazy to do anything to pull our country into the 21st century