Adam Copeland has a perfect world in wrestling and it involves a life-long friend.
The former Edge made his AEW debut this past weekend at WrestleDream and took the side of the babyfaces as he made the save for Sting and Darby Allin after Christian Cage defeated Allin in the main event. Now Adam Copeland is a full-time member of the AEW roster and will be facing a Cage ally in Luchasaurus on the October 10 episode of AEW Dynamite.
However, many were curious as to when exactly his WWE contract expired. Speaking in a new interview with Shakiel Mahjouri of CBS Sports, Copeland gave the exact date when he was finished with WWE and when he made the decision to sign with AEW.
“It wasn’t until my contract was up on [Sept. 21]. It wasn’t until then so it was really, really quick to get everything done and get everything dialed in. Figuring out so many things like getting with Alter Bridge and getting the music and doing all of those things. There were nine or 10 days.”
As well as Alter Bridge, Adam Copeland has also revealed there’s a chance he could use another classic WWE theme in the future.
Adam Copeland Details Reasons Behind WWE Exit
Adam Copeland added how much of an influence his wife Beth Phoenix was in the process of the decision-making process for him and made him realize how much he’d like to end-cap his career with his life-long buddy and “brother” Christian Cage.
“I really thought that working with Jay again was what I wanted to do and how I pictured it in a perfect world. Beth said, ‘What’s your perfect world? ‘I was like, ‘My perfect world is that I end my career with Jay.’ So suddenly that perfect world looked like it could be there. It’s tough to pass that up.”
Copeland continued to give details behind his exit from WWE, citing that creative differences and lack of opportunities played a motivating factor.
“I kind of got the sense there wasn’t really a plan [for me in WWE]. I get it because what else do we do? What else is there to do? And after 25 years I’ve literally done everything there. So what do we do? It wasn’t anybody’s fault. I was coming up against creative walls too. I was having a hard time coming up with ideas and that’s not usually the case. I think they were too.
“There was also the conundrum that I was contracted for 10 matches a year. I offered to do more, but to their point, it wouldn’t feel quite as special, which I understood too… It just felt like neither one of us really had any ideas and that’s never been the case before. So when you look at that and then I look at my best friend over there having the time of his life, at a certain point, once I thought, ‘You know what, I still have a window here where I can do this and I don’t feel like I’m maximizing that.’ I think that was really what it boiled down to.”
Adam Copeland also reiterated that he considered retiring before agreeing to join AEW.