Adam Copeland Shares the Crucial Reason for His Departure from WWE

Adam Copeland made his debut for AEW at WrestleDream. His signing with the company was said to be one of the worst kept secrets in pro wrestling. There is a reason why he left WWE, because he wanted more.

Ringside News also previously exclusively reported that there is an internal belief within WWE that Edge is going to AEW. A short time later, Sean Sapp reported that there is also belief within AEW that Tony Khan will ink Adam Copeland to a contract.

While speaking to Talk is Jericho, Adam Copeland explained why he decided to leave WWE. He wanted to do more, and AEW offered him that opportunity. This is obviously not a decision that he took lightly.

“I think, too, you and I are both wired the same. I think anybody who’s been in this industry, as long as guys like us, you’re driven by challenges. You’re not just going to show up to something and the same old same old is only going to work so long. And eventually, you got to get challenged, you got to recreate yourself, you have to reinvent your character.”

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“You have to make tweaks, things like that change your style, whatever that is, in order to keep yourself creatively stimulated. Well, that also goes to who you’re working with. And I mean, I could work Seth Rollins every day of the week, and it’d be amazing. But we’ve wrestled now, okay. And I wrestled Finn, okay. Wrestled Roman, okay. wrestled AJ, like, there was a list of guys that I wanted to work with, and I worked most of them. And we just kind of got to a point I think, you know, I’ve said, I think both sides were just out of ideas. And that’s okay. It’s not, it’s no one’s fault. [Chris mentions how Adam and WWE outgrew each other] And I truly feel like that’s kind of the way it was I, I have a small window here to be able to contribute to the wrestling industry as a whole, and be able to pull off matches that I want to pull off at a certain level.”

“I know that the timeframe is small. It’s not like I got another 10 years left in me to do it the way I want to do it. And I wanted to maximise them. And to their point to WWE’s point is, you know, well, if you’re around too much, it’s not special. And I can see that I get it. I just felt like if I got two years or if I got a year then let’s take the governor off and let’s go. That’s really all boiled down to, and then I look at it and you know, when I did sit down with my family and talk and my girls made it real simple they said just go with Uncle Jay. I mean, when a nine-year-old can really simplify for you like that and just kind of smack in the face with like, clearly it’s gotta be that dad. Like, what do you think? Because for a while, like, after the Toronto show, I was like, God, this might be it, man. Because I was loving it.”

“We [Adam and Sheamus] just in there and we’d never worked to singles but it was so much fun and the crowd was Just, you know, halfway through I was like, Man, this might be it, this might be because this is so much fun. And I want my last match whatever that is to feel fun. And that was, so I really took some time to just kind of sit on my butt, and then sit with it and see where were my heart and my brain sometimes have different ideas. And I just needed to kind of get through all of that and decide where it was going to be. And again, the girls just really simplified it for me and made it a kind of a no-brainer when they said that.”

As reports of his AEW signing surfaces, Adam Copeland’s name was trending on social media, and not “Edge.” Fans were smart enough to realize that WWE owns the “Edge” name. Now, he is hearing his actual name called as he makes his way to the ring.

We will have to see what Adam Copeland is able to do next. He is in a storyline with Christian Cage right off the bat, one that Tony Khan probably really loves booking since Edge and Christian were two of his favorite wrestlers when he was a young fan. Kevin Nash just hopes that Adam Copeland can stay safe while wrestling in the Land of All Elite.

Keep checking back with Ringside News for more on this story, and so many more in the pro wrestling world. Adam Copeland is enjoying himself in AEW so far as a full-time talent, and that is what matters at this point.

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