Adam Copeland recently spoke with Brandon Walker of the Mostly Sports podcast where he spoke on topics such as his last run in WWE, his current run in AEW, initial retirement in 2011 and permanent retirement.
Copeland saw a renaissance or rebirth in his career when he returned to the ring at WWE’s Royal Rumble event back on January 26th, 2020. He would be a surprise entrant at number 21. During this run Copeland would have feuds with Miz and Maryse, and Randy Orton. He would go to win the Men’s 2021 Royal Rumble but would unsuccessfully challenge for the now Undisputed WWE Championship in a triple threat match alongside Bryan Danielson.
Copeland would then go on to create the dominant faction known as The Judgement Day before leaving WWE to join AEW in 2023. His reasoning for joining AEW was to end his career with his best friend Christian Cage and work with new talent.
Before his first time retirement back in 2011 Copeland was a multi time world champion. He was even the current world heavyweight champion at the time of his retirement. Now he is a WWE Hall of Famer and the current two time TNT Champion.
Copeland spoke on the differences of his two runs:
“I’ve lived a lot more life. As strange as that sounds, it actually does add to your utility belt out there. As a performer, any kind of performer, they have to dip into a place to pull the character off. It’s the same with wrestling. That, more than anything, is what I’ve noticed coming back. Some of the skillset I got in the acting I did during those nine years off, I did over 100 episodes of television when I was retired. You kind of pull those things back with you. I feel that’s the biggest difference. I might not be as fast as I used to be, but I feel mentally I’m better than I’ve ever been. That is why a guy like Tom Brady goes, ‘Yeah, well, mentally, I’m better than I’ve ever been. I see the game better than I’ve ever seen it.’ I think that’s the struggle. That’s kind of how I feel, but I’m also a realist. I don’t want to be that guy who sticks around to the point where a young guy looks at the sheet and goes, ‘Ah, okay, I have to wrestle him tonight.’ I don’t want to be that guy. I want young guys to still be excited if they’re going to hop in there with me. I figure maybe I have a year and a half left, give or take. Hopefully, I’ve gotten all the ‘yeah, yeahs’ out by that point,”
You can checkout the interview Mostly on Sports Podcast episode with “The Rated R Superstar” Adam Copeland below:
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