Adam Copeland (Edge) recently appeared as a guest on The Masked Man Show for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling. During the discussion, Copeland commented on what chapter in his story he is writing now:
“I think it’s the first chapter without the name Edge, honestly. Not a lot else has changed from the incarnation that started this comeback. I kind of told myself that this iteration of whatever it is I’m doing now is almost just Adam. A lot of the character layers have been have been peeled away and you’re just kind of getting this guy, being me, but yeah, really just peeled away so that you’re seeing Adam Copeland, the fan of professional wrestling who just happened to get his dream gig and is doing it, and is doing it after he was told he’d never do it again. I think because it’s so real, if you tried to do anything else, which I tried once, it’s probably not going to work.”
The storyline with himself and Christian Cage:
‘We just know that at this stage of our careers, with everything that we’ve learned, experienced, soaked in. this version of what Christian Cage is and this version of what Adam Copeland is, I truly feel from a mental, from a character, and emotional standpoint, the best we’ve ever been. So in terms of telling stories, listen, everybody can do wrestling moves. You know, I can only do a certain amount anymore (he laughs), but the whole goal is to make people care about the character and the person delivering those wrestling moves and I truly feel like this one, this story, I mean, people are gonna get invested in this because there’s so much truth to it. There’s so much reality.”
Leaving WWE:
“There’s no ill will. There’s no hard feelings at all, and I’m actually really happy about that because I love that company. It was really just at a certain point, you’ve been here 25 years, I was contracted for 10 matches a year. I offered more because I thought, hey, if I’m around more, I can contribute more and we can do deeper, denser storylines, but to their point, and it’s a very good point, if you’re around more, it feels less special, and I know that. I know that can end up being the case with AEW. When it becomes a pattern, people go, ‘Okay, it’s that guy again’, but I’m trying to look at the positives of that and going okay, but I can go deeper. I can tell deeper stories this way instead of popping in every three months here and there. So that’s really all it was, you know, it was just, what else is there left to do, even in terms of wrestling the majority of the current roster?”
You can check out the complete interview below:
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
