Having joined AEW in October 2023 as a full-time star, Adam Copeland has shared an update on his in-ring retirement timeline.
Known to WWE fans as Edge, Adam Copeland was forced into retirement due to a neck injury back in 2011, only to return during the 2020 Men’s Royal Rumble.
A storied career and a WWE Hall of Famer, Edge would be reborn as Adam Copeland in AEW, and spoke to SHAK Wrestling about his thoughts on retiring and how it might look for him, saying:
“What it looks like has always been the same, I’m going to go to the lake, I’m gonna sail my boat, drag the kids behind me on the little floating couch and sit in the mountains, and do occasional acting gigs. That’s pretty much gonna be the extent of it, and just be dad and be husband.
“In terms of the timeline, that’s shifted and had to change. I broke my leg, that put me out for a bit, and filming Beekeeper, filming Percy Jackson.
“But the amazing part here is that Tony and I sit down and we map a way to try and pull it all off, and he’s understanding of that too, which is really nice. To be able to kind of try and juggle two careers, because I never did this before. When I started acting, I retired from wrestling, so I’ve never tried to kind of balance the two. And it can be difficult at times, but, thankfully, I have a boss who wants me to do it still, and that’s huge. That’s huge, it’s massive.
“So, in terms of timeline, I don’t know, but I know that 95% of those matches I want to have are still out there to have, which is pretty cool. FTR was on there, The Young Bucks are on there, there’s a bunch of teams on there. And there’s all the solo matches I haven’t got to dip into yet, between (Swerve) Swerve and (Will) Ospreay and (Kyle) Fletcher and (Samoa) Joe, Hangman (Adam Page), there’s so much to work with and have fun.”
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Copeland & Christian Cage will be back in action at AEW Forbidden Door on June 28, defending their World Tag Team Championship against The Dogs (David Finlay & Clark Connors).
Career-Ending Injuries Are Sometimes Not The End
Adam Copeland (WWE’s Edge), Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan) and Saraya (Paige) all have career-ending injuries, only to be later cleared to return to in-ring action.
In all three cases, this wasn’t a reckless diagnosis just to get them back into the ring, it was likely advances in physiology that allowed them to compete once again, with support and care from skilled medical professionals based on current-day science.
Cope and Paige all continue to compete at the highest level, no doubt very much aware of the limits under which they perform, while Danielson has since retired as a full-time wrestler.
For some, though, career-ending is just that, with WWE’s Big E having suffered a broken neck in March 2022 and seeing no likelihood of an in-ring return and describing it as a ‘blessing in disguise.’
Big E and Corey Graves, who was forced to retire for concussion related reasons, have found new careers in WWE, with the former Tyson Kidd (TJ Wilson) also seeing a career-ending injury lead to a transition into a backstage producer role.
This is just a handful of names among the many who have turned tragedy into something new. The opportunity isn’t there for anyone, and for some the end of a career comes far too soon, but there’s still hopefully a future out there for those who can embrace it.
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