Adam Copeland is performing under his real name for the first time in his professional wrestling career.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Adam Copeland recently sat down with Chris Mueller of Bleacher Report. When asked how it feels to wrestle under his real name, Copeland admitted it feels cool but pretty strange.
“It’s so strange because my first trainer, Ron Hutchison, when we would run shows in and around the Toronto area, he always wanted to bill me as Adam Copeland,” he said. “And I was always kind of fighting it kicking and screaming; I was like, ‘No, I want to be Adam Impact, or I want to be Sexton Hardcastle’ because you need to have, you know, a cool name.
“And then I came to realize that I actually kind of enjoyed wrestling as Adam Copeland. When I started doing dark matches with WWF, at the time that I was coming in, it was all character names. And kind of like the one-word character name, right? So it’s fun actually to wrestle as Adam Copeland.
“For the last few years, essentially, you’re just getting a ramped-up version of Adam out there anyway. I’ve been pretty transparent with a lot of what the character has become, which is just a guy who loves what he’s doing, essentially. And then obviously, you have to ramp it up with some pro wrestling elements and theatrical elements and turn the knob up.
“But yeah, it’s cool. It’s still kind of strange. But I’ve also always just introduced myself as Adam. I’ve never gone up or if I’ve met someone say ‘Hi, I’m Edge.’ That just never happened. So it’s not really that different. But it’s strange to see it as a banner. That’s still a little surreal.”
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