Adam Copeland went through a natural disaster to make WWE‘s first-ever tag team ladder match at No Mercy 1999.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Adam Copeland was a recent guest on NotSam Wrestling. When asked what Vince McMahon’s response was to his tag team ladder match at No Mercy, Copeland revealed he didn’t actually see McMahon following the matchup.
“I didn’t see Vince, honestly. I came back and I saw Mick Foley, who was just like effusive with his praise,” Adam Copeland said. “He just said you just solidified yourselves guys like you just did something no one’s done before. Jericho, the guys who were not afraid to admit that we just did something. So that was really nice.
“And it was such a crazy day because I was living in the Bahamas at that point. I flew in — there was a hurricane coming to Florida. So, I flew into Miami the night before the hurricane hit. So I rented a car, drove through the hurricane up to Tampa, caught the last flight to Cleveland. I landed in Cleveland at 4:30 PM for a 7 PM show. Yeah, it was that.
“But I’m driving through this thing white-knuckled; I can’t see anything. But I’m like, I have to get there because this is the match. This is the match. If I don’t get there, what’s going to happen? Do they put somebody else in that spot? Do they just not do the match and now I hosed those three guys? I gotta get through.”
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