The Rated R Superstar Adam Copeland is currently sidelined due to an injury. He got injured at the AEW Double or Nothing pay-per-view when he jumped off the top of a Steel Cage during his TNT Title match against Malakai Black.
Recently, while speaking to Steven Muelhausen of The Takedown on Sports Illustrated, the Copeland shared the reason why he chose to jump off the top of the cage.
“If you’ve watched my career, it’s not out of character. It’s one of those deals where every once in a while during my career, I felt like it was time to do something a little stupid, and for whatever reason, my brain has not gotten the memo that my body got that I’m 50 years old. I was feeling great. Having a lot of matches.
“Having different types of matches made me feel like I was getting into a groove because it’s doing it more often. It’s hard to feel like you’re in that groove, in that pocket, when it’s like once every three months, once every four months, or anything like that. I was wrestling much more often, which gave me a false sense of security in that, ‘Yeah, I got that, no problem’.”
Copeland also mentioned that he did not realize the height of the AEW cages until the moment he climbed to the top.
“I also didn’t realize how much higher AEW cages are until I got up there and went, ‘Oh, this is interesting (laughing). Here we go’.
Adam Copeland: I landed the way I was planning to land
“I landed the way I was planning to land. I just figured I’d land, and then I’ll roll backward, which is what I did. And I still didn’t fully know the extent of what had happened. I figured a bone bruise. I got up and ran, heard and felt a click, and went, ‘Hmm, interesting. Ok, I can get through this. It’s no big deal’.”
Copeland didn’t realize the depth of his injury until he got to the trainer’s room.
“We finished it off, and by the time I got to the back and was starting to go to the trainer’s room, I was like, this might be a little more than what I was thinking. There’s no grand reasoning for it whatsoever. I just got a cement head sometimes.”
Adam Copeland does not regret jumping off the top of the cage
During the same interview, Copeland mentioned that he felt he was fine and was confident he could finish the match as planned rather than wondering about ‘What could have been done differently.’
“No. Once I realized I could run and move, I was like this would be fine. I knew what we had planned, too. We had worked hard to make that moment with Gangrel happen. I didn’t want to call an audible and throw that away. I was like, ‘I can see this through. No big deal’.
“Once I got to the ER that night, Darby (Allin) and I walked in together. He’s wearing his oversized faux fur coat with his face all smashed up with thumbtacks in his nose, and I’m limping in, and I go, ‘Look at us’,” Adam Copeland said.
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