Adam Copeland won’t be going back to WWE, will retire with AEW

Adam Copeland would already be retired if it wasn’t for AEW.

That’s what he told Ariel Helwani on his show today, saying his final run with WWE probably would have wrapped up fairly quickly and he would have sailed off into the sunset. That AEW exists, and has the roster it does, injected new life into the now 52-year-old veteran. When he does hang ‘em up — which won’t be until it stops being fun, which it still is — he’ll do so as a member of the AEW roster.

“That’s where I want to,” he said. “I know that may disappoint a lot of people, but I love it there.”

It’s almost hard to believe it’s been three years now since Edge became Cope and decided he was having so much more fun in an environment that wasn’t so “overproduced,” which is how he described his time in WWE at the end of it. AEW is just fun for him.

“I love the company,” he continued. “I love the attitude, the exuberance. I love the drive. I love the excitement that I see from the locker room. Yeah, I don’t wanna go anywhere else. I’m good. I did everything I could do there, and then some. And again, they got everything out of me that they could have. So it’s for the better, which is all you can ask for in a partnership.”

I’m not going to refute anything he’s saying here, of course, because he feels how he feels and if he’s happy that’s great. But it is pretty funny that he’s saying all this while currently holding the tag team titles with, you guessed it, Christian Cage.

The full interview is included in the video below: