Adam Copeland isn’t planning one last WWE homecoming before his career ends. After spending most of his wrestling life with the company, Copeland says he’s going to retire in AEW—and he doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
Speaking on The Ariel Helwani Show, Adam Copeland was asked directly whether AEW will be the company where he eventually hangs up his boots. There was no hesitation, as he made it clear he’ll retire in AEW.
“Yes. Yeah. That’s where I want to. I know that may disappoint a lot of people, but I love it there.”
Copeland knows that answer probably isn’t what some longtime WWE fans wanted to hear. He spent more than two decades associated with WWE, became a multiple-time world champion there and eventually made his seemingly impossible return to wrestling with the company in 2020. But he’s already done that chapter.
“I love the company. 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.”
His AEW contract isn’t necessarily ending anytime soon either. Copeland said he believes the deal originally would have been coming up around October, but time away for his broken leg and acting work on The Beekeeper and Percy Jackson may have added additional time to it.
“The contract wasn’t coming up, but I think it might’ve come up in October. But with The Beekeeper, Percy Jackson, and the broken leg, I think that all adds up as tacked-on time.”
That becomes considerably more important with Copeland openly acknowledging that retirement is getting closer. Back in May, the 52-year-old admitted his body is finally beginning to make the decision for him after getting an additional six years in the ring following his original forced retirement in 2011.
He even joked that arthritis has become his “best friend” and said this retirement should be easier to accept because, unlike the first time, he knows it’s coming.
Now we know where he intends for it to happen. Copeland already had his WWE ending once, then somehow got another chance to write an entirely different final chapter. Whenever his body finally tells him that chapter is over, he doesn’t plan on going back to where everything started for one last goodbye: He’s retiring in AEW.
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