Adam Copeland gives injury update

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EXCLUSIVE: Adam Copeland Provides Update On Broken Leg, Jumping Off The Top Of The Cage At Double Or Nothing

Heading into the 2024 edition of AEW Double or Nothing, Adam Copeland was in a rhythm and had found his sea legs after debuting in the promotion at the inaugura

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The Takedown: Why did you jump off the top of the cage at Double or Nothing?

AC: 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’.

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’.

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’.

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.

The Takedown: As you said, you felt like you heard something click. Is your mind at all like, "Maybe we should do something else?”

AC: 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’.

The Takedown: The million dollar question is how is the leg? You haven't provided too much of an update since the injury. All we've seen is a picture that's made the social media rounds in the last 15 hours or so.

AC: It feels really good. I got the surgery. I guess it was June 1, by the time I finally got the surgery done. So I guess yesterday was three months. I've never broken my leg before, so I didn't know what that entails or what that entailed. With my Achilles, it was a process. This is not that which is good, because the Achilles, I was working eight hours a day on that thing. It became a full-time job and I got back in six months. But it was a lot of grinding of teeth. This isn't that more than anything. It's trying to get the power back and flexibility from bringing your toes to your knee. That's the last area that doesn't want to go yet because the plate goes down to the ankle because it was a lower fracture. It was a lower tibia fracture, so the plate butts up against that ankle bone. I think that'll be what I need to get through in order to be able to get all of that power back. I don't know what a timeframe is. I don't know any of that. I know that now I can walk, get in the ring, and move around a little bit, but I still feel the deficiency. So, I know I still have some work to do to return to where I need to be.

The Takedown: What do you make of what's happening in AEW? They had a great show at Wembley. They are coming to Chicago on Friday with Collision and All Out on Saturday. What do you make of some of the key things going on right now in the company?

A: I enjoy that we're getting more character-based stories. I look at the evolution of Hangman (Adam Page), his story with Swerve (Strickland), and how he slowly but surely went from being right to letting this thing turn him into this bitter, angry character. But like any good villain, there's an excellent reason for it. That is really compelling. So I've been loving watching that.

Bryan Danielson, what he brings to the table, and the emotion in that match with Swerve were so well done. Like with anything, you're not going to knock it out of the park 100 percent of the time. Nobody does. But I love that our roster really tries their ass off to make that happen. It's an exciting place to be because there's so much young talent. You got your guys like me, Christian, (Chris) Jericho, and your Samoa Joe's sprinkled in. You always need that to sometimes guide a little bit. But man, it's fun to be around and contagious to the point where I find myself jumping off cages and realizing I have to set a better example and show them that you don't need to do that. I've been enjoying the product. Sometimes it's hard for me when I'm out to watch the product, but it hasn't been this time, which is nice.