Give or take, Adam Copeland thinks he has about 18 months left in the ring.
The TNT Champion was a guest on Tuesday’s edition of Mostly Sports With Mark Titus & Brandon Walker. During the interview, Copeland was asked about the difference between the first run of his career and the one he’s currently on. Between the two stints, Copeland was retired for nine years due to neck issues.
Copeland said the biggest difference is all of the experience he has now. He’s lived more life and learned new things that he can use. Mentally, Copeland feels like he’s better than he’s ever been.
But the 50-year-old Copeland added that he doesn’t want to stick around in the ring too long and get to the point where young guys aren’t excited to wrestle him. Copeland believes he has maybe a year and a half left competing in the ring.
Copeland said:
I’ve lived a lot more life. And as strange as that sounds, it actually does add to your utility belt out there. As a performer, any kind of performer, whether it’s a musician writing music, whether it’s an actor and they gotta dip into some place of their actual self to pull the character off – it’s the same with wrestling. I think that, more than anything, is what I’ve noticed in coming back. And some of the skillsets that I got in the acting that I did in those nine years off. I did, I think, over 100 episodes of television in that time that I was retired. So you kind of try and pull those things back with you.
And I feel like that’s the biggest difference. I might not be as fast as I used to be, but I feel like mentally I’m better than I’ve ever been. And I think that is why a guy like Tom Brady keeps going, ‘Yeah, well, mentally I’m better than I’ve ever been. And I see the game better than I’ve ever seen it.’ I think that’s the struggle. And that’s kind of how I feel. But I’m also a realist, and I don’t want to be that guy who sticks around to the point where a young guy looks at the sheet and goes, ‘Ah, ok, I gotta wrestle him tonight.’ I don’t want to be that guy, right? I want young guys to still be excited if they’re going to hop in there with me. So I figure maybe I got a year and a half left, you know, give or take.
After 25 years working for WWE, Copeland debuted for AEW in October 2023. He’s teaming up with Willow Nightingale in a mixed tag match against Brody King & Julia Hart on Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite.
There will then be a trios match with Copeland, Eddie Kingston & Mark Briscoe facing House of Black (King, Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews) at AEW’s Dynasty pay-per-view this Sunday.
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