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

Adam Copeland at the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Panel at the 2024 San Diego International Comic-Con on July 25, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images) | Variety via Getty Images 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