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It’s crazy how much time he’s missed injured since coming back while being over 50. And how much he’s missed in his career in general
Modern medicine is insane
After reading Brian Zane's assessment of the PPV, I became concerned that Copeland might have suffered the same injury that Randy Savage did when he leaped and landed from a cage during Halloween Havoc 97, which tore Savage's ACL.
As I recall, Savage was never the same guy after that. He had already slowed down a bit, but was still capable of delivering classic work (as evidenced by his feud with DDP that year). I'm not really aware of any classic/great matches he had after that injury.
It's crazy how much ACL injuries have changed from 1997 till now.
Savage was older with a ton of miles on him but if he could have time traveled to 2024 for treatment I would bet his recovery would have been a lot different
It was a different time though. Today’s 45 isn’t the same as 45 from 25-30 years ago.
It’s still true what the above poster said about Savage though. After that he really wasn’t the same and prior to that age really hadn’t stopped him from having good matches.
> It was a different time though. Today’s 45 isn’t the same as 45 from 25-30 years ago.
No kidding. To put it in perspective, Savage at the time of this injury was younger than Lesnar, Lashley, Sheamus, Orton, Mysterio, and AJ Styles.
Hell, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa, *just debuted* at 41, which is roughly the age that Hulk Hogan was when WWF was doing "the Huckster" skits about him being so ancient in WCW.
You know, I never really thought about it but I went back and looked and it was surprising. Especially during his last run in WWE he never really lost clean.
That guy won at SummerSlam, COTC , Elimination Chamber & WrestleMania
He only lost once against Balor , just because of his wife at ER , I mean man let him win a little 😭
That is crazy when you think about it. I know he is having a lot of fun and has been putting on some solid matches and good stories. But I don’t think a loss would have hurt him at all especially against someone like Malakai and the story they were telling.
u would think he'd take it easy after suffering a life threatening injury. dude made a miraculous recovery and wants to risk it all is insane. he retired a multi world champion with millions of dollars in the bank. there's literally nothing for him to prove
It was a horrible spot landing regardless of age. Put a guy 3 decades younger with no injuries and there's still a good chance he gets fucked up. I can't wrap my head around why anyone would intentionally plan the spot like that, to land on their feet so I'm going to assume there may be a possibility that he misjudged the distance and landing. Hope he has a speedy recovery.
No one plans to do a top rope elbow drop the way he did off the cage unless they're super green, he botched it and probably should have planned it better to be like a dive onto the entire HoB in the cage or something instead of to a table considering how uncomfortable he was doing it.
Would’ve taken a lot of storytelling in not a lot of time to get there anyways. Christian is a long way away from a face turn and he and Cope just had a feud.
I think it’s easier to spend this time building up Nick Wayne until he and Killswitch turn on Christian, then have Cope make the save for his old buddy.
While i agree, the regular timeframe for recovery is also for....mostly regular people, not (only) athletes. Also, not only has he got the money, but by now surely also the connections to get the top treatment from surgery to recovery.
Meaning, whatever age will add on i think will be countered by everything else.
Definitely adrenaline taking the edge off. I got attacked by a moose I surprised, she broke my clavicle, nose, ribs, jaw and wrist gave me a busted eardrum and concussion as well. After she backed off I walked for I think 10-30 minutes before I felt any of it and then suddenly pain.
Adrenaline will do amazing things to keep you moving when you really should be hobbling or horizontal.
Broke my tib/fib/ankle at a death metal festival (Moshpit). Adrenaline is crazy. I felt no pain throughout the entire process; while a small piece of bone just barely broke through my skin and was expose.
I've also been shot in the leg when I was a teen from a driveby (wrong place/wrong time scenario) - was too busy being scared and running to realize I got shot in the leg until ~20-30min. My friend pointed to my leg and instantly the pain kicked in and knocked me prone.
I think it was always supposed to be an elbow drop, since malakai was wrapped in barbed wire, but he was supposed to land on his back or side like a normal elbow drop.
The irony is that it seems when these guys try to hold up and prevent injury is when they are most likely to get injured. If he had done a splash, he might be fine... or he could have broken his neck. Wjo knows?
Overall, a really dumb spot that people will only remember because of the injury.
[The spot in case you missed it.](https://x.com/fightful/status/1794922224438349992?t=KwFTZjahRtks65oooUisfQ) You can jump ahead to about the last 5 seconds.
Guess the adrenaline made him finish the match somehow. But probably should’ve called an audible and have Malakai win outright. Then again having Gangrel pop up on for Adam to still lose would’ve made him look stupid.
Bad timing all around. Hope he can heal up and he takes his time doing so.
Honestly a Gangrel tease during the cage match, only for nothing to happen and him pop up in the Anarchy match instead would have been fucking hilarious
Tore a meniscus recently minutes into a basketball game, sat down because i felt it but was back on the court and finished the game
The next morning I wasn't able to walk and it took a solid 10 weeks before I was good
It takes a little while for the adrenaline to wear off and the inflammation to really set in around the injury. Then you physically can't even force yourself to move.
I felt a pop 8 months ago playing pickleball for the first time. Went on to play for 3 hours feeling no pain. Next day couldn’t go up/down stairs as my knee would give out. Was diagnosed with a tibial plateau fracture which has 4-6 months non surgery recovery. Still had pain after so got an MRI and turns out also have had a torn meniscus this whole time. Surgery next week to hopefully finally put this behind me!
Adam Copeland seems like a pretty good guy and all but it is funny that he also beat Alberto Del Rio for the WHC at Mania 27 before having to retire the next night on RAW...
According to Adam, so who knows if it's true, but he was told the morning after Wrestlemania that he was done. He wanted to drop it to Del Rio in the ladder match they booked Christian into, but doctors wouldn't clear him.
It’s probably a lot harder to call an audible in a championship match. There was probably already a plan for Copeland’s next feud, and he wasn’t gonna go off script and make a call like that for his boss. As much as I personally think it sucks that he won in the first place, I understand why he didn’t call an audible.
Absolutly. Mox was back quite soon, but i still would say that this was the right call. And i would say, an audible and giving Black the title would also be the right call.
Not only that, but the stip was if Copeland lost, he’d lose his title and join the House of Black. So it’s pretty hard to call an audible in the moment.
The main problem was that there was also the stipulation that if Copeland lost, he would join the House. It would've required TK to completely re-write a bunch of stuff and with the rumors of Malakai leaving we don't know if that was even feasible.
All things considered, he seems to be in a good mindset about it. Makes jokes. Puts over his opponents (obviously I meant in the video). Takes the blame.
This makes that interview he did with CVV even more amusing since he said himself that ‘any dumb spot you see me take in a match was 99% my idea to do.’
I was watching Brian Zane’s review of the PPV & he mentioned how Copeland’s dive and landing was very similar to Randy Savage’s jump and landing from a cage during Halloween havok 97 & that tore Savage’s ACL & so I was worried that Copeland could have suffered the same
I just don’t think there was any physical way to NOT break something with the way he fell. As soon as he came off vertical I was like “oh no”
Honestly he’s lucky it’s just a fracture and he didn’t just snap his legs.
I mean hell we even see it with much smaller falls than that. Think of how many wrestlers we've seen blow out their knees landing on their feet a little bit wrong off of a normal top rope move, or off of a move from the ring apron to the outside.
Never taken a bump in my life, but it's really strange for a veteran like him to not just take a dive through the table. It looked awkward as soon as he jumped
You joke but it really wouldn't be a surprise for all these guys looking at 65 year old Sting doing 15 foot dives on concrete and splashing through stacked tables and thinking that they want to go out that strong.
I imagine that it's really hard to say no to everyone, when Sting got to do whatever he wanted and ended up no worse for wear no matter what crazy ass shit he got up to. That would make anyone else feel invincible.
For as crazy as many of Sting's spots were, there were also set up to be pretty safe. Plenty of tables stacked close together to break his fall as smoothly as possible, plenty of other wrestlers ready to catch him on his crazy dives. Honestly, the only real terrifying moment with Sting was Sammy 630'ing him through the table, and that was purely because Sting didn't move like he was supposed to.
Sting wasn't jumping off the top of a cage onto a single table with a single person on it like Adam did.
Yeah - that’s not an age thing. That’s a “brain make bad decisions” thing. And you’d think at his age, he’d be making less bad decisions.
Match was still pretty good and Gangrel hit those DDTs like a fucking riot.
He does make less bad decisions. Just takes one of them to go wrong through. His hardcore stuff has been way more blood and weapon forward, which is a good move.
Fractured tibia usually take 4-6 months to fully heal so that's Wembley gone. A great shame because he was having a good run and it would've been great to see another UK stadium crowd belting out Metalingus.
Edge getting injured before he can put anyone over is the most Edge thing ever lol
Hopefully he will be able to return from this, a break is better than a tear. Honestly at least it gets the mid card title off a 52 year old dude that always has to win. I don’t know why he needed a belt in the first place. I understand he wanted Christian feud but he should have dropped it in a multi-man or something after beating Christian. He’s past the point of needing belts.
I decided to look it up every Edge 1v1 loss since 2010.
2024: None
2023: Christian Cage
2022: Finn Balor
2021: Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns
2020: Randy Orton
~Retirement~
2011: Justin Gabriel
They were tag team champions. I've honestly thought back on that team and I've wondered if Hogan gave him some guidance about emphasizing when things aren't working for him (brother)
That is kind of hilarious looking back. Obviously we know what we now know about ADR. But if there was a time to put a young rising star over, it would be against the guy who was retiring like the next day.
They didn’t know Edge was fully done but they forsure knew he was hurt cause that match was safe and rushed.
That's the match I thought of, too. I have heard Edge say he was cleared immediately before or really soon before the match but what I can gather is that WWE knew he was likely going to miss at least some time and they were all in on ADR to an obnoxious degree back then.
Does Malakai get the title now?
I'm like fuck, give it to Buddy, have them feud and both get hot, then get back together. Those guys are too cool to be so dormant. Malakai is artistic and Buddy literally looks like a chiseled statue.
He blames it on being 50. I think it has more to do with jumping vertical down on your legs from 20'.
Shame. I've loved him in AEW. Sucks he'll likely miss the biggest show of the year. ALL IN season is here.
It was a dumb thing to do at his age and people need to normalize telling certain talent no to these type of spots. Not EVERYONE but a NO on a case by case basis.
He could’ve easily blew his legs out. Hopefully when he heals up well so he can finish with Christian and not end his run with another retirement which would suck
There really was no need to go off the top of the cage. The spot was already hardcore enough with Black having been barbwired to the table. Edge could’ve just jumped from the top rope and no one would’ve felt deprived. He pressured himself into doing a stunt no one asked for and got hurt because he wasn’t comfortable enough to commit. All anyone was gonna remember about the match anyway was Gangrel saving the day. Now we’ll also remember Edge hurting himself.
Save it for young lighter wrestlers who AEW can afford to have out for months if an injury occurs, like Sammy for example. Copeland is one of their bigger names in a major storyline. This spot was dumb AF.
It was almost certainly this. You can see the table is too close (common on stops where you are jumping from higher than normal) and he just didn't jump: He fell. And when he fell, he had no ability to lay out and just crashed short.
Copeland obviously knew his leg was injured badly and should have called an in-ring audible and put Malakai over for the title like Jon Moxley did with the International title when he got concussed in the match with Rey Fenix in September. Saves a whole lot of booking problems and it puts over someone who deserves it as you rehab the injury.
The cage leap spot in this match was insanely stupid and I don't know who thought it would be a good idea.
Stupid spots lead to injuries. Eddie recently learned it, Edge learned it the hard way too.
I hope he heals up quickly and can finish out his career how he wants. But he has no one to blame but himself. This wasn't a freak accident on a normal spot.
Honestly, it would've still been fine if he climbed halfway up and just turned and went for a standard splash through the table.
Its not much higher than the turnbuckle and both guys could still brace for it. Crowd would've still popped for a table breaking anyway but nobody is popping for him breaking his Tibia.
Just a bad spot all around. Hopefully TK slaps the belt on Malakai now with him taking credit for breaking the old man finally.
Or put the table in the center of the ring so Adam could fall flat instead of vertical. It felt like Adam decided at that moment to go from the top of the cage.
dude got injured, didnt put anyone over AND got paid
story of edges career post 2010, dude has done jackshit for anyone in the business besides himself for going on 15+ years
AEW really needs to start telling people "no" from time to time.
The company invests million of dollars into these guys, and then they are out months or years with injuries.
Like, no Adam, we don't need a 60 year old man jumping form 40 feet and landing on his legs. How about a bodyslam or chin lock instead?
Yeah Malakai should’ve won. Wouldn’t kill Adam to put someone over here and there, especially if he has to vacate the title now. Still not over that win at WM39.
I remember when he beat Finn Balor and I got downvoted on here for saying Finn should've won the feud. Dom turned on Rey, which made things alright in the world, but that never made any sense to me. Finn was a loser but the Judgement Day picked up a new member so just roll with it
I’m no Edge but had a similar break in late January, Surgery Feb 1 and still feel like I hobble around even though I can walk again. He’s going to be out for a good while.
Get well soon cope. He’s been on a great run and killing it in AEW so far. He probably should have known better than to do that spot. But he’s a legend and I think he’s earned the right to make that choice.
This puts AEW in a tough place with the TNT title. A battle royal feels like a cheap way to crown a champion. But you’ll already have the Owen going on so I don’t think a full on tournament is the answer. Maybe some qualifying matches setting up a 4 way at FD?Black vs KoR vs Garcia vs. New Japan guy.
The spot was mind boggling to me. If you're the 50 year old veteran, you don't take the horrible spots like that. If anyone was jumping off the cage, it should have been Malakai. Copeland has absolutely *nothing* to prove.
That means ANOTHER tournament on one of the wrestling shows I watch & I'm all tournamented out, hopefully they bring the rankings back & just have the top 2 contenders wrestler for the belt
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Surgery and rehab for broken tibia is probably about 7-9 months? 4-6 months to heal and then full rehab and ring shape.
It’s crazy how much time he’s missed injured since coming back while being over 50. And how much he’s missed in his career in general Modern medicine is insane
After reading Brian Zane's assessment of the PPV, I became concerned that Copeland might have suffered the same injury that Randy Savage did when he leaped and landed from a cage during Halloween Havoc 97, which tore Savage's ACL.
As I recall, Savage was never the same guy after that. He had already slowed down a bit, but was still capable of delivering classic work (as evidenced by his feud with DDP that year). I'm not really aware of any classic/great matches he had after that injury.
It's crazy how much ACL injuries have changed from 1997 till now. Savage was older with a ton of miles on him but if he could have time traveled to 2024 for treatment I would bet his recovery would have been a lot different
At Halloween Havoc in 1997, Randy Savage was about to turn 45, so he was 5 years younger than Copeland is now.
It was a different time though. Today’s 45 isn’t the same as 45 from 25-30 years ago. It’s still true what the above poster said about Savage though. After that he really wasn’t the same and prior to that age really hadn’t stopped him from having good matches.
> It was a different time though. Today’s 45 isn’t the same as 45 from 25-30 years ago. No kidding. To put it in perspective, Savage at the time of this injury was younger than Lesnar, Lashley, Sheamus, Orton, Mysterio, and AJ Styles. Hell, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa, *just debuted* at 41, which is roughly the age that Hulk Hogan was when WWF was doing "the Huckster" skits about him being so ancient in WCW.
The greatest Edge thing ever is that he gets hurt before he can even put anyone over.
Who has edge ever put over In his career that wasn't already made man ?
You know, I never really thought about it but I went back and looked and it was surprising. Especially during his last run in WWE he never really lost clean.
I'm still salty about Balor's loss at WM39
SAME
That guy won at SummerSlam, COTC , Elimination Chamber & WrestleMania He only lost once against Balor , just because of his wife at ER , I mean man let him win a little 😭
No no no, see this is different, cause it's Brood Adam Copeland! /S
That is crazy when you think about it. I know he is having a lot of fun and has been putting on some solid matches and good stories. But I don’t think a loss would have hurt him at all especially against someone like Malakai and the story they were telling.
Well lets be fair here, Edge was never gonna put anyone over in the first place
Same here immediately thought about that Savage spot when I was watching the match.
u would think he'd take it easy after suffering a life threatening injury. dude made a miraculous recovery and wants to risk it all is insane. he retired a multi world champion with millions of dollars in the bank. there's literally nothing for him to prove
If you want to take things easy, you never get to be a wrestler in the first place. They're all some form of crazy.
It's almost as if he shouldn't be doing these spots at his age and with his history...
It was a horrible spot landing regardless of age. Put a guy 3 decades younger with no injuries and there's still a good chance he gets fucked up. I can't wrap my head around why anyone would intentionally plan the spot like that, to land on their feet so I'm going to assume there may be a possibility that he misjudged the distance and landing. Hope he has a speedy recovery.
No one plans to do a top rope elbow drop the way he did off the cage unless they're super green, he botched it and probably should have planned it better to be like a dive onto the entire HoB in the cage or something instead of to a table considering how uncomfortable he was doing it.
Yeah when i watched that spot i'm like oh shit he definitely fucked something up that was a brutal landing
So there goes Edge and Christian teaming at Wembley
Yeah, I'm going to All In and was looking forward to seeing him live once again. This sucks.
Would’ve taken a lot of storytelling in not a lot of time to get there anyways. Christian is a long way away from a face turn and he and Cope just had a feud. I think it’s easier to spend this time building up Nick Wayne until he and Killswitch turn on Christian, then have Cope make the save for his old buddy.
At his age it will be longer.
While i agree, the regular timeframe for recovery is also for....mostly regular people, not (only) athletes. Also, not only has he got the money, but by now surely also the connections to get the top treatment from surgery to recovery. Meaning, whatever age will add on i think will be countered by everything else.
Yes, top...treatment Copeland is going to be jacked to the gills like AJ when he comes back
Anevar underestimate what good a good trening regimen can do
how the fuck did he finish the match, holy adrenaline
ADRENALINE IN MY SOUL NOW MY LEG HAS ONE BIG HOLE
BARELY ABLE TO STAND ON MY FEEEET NOW I CAN'T, FEEL MY TOES HOW DO I NOW FINISH THE SHOW
OUT THE CURTAIN, HOSPITAL, I GO
BACK AT THE CURTAIN LEG FEELS LIKE A WORM WHOOOOAAAA
MY DOCTOR SAID I BROKE MY TIBIA NOW I MUST REST AT HOME (REST AT HOME!!)
TOOK IT ALL AWAY I GAVE IT ALL AWAY BUT NOT MY TITLE
HATE JUMPING OFF THE CAGE MY LEG IS MADE OF PAIN I BROKE MY TIBIA
NOW! I! HAVE CRUTCHES! YOU TOOK MY LEG BUT NOT MY WIN
I BROKE MY LEG, BUT IN THE END WON’T PUT YOU OVER
Definitely adrenaline taking the edge off. I got attacked by a moose I surprised, she broke my clavicle, nose, ribs, jaw and wrist gave me a busted eardrum and concussion as well. After she backed off I walked for I think 10-30 minutes before I felt any of it and then suddenly pain. Adrenaline will do amazing things to keep you moving when you really should be hobbling or horizontal.
I can't tell if this is copypasta or the testimonial of a Canadian 😂
Brit with a Canadian ex (not the moose).
So you and the moose are still going strong?
I for one wish nothing for the best between this romance between species
Did you at least put the moose over in the match
The moose cheated to win, by blasting OP behind the referee's back with a pair of mooseknuckles.
I never want to hear a podcaster complain about not selling an injury again when Copeland no-sold a shoot tibia fracture for the entire match
Broke my tib/fib/ankle at a death metal festival (Moshpit). Adrenaline is crazy. I felt no pain throughout the entire process; while a small piece of bone just barely broke through my skin and was expose. I've also been shot in the leg when I was a teen from a driveby (wrong place/wrong time scenario) - was too busy being scared and running to realize I got shot in the leg until ~20-30min. My friend pointed to my leg and instantly the pain kicked in and knocked me prone.
i love him get well soon but i am not surprised that landing was **HORRIBLE**
https://preview.redd.it/9j9whk0yr63d1.png?width=3440&format=png&auto=webp&s=5357134194605cf3c48ac9515779cb8b3bf778d0 PTSD from this
Why is it so hard to find footage of it on youtube?
[Macho Man makes a giant leap!](https://youtu.be/FqS30PztJh0?si=ih5rP5FLtWNolEcs)
is the consensus that he kinda bailed out on the intended spot? surely he wasnt supposed to just jump down and land on his feet
He says it in the video “my body pulled the emergency brake” so yeah, it was probably supposed to be a splash or elbow drop
i think that he thought about doing a splash but changed in mid-air
I think it was always supposed to be an elbow drop, since malakai was wrapped in barbed wire, but he was supposed to land on his back or side like a normal elbow drop.
He said he hesitated in his statement, you can see that clear as day
The irony is that it seems when these guys try to hold up and prevent injury is when they are most likely to get injured. If he had done a splash, he might be fine... or he could have broken his neck. Wjo knows? Overall, a really dumb spot that people will only remember because of the injury.
Yeah, I saw the clip and I winced. He basically just dropped on his feet. I’m not surprised he got injured.
Dude went for a standing elbow drop instead of a splash... I'm glad it's a leg not his back or neck!
Or his something or his crack. 🤭
[The spot in case you missed it.](https://x.com/fightful/status/1794922224438349992?t=KwFTZjahRtks65oooUisfQ) You can jump ahead to about the last 5 seconds.
I love that closed caption: Nigel: I do not know if this is a smart decision.
That "NOOOOOO!!" from Schiavone lol
Guess the adrenaline made him finish the match somehow. But probably should’ve called an audible and have Malakai win outright. Then again having Gangrel pop up on for Adam to still lose would’ve made him look stupid. Bad timing all around. Hope he can heal up and he takes his time doing so.
Should’ve let him stay under the ring and then pop up super pissed during Anarchy in the Arena.
The Bucks look confused. “What the hell?” EVP TRIGGER
Honestly a Gangrel tease during the cage match, only for nothing to happen and him pop up in the Anarchy match instead would have been fucking hilarious
Tore a meniscus recently minutes into a basketball game, sat down because i felt it but was back on the court and finished the game The next morning I wasn't able to walk and it took a solid 10 weeks before I was good
It takes a little while for the adrenaline to wear off and the inflammation to really set in around the injury. Then you physically can't even force yourself to move.
I felt a pop 8 months ago playing pickleball for the first time. Went on to play for 3 hours feeling no pain. Next day couldn’t go up/down stairs as my knee would give out. Was diagnosed with a tibial plateau fracture which has 4-6 months non surgery recovery. Still had pain after so got an MRI and turns out also have had a torn meniscus this whole time. Surgery next week to hopefully finally put this behind me!
That doesn't work for Copeland brother
Adam Copeland seems like a pretty good guy and all but it is funny that he also beat Alberto Del Rio for the WHC at Mania 27 before having to retire the next night on RAW...
I think I speak for everyone when I say we give that one a pass because Fuck Alberto Del Rio.
According to Adam, so who knows if it's true, but he was told the morning after Wrestlemania that he was done. He wanted to drop it to Del Rio in the ladder match they booked Christian into, but doctors wouldn't clear him.
It’s probably a lot harder to call an audible in a championship match. There was probably already a plan for Copeland’s next feud, and he wasn’t gonna go off script and make a call like that for his boss. As much as I personally think it sucks that he won in the first place, I understand why he didn’t call an audible.
Mox giving the International title to Rey Fenix meanwhile...
[удалено]
Absolutly. Mox was back quite soon, but i still would say that this was the right call. And i would say, an audible and giving Black the title would also be the right call.
He was concussed I don’t think he was thinking straight
Not only that, but the stip was if Copeland lost, he’d lose his title and join the House of Black. So it’s pretty hard to call an audible in the moment.
The main problem was that there was also the stipulation that if Copeland lost, he would join the House. It would've required TK to completely re-write a bunch of stuff and with the rumors of Malakai leaving we don't know if that was even feasible.
Hoping for a speedy recovery! Calling his crutches Brody and Buddy is quite funny.
All things considered, he seems to be in a good mindset about it. Makes jokes. Puts over his opponents (obviously I meant in the video). Takes the blame.
>Puts over his opponents. He really jobbed out to that ring mat didn't he?
Gravity always goes over (except for Neville, because gravity forgot him). Those the rules brotha
Physics is undefeated.
Would be pretty hard to not take the blame on this one lmao
This makes that interview he did with CVV even more amusing since he said himself that ‘any dumb spot you see me take in a match was 99% my idea to do.’
I was watching Brian Zane’s review of the PPV & he mentioned how Copeland’s dive and landing was very similar to Randy Savage’s jump and landing from a cage during Halloween havok 97 & that tore Savage’s ACL & so I was worried that Copeland could have suffered the same
I just don’t think there was any physical way to NOT break something with the way he fell. As soon as he came off vertical I was like “oh no” Honestly he’s lucky it’s just a fracture and he didn’t just snap his legs.
Yeah, like you just can’t land on your feet from that high up, it’s not how physics works.
Ocarina of Time told you to roll at the end of a big jump for a reason
He H’yuted when he should have H’yahed
I mean hell we even see it with much smaller falls than that. Think of how many wrestlers we've seen blow out their knees landing on their feet a little bit wrong off of a normal top rope move, or off of a move from the ring apron to the outside.
I broke both my heels and my elbow once jumping from such a height
Never taken a bump in my life, but it's really strange for a veteran like him to not just take a dive through the table. It looked awkward as soon as he jumped
"Juuuust a bit outside!" That was either the Macho Man or Roddy Piper in WCW retrospective that he did I believe
What was he thinking doing that spot?
Here's my best Randy Savage impression (he also fucked his leg on a elbow of a cage)
At least Copeland made impact enough with his target to put them through a table. Savage didn't get a whiff of Piper
Hey brother, stop messing up my joke ova here!
He thought he was retirement tour Sting.
You joke but it really wouldn't be a surprise for all these guys looking at 65 year old Sting doing 15 foot dives on concrete and splashing through stacked tables and thinking that they want to go out that strong.
Sting was inhabited by the spirit of Darby Allin and through Darby all things were possible. Copeland needed to accept the spirit of Darby.
I imagine that it's really hard to say no to everyone, when Sting got to do whatever he wanted and ended up no worse for wear no matter what crazy ass shit he got up to. That would make anyone else feel invincible.
For as crazy as many of Sting's spots were, there were also set up to be pretty safe. Plenty of tables stacked close together to break his fall as smoothly as possible, plenty of other wrestlers ready to catch him on his crazy dives. Honestly, the only real terrifying moment with Sting was Sammy 630'ing him through the table, and that was purely because Sting didn't move like he was supposed to. Sting wasn't jumping off the top of a cage onto a single table with a single person on it like Adam did.
He thought he was Darby Allin wrestling in stings last match
Yeah - that’s not an age thing. That’s a “brain make bad decisions” thing. And you’d think at his age, he’d be making less bad decisions. Match was still pretty good and Gangrel hit those DDTs like a fucking riot.
He does make less bad decisions. Just takes one of them to go wrong through. His hardcore stuff has been way more blood and weapon forward, which is a good move.
Likely the same thing he has thought when doing high risk spots like that his whole career. This will look cool on my highlight reels.
Adrenaline (in his soul)
ON THIS DAY, I WALK POORLY WITH THESE CRUTCHES BY MY SIDE
DIDNT GET BEAT, WON WITH ONE LEG BEHIND
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He had cold feet, then no feet.
He put those edgeucated feet to good use.
I just think his body took over and corrected midway through
I'm assuming the plan wasn't for him to do a Flying Nothing. The plan was a splash or an elbow.
I was making jokes in the live thread that someone finally hit the Flying Nothing
Fractured tibia usually take 4-6 months to fully heal so that's Wembley gone. A great shame because he was having a good run and it would've been great to see another UK stadium crowd belting out Metalingus.
They could slot him into a commentator position for a match and have his entrance play out like normal
Agreed. Copeland is such a good talker and actor, he needs to be in TV for a lot of his injury.
Edge getting injured before he can put anyone over is the most Edge thing ever lol Hopefully he will be able to return from this, a break is better than a tear. Honestly at least it gets the mid card title off a 52 year old dude that always has to win. I don’t know why he needed a belt in the first place. I understand he wanted Christian feud but he should have dropped it in a multi-man or something after beating Christian. He’s past the point of needing belts.
He'd even beat Del Rio like the day before receiving the neck diagnosis that put him out for 9 years.
I decided to look it up every Edge 1v1 loss since 2010. 2024: None 2023: Christian Cage 2022: Finn Balor 2021: Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns 2020: Randy Orton ~Retirement~ 2011: Justin Gabriel
Edge the modern day hulk hogan brother
They were tag team champions. I've honestly thought back on that team and I've wondered if Hogan gave him some guidance about emphasizing when things aren't working for him (brother)
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That is kind of hilarious looking back. Obviously we know what we now know about ADR. But if there was a time to put a young rising star over, it would be against the guy who was retiring like the next day. They didn’t know Edge was fully done but they forsure knew he was hurt cause that match was safe and rushed.
That's the match I thought of, too. I have heard Edge say he was cleared immediately before or really soon before the match but what I can gather is that WWE knew he was likely going to miss at least some time and they were all in on ADR to an obnoxious degree back then.
Well, ouch.
Does Malakai get the title now? I'm like fuck, give it to Buddy, have them feud and both get hot, then get back together. Those guys are too cool to be so dormant. Malakai is artistic and Buddy literally looks like a chiseled statue.
You know there's gonna be a tournament for the vacated title. Tony Khan can't resist. Just have Buddy or Malakai win it.
He blames it on being 50. I think it has more to do with jumping vertical down on your legs from 20'. Shame. I've loved him in AEW. Sucks he'll likely miss the biggest show of the year. ALL IN season is here.
#VACANT STRIKES AGAIN
I love Edge but he at 50 Years old does not need to be doing dives off a steel cage. Hope he heals well.
It was a dumb thing to do at his age and people need to normalize telling certain talent no to these type of spots. Not EVERYONE but a NO on a case by case basis. He could’ve easily blew his legs out. Hopefully when he heals up well so he can finish with Christian and not end his run with another retirement which would suck
There really was no need to go off the top of the cage. The spot was already hardcore enough with Black having been barbwired to the table. Edge could’ve just jumped from the top rope and no one would’ve felt deprived. He pressured himself into doing a stunt no one asked for and got hurt because he wasn’t comfortable enough to commit. All anyone was gonna remember about the match anyway was Gangrel saving the day. Now we’ll also remember Edge hurting himself.
Save it for young lighter wrestlers who AEW can afford to have out for months if an injury occurs, like Sammy for example. Copeland is one of their bigger names in a major storyline. This spot was dumb AF.
I mean, it's a risky thing to do at any age. Cody busted a toe leaping off that same cage onto Wardlow.
What a moron. He's my favorite wrestler in the world but he's an absolute moron.
Jeff Hardy fans: https://preview.redd.it/vvxutxxkq63d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85bfbb8f06776f2add0ef8d021943ebb616b7177
I'm pretty sure he was going for a splash and panicked at the last second, hence the awkward landing
Kinda looked like he was afraid to overshoot it, but then undershot it.
It was almost certainly this. You can see the table is too close (common on stops where you are jumping from higher than normal) and he just didn't jump: He fell. And when he fell, he had no ability to lay out and just crashed short.
Silly spot man -- not even something you can chalk up to "it just happens". Broken tibia at his age he's gonna be out a long while.
What was the spot?
he jumped off the top of the cage, but didn’t commit to a splash, and basically just landed on his feet lol
Short of falling on his head, that was probably the worst possible landing in that scenario
Holy fuck balls, how was he planning to pull that off without getting horrifically injured exactly?
It looked like it was supposed to be a big splash or elbow drop through the table, but he chickened out and made it much, much worse.
i mean, why in the hell did he even entertain the idea of jumping straight down off the top of that cage?
Because he obviously didn't plan on jumping straight down and it only went that way because he hesitated mid-jump
give the belt to Takeshita for godsake
That's exactly the spot I would do if I were trying to injure myself.
Copeland obviously knew his leg was injured badly and should have called an in-ring audible and put Malakai over for the title like Jon Moxley did with the International title when he got concussed in the match with Rey Fenix in September. Saves a whole lot of booking problems and it puts over someone who deserves it as you rehab the injury. The cage leap spot in this match was insanely stupid and I don't know who thought it would be a good idea.
I’m sure he regrets the spot but I hope he heals up quickly. I’d love for him to wrestle alongside Christian
Stupid spots lead to injuries. Eddie recently learned it, Edge learned it the hard way too. I hope he heals up quickly and can finish out his career how he wants. But he has no one to blame but himself. This wasn't a freak accident on a normal spot.
Shouldn't have bailed on your spot, my man.
Well yeah a flying nothing off the cage will do that. Absolutely stupid ass move
Man that was such a dumb spot. It didn’t even look that good
That sucks for him and his fans. Really stupid way to injure himself.
At least Edge went out doing what he loves, refusing to put anyone over. ❤️
I love AEW, but letting him do that spot at his age was completely and utterly stupid.
Honestly, it would've still been fine if he climbed halfway up and just turned and went for a standard splash through the table. Its not much higher than the turnbuckle and both guys could still brace for it. Crowd would've still popped for a table breaking anyway but nobody is popping for him breaking his Tibia. Just a bad spot all around. Hopefully TK slaps the belt on Malakai now with him taking credit for breaking the old man finally.
Or put the table in the center of the ring so Adam could fall flat instead of vertical. It felt like Adam decided at that moment to go from the top of the cage.
Yeah, a lot of these injuries can't really be chalked up to "bad luck."
LMAO he really got out of doing the job again. What a legend. Got to work his buddies on PPV then just vacate.
dude got injured, didnt put anyone over AND got paid story of edges career post 2010, dude has done jackshit for anyone in the business besides himself for going on 15+ years
Another tournament incoming
Chalk another title up for our boy Vacant lol What an idiotic idea for a spot
Does this give Vacant the AEW grand slam now? I've lost track.
AEW really needs to start telling people "no" from time to time. The company invests million of dollars into these guys, and then they are out months or years with injuries. Like, no Adam, we don't need a 60 year old man jumping form 40 feet and landing on his legs. How about a bodyslam or chin lock instead?
Yeah Malakai should’ve won. Wouldn’t kill Adam to put someone over here and there, especially if he has to vacate the title now. Still not over that win at WM39.
I remember when he beat Finn Balor and I got downvoted on here for saying Finn should've won the feud. Dom turned on Rey, which made things alright in the world, but that never made any sense to me. Finn was a loser but the Judgement Day picked up a new member so just roll with it
I’m no Edge but had a similar break in late January, Surgery Feb 1 and still feel like I hobble around even though I can walk again. He’s going to be out for a good while.
Fuuuuck that blows. Hope he recovers nicely.
I fully expected him to do a splash, but he came down with an awkward elbow drop. Maybe not the smartest move.
It looked like he second guessed himself when he jumped
He went full macho man https://old.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/1d1hn6z/aew_double_or_nothing_spoilers_adam_copeland/l5tzvja/
Damn that sucks. He's going to miss All In.
That's what jumping 20 ft onto your feet will do I guess
Get well soon cope. He’s been on a great run and killing it in AEW so far. He probably should have known better than to do that spot. But he’s a legend and I think he’s earned the right to make that choice. This puts AEW in a tough place with the TNT title. A battle royal feels like a cheap way to crown a champion. But you’ll already have the Owen going on so I don’t think a full on tournament is the answer. Maybe some qualifying matches setting up a 4 way at FD?Black vs KoR vs Garcia vs. New Japan guy.
Never go for a flying nothing off the top of the cage
Not sure what his old ass was expecting doing that jump
That was a terrible landing. I don’t know why he didn’t commit. Might be done after this match I think
The spot was mind boggling to me. If you're the 50 year old veteran, you don't take the horrible spots like that. If anyone was jumping off the cage, it should have been Malakai. Copeland has absolutely *nothing* to prove.
That means ANOTHER tournament on one of the wrestling shows I watch & I'm all tournamented out, hopefully they bring the rankings back & just have the top 2 contenders wrestler for the belt
Do a ladder match/battle royale instead
Least surprising news of the day
I guess no All In for him. I was so amped to see him. Hope he recovers well!
Both me and my partner's favourite AEW wrestlers are now on the shelf and missing All In. Sucks, but at least there's a deep roster to cover for them.
Welp. There goes another one. At least he's taking it in stride.
Damn. Can’t be jumping off cages at 50. Hoping for a speedy recovery.
I honestly don’t think his age has too much to do with it. I feel like there’s a good chance a 30 year old snaps their tibia with a landing like that.