Following his Barbed Wire Metal Cage match at AEW Double or Nothing on Sunday, there was concern that TNT Champion Adam Copeland had suffered an damage. Although AEW proprietor Tony Khan was not sure of Copeland’s situation instantly following the match, it appears the 50-year-old did not escape Sunday’s PPV unhurt. In a video posted to Copeland’s X web page in the present day, the AEW star confirmed that he fractured his tibia within the match and would require surgical procedure.
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— Adam Copeland (@RatedRCope) Might 28, 2024
Copeland acknowledged that the damage was his physique’s manner of telling him to decelerate and make higher decisions. At one level throughout Sunday’s bout, Copeland carried out a dive from the highest of the cage to hit an elbow drop onto opponent Malakai Black. Whereas it has but to be confirmed, this may increasingly have been the transfer that resulted in Copeland’s damage.
Copeland, beforehand identified in WWE as Edge, was pressured into retirement in 2011 after talking with medical doctors about his varied neck accidents. He returned to the ring in 2020, spending the following three years in WWE earlier than making a shock debut at AEW WrestleDream final October. Since then, Copeland spent a lot of his time occupied by a feud with longtime good friend and tag crew companion Christian Cage, whom Copeland defeated for the TNT Championship in March. Shortly after that, he started a sequence of open challenges earlier than feuding in opposition to the Home of Black.
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Since becoming a member of AEW, Copeland has wrestled greater than 20 matches, together with prolonged singles bouts in opposition to Cage, Brody King, Buddy Matthews, Black, and extra. Copeland not too long ago revealed that he had signed a two-year cope with AEW in 2023 and intends to retire from wrestling when that contract is up.