Shortly after WrestleMania 38, Adam Copeland formed The Judgment Day with Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley. Eventually the group went on to recruit Finn Balor, and Copeland was kicked out the same night that Balor joined the group. It was rumored at the time that WWE wanted to take The Judgment Day concept in a more supernatural direction.
Recently Adam Copeland appeared on the Not Sam Wrestling podcast and he talked about some of the more bizarre ideas that were pitched for the group when he was still a part of it.
“At one point it was talked about a cauldron with bubbling black fluid and I’m holding a pitchfork. I was like, ‘Woahh..I don’t want to do that because that’s not going to work.’ There was one week, they wanted us to float to the ring. ‘What?’ ‘No, we’ll put it on a dolly.’ Then, I’m sitting on a throne and Priest is full core engaged because he’s basically surfing holding onto this thing, and all I felt going as we’re going down was ‘This is Spinal Tap. This is Spinal Tap.’
We got to the back and I was like, ‘I don’t think that entrance works, guys.’ But, it was, ‘I’ll give it a shot.’ It ain’t my sandbox. I don’t cut the checks. This is what you want, I’ll try and make it work, but I’ll also be the first one to tell you, ‘That didn’t work. We probably shouldn’t do that anymore, right?'”
The Judgment Day has certainly come a long way since 2022 as the group now includes Damian Priest, Rhea Ripley, Finn Balor, Dominik Mysterio and JD McDonagh. Currently they are one of the most dominant stables in all of WWE.
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