Edge Reveals Why He Left WWE To Join AEW

On Sunday night Edge made his big AEW debut at the WrestleDream pay-per-view. Following the show it was revealed that Adam Copeland will be working full-time for AEW and he will wrestle his first match for the company during the October 10 episode of Dynamite.

Copeland made his big return to the ring back in 2020 when he entered the men’s Royal Rumble match and he continued to work with WWE in the years that followed up until his deal expired this month. While talking to CBS Sports about his WWE departure the Hall of Famer noted that he and WWE were hitting creative walls while trying to envision his future with the company.

“I kind of got the sense there wasn’t really a plan [for me in WWE]. I get it because what else do we do? What else is there to do? And after 25 years I’ve literally done everything there. So what do we do? It wasn’t anybody’s fault. I was coming up against creative walls too. I was having a hard time coming up with ideas and that’s not usually the case. I think they were too.

“There was also the conundrum that I was contracted for 10 matches a year. I offered to do more, but to their point, it wouldn’t feel quite as special, which I understood too… It just felt like neither one of us really had any ideas and that’s never been the case before. So when you look at that and then I look at my best friend over there having the time of his life, at a certain point, once I thought, ‘You know what, I still have a window here where I can do this and I don’t feel like I’m maximizing that.’ I think that was really what it boiled down to.

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