The AEW Full Gear pay-per-view aired live from Phoenix, AZ on Saturday night and Adam Copeland stepped into the ring to challenge Kazuchika Okada for the AEW International Championship. Unfortunately for Copeland he didn’t win the belt, and it sounds like he had a rough time getting to the venue.
During the AEW Full Gear post-show media scrum, Copeland talked about his travel day and he revealed that Tony Khan actually sent a plane to come get him due to the issues with the FAA grounding all flights on Friday.
“It’s been challenging to say the least. I think that’s the word everyone keeps saying. But I was going down the runway, about to take off for Denver and then the pilot came on and said, there’s a ground stoppage nationwide.”
“I called Beth and she came and got me. I went home, no idea if I was going to be able to make it today. All of my flights started getting canceled, canceled one after the other after the other. So Tony Khan sent a plane to come get us and poor Schiavone got there early. So he was sitting there at 9 o’clock, I think. We weren’t taking off to 11. I was like, come on, have a coffee. Come and pet my dogs. He’s a dog guy.”
Adam Copeland’s time in the ring is limited as he announced a few weeks ago that 2027 will be his final year as an active in-ring competitor. As of this writing plans for his final match haven’t been confirmed, but details regarding the location for his final match have been discussed and you can get more on that here.