Adam Copeland, also known as Edge, revealed on Chris Jericho’s podcast that he discussed his original plans for his role in the Judgment Day faction in WWE.
Copeland left WWE for AEW last month when his contract expired. He wrestled Luchasaurus in his AEW in-ring debut on Tuesday’s episode of Dynamite. Copeland said,
“It was odd (working at WWE when Vince McMahon resigned as CEO in 2022), because that’s all I knew there, right? And even just in terms of me coming in and out, I missed a lot of things. So I’d come back and go, ‘Oh! This is happening now. Got it. Right’ and just trying to wrap my mind around that because when we were doing Judgment Day, the plan was (Finn) Bálor joins and then about a year later, they all turn on me. Well then I get to Hell in a Cell and it’s like, no, we’re changing everything and we’re speeding up that year-long process and he’s joining tomorrow and turning tomorrow. It wasn’t long and it was just starting to find some legs, but it was gonna be swimming upstream with me in it. It really was and I started to have that realization. It’s like, I don’t think they’re gonna get where they need to get to with me in this thing.”
Copeland added that when Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes got injured, things had to change and he was turned babyface. He said,
“Again, Randy (Orton) got hurt, Cody (Rhodes) got hurt so he’s like, ‘We gotta flip ya.’ It was like, okay, I’m a utility batter. So wherever you need me, that’s where I go and again, Dom (Mysterio), all of that, it all took off and it was great and then to have Rey and I to work with. So, in order to solidify being a heel, we’re two good babyfaces for it.”
