Adam Copeland Admits Uncertainty Over AEW Return

Adam Copeland is on the road to recovery after breaking his leg in an AEW ring but the WWE Hall of Famer admits he still doesn’t know when he’ll return.

At AEW Double or Nothing in Las Vegas, Adam Copeland retained the TNT Championship in a brutal Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match against Malakai Black.

The match featured all kinds of weapons being used but disaster struck when Copeland jumped off the cage and landed on his legs while delivering an elbow drop onto Black, who was on a table.

That cage spot led to Copeland suffering a broken leg which required surgery to fix. Adam Copeland then relinquished the TNT Title and it is now held by Jack Perry who retained the belt in a Coffin Match against Darby Allin at All In.

No Timeframe For Adam Copeland’s AEW Return

Speaking to Sports Illustrated, Adam Copeland gave the latest update on his injury and revealed that while he didn’t know what to expect with a broken leg, he’s glad his recovery has not been as gruelling as when he injured his Achilles:

It feels really good. I got the surgery. I guess it was June 1, by the time I finally got the surgery done. So I guess yesterday was three months. I’ve never broken my leg before, so I didn’t know what that entailed.

With my Achilles, it was a process. This is not that, which is good, because the Achilles, I was working eight hours a day on that thing. It became a full-time job and I got back in six months. But it was a lot of grinding of teeth. This isn’t that more than anything.

Copeland continued explaining that he now has a plate in his leg but admits he doesn’t know when he’ll be able to return to the ring in AEW:

It’s trying to get the power back and flexibility from bringing your toes to your knee. That’s the last area that doesn’t want to go yet because the plate goes down to the ankle because it was a lower fracture. It was a lower tibia fracture, so the plate butts up against that ankle bone. I think that’ll be what I need to get through in order to be able to get all of that power back.

I don’t know what a timeframe is. I don’t know any of that. I know that now I can walk, get in the ring, and move around a little bit, but I still feel the deficiency. So, I know I still have some work to do to return to where I need to be.

While Copeland remains on the sidelines, his old tag team partner Christian Cage is in line for an AEW World Title shot after he won the Casino Gauntlet match at All In.