Adam Copeland Reveals The WrestleMania Run-In That Never Happened
Adam Copeland has lifted the lid on a WrestleMania run-in that he wanted to happen in WWE that never took place.
Adam Copeland has reunited with his old partner Christian Cage in AEW, where they picked up a win over FTR at All Out. However, that win came at a serious cost.
After the match, with Copeland handcuffed to the ropes, FTR dropped Cage with a stuffed pildriver before doing the same to Copeland’s wife, best known to fans as ex-WWE star Beth Phoenix.
Before All Out, Copeland contemplated another reunion he’s had during his career that never got to take place in WWE.
WWE Turned Down Adam Copeland’s WrestleMania Idea
Before becoming The Rated-R Superstar, Copeland was part of The Brood alongside Christian and Gangrel. The trio spooked the roster with their bloodbaths before they went their separate ways.
Speaking with Scott Campbell of The Score, Adam Copeland explained how his idea to feature Gangrel at WrestleMania 39 was rejected by WWE, but that allowed him to revisit the idea in AEW:
So I’ve just been trying to figure out a way to work Gangrel in. Since I was doing it, I would pop back into The Brood character. So it felt like a no-brainer to me. You know, you got the demon, you got Brood, and, let’s have Gangrel involved.
You know, no one else saw it well. The powers that be didn’t see it that way. So okay, well, it’s not my sandbox, but I knew if we ever got there again. I also knew with AEW, Tony would be wide open to it, because more than anything, Tony is a wrestling fan.
He understands that wrestling fans remember, because he remembers, and that was the argument I’d always get, was, ‘Ah, nobody’s gonna remember. Nobody’s gonna remember.’ And I thought, well, that’s what our production team is for, is to put a package together to remind everyone, if they don’t, but also they remember.
So it was nice to be able to do that. And truly, like, I broke my leg probably about 10 minutes before the finish. So I was like, I gotta get through this, because Dave’s coming up, and I really want to see him in this ring and and just have that moment with him, because I don’t feel like, after The Brood, we ever got that kind of moment, it was just one day, ‘hey, we’re gonna split you guys up,’ and we’re like, ‘what? Oh, okay, to do what…’
So to be able to get to do that with Gangrel, that far, you know, with, also with the House of Black, which was characters that totally fit that dynamic, and allowed me to be able to bring The Brood character back, so that that was, that was fun.