For the first time in 25 years, Adam Copeland and Christian Cage were able to call themselves tag team champions when they defeated FTR in an I Quit match at Double or Nothing.
Copeland and Cage have reigned supreme over the tag team division since then, dispatching The Death Riders and The Dogs in separate matches. The type of run that Copeland and Cage have put together since he joined All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is exactly what he wanted when he came to the company. Copeland wasn’t looking for a nostalgia act.
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“Just fun and exactly the type of reason I came to AEW is to go after these things that I still wanted to go after but I knew weren’t going to be possible unless I made that that move and to get a chance to team with him and totally recreate the team and not have it just be the thing we used to do,” he told Fox News Digital. “It’s like we’re a team again, but we’re an entirely different team and we should be because we’ve experienced so much and gone through so much throughout our careers that we bring all of that now and to just go and try and rehash the chump stain stuff, I don’t know, it almost be a disservice to us. Like we put in enough work in between to create and carve these character paths for ourselves that to just throw that to the wayside so we could do a nostalgia run, that didn’t feel right. And that was the discussions we had going into this is trying to make sure that it didn’t just feel like a rehash.
“And I think we’ve been successful in that. We tried to change things like we never had a finishing move as a team. Like that’s insane. We never had a finishing move. Our finishing move was a concerto which is illegal. So, what we always did is just cheat and we were heels so it worked. But this incarnation is different. So, it was before Forbidden Door, I was like, ‘Hey, I was thinking about this pop-up spear thing.’ We hadn’t tried it. We’re just like, OK, we’ll try it out there in London at the O2 for the first time ever in our first match back in 15 years. It was like, ‘Oh, yeah, we hit it. Okay, we still got that thing.’”
Now, Copeland and Cage are getting ready to take on the Young Bucks – Matt and Nick Jackson – at All In with the AEW World Tag Team Championship on the line.
Copeland had made note in a social media post that the Young Bucks were on his list of opponents he wanted to face. The same list included historic venues he wanted to wrestle in, including Arena México.
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For Copeland, the Young Bucks have been for a little while.
“Oh, they’ve been on the list from the time that any kind of reality of me and AEW started to come to fruition,” he told Fox News Digital. “FTR, Young Bucks, team-wise, like, those are like got to do that, have to do that. They were definitely on the list, but also too, didn’t fully know if Christian and I, were going to get back to teaming. So, it’s like, OK, want to we got to make sure it’s right and the right time and try and fit it into this story and into that to try.
“So, really it was it was the match with Mox that was the vehicle to get him and I going as a team again and for him to lose the Casino Royale opportunity because of his selfishness and then for me to go, ‘See your selfishness isn’t working, man.’ And then taking the turn of, OK, but you’re selfish, that’s you. And then I just got to accept it and then we could kind of start running and that’s just been really fun. When I think of a word, the only one that comes to mind is we’ve just been having fun and I get to live vicariously through Jay’s character. So, like I’m like what if you said this and he’s like, oh, and some of the things, man, like it it’s just it’s so much. It’s just fun.”
All In is set to take place on Aug. 30 at Wembley Stadium in London.
