Cope: To Do The Greatest Hits With Christian Cage Would Have Gotten Old Quickly, We Didn’t Want To Lose His Character

Since Cope (Adam Copeland aka Edge in WWE) joined AEW in October 2023, fans wondered when he and Christian Cage would reunite as a team. After feuding over the AEW TNT Title, and Cope missing extended time with a leg injury, the reunion finally started to take shape at AEW All In 2025.

After Christian went to find himself, the reunion became official, though Christian was still an asshole.

“That’s the most fun part, to start writing a new chapter, but also have it be a different chapter. We’re not just coming back and running the greatest hits,” Cope told The Score. “We’re doing two different characters now and maintaining that going into this thing, which makes for this unlikely Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets, ‘Can they get along?’ That’s a really fun dynamic. That is what I think is making it different. Eventually, if you come back and do the greatest hits, that might get old fairly quickly. This is a new version of our team and it’s a version that never existed before. Christian found his lane, his pocket. To lose that to do this team, that would have sucked. We were able to figure out how to do this, to sit down, and how to write this so that didn’t get lost. Now we have this dynamic of, it’s up to me to make him likable and understand that you have to accept him for all of his dickheadishness.

“It was key that he came into it like that, still without anything likable about him. The only thing that makes him likable is I’m saying, ‘Hey, we just have to accept him for this thing that he is.’ It’s really fun and it makes it feel fresh. For both of us, too, because as a performer, eventually you come back and do the same greatest hits, and okay, it’s probably going to get old for us too.”

Cope & Christian will face FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) at AEW All Out.

Elsewhere during the interview, Cope commented on John Cena paying homage to him by hitting a spear against Sami Zayn. You can find his full comments here.

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