Top AEW Star Planning To Wrestle For Two More Years Before Retirement

Top AEW Star Planning To Wrestle For Two More Years Before Retirement AEW

A top AEW star is planning to wrestle for two more years before hanging up his boots for good.

AEW Worlds End on December 30 saw the long-awaited AEW return of Cope (Adam Copeland), confronting Jon Moxley and the Death Riders along with his close friends FTR.

With Cope seemingly set for a main event program with Moxley heading into AEW Revolution in March, the Rated R Superstar doesn’t seem likely to slow down just yet.

Being 51 however, Cope does have an idea of what he wants his retirement to look like, and recently discussed his plans with Stephen Brunt on Up Close.

Cope didn’t name names, but did reveal that he’s aiming to put over a young talent in his final bout, which he pictures happening in around two years time.

He explained:

“That’s going to be the big decision for me. Who do I get in there with last? I’d love to get in there with a young person and just try and strap a rocket to him. In my last match, what can I do to try to get someone set up? Or at least another block in the foundation to set them up to be able to take it further and further.

“I think to Bret [Hart], and I take his example, and I look at what he did for me. He didn’t need to do that. He didn’t need to put that time in and need to care, but he did. That really taught me the whole giving back is true.

“I don’t want to be the old guy who is hanging on. I want wrestle somebody who I feel is going to be part of the future of AEW and just have fun, and experience it together, and after go, ‘Take it and run.’

“I’m thinking maybe two years. Being off with a broken leg has kind of extended it. Six months that I’ve been off, tack that on.”

Cope is set to compete in a 12-man tag team match on this week’s AEW Collision, teaming with FTR, The Outrunners and Powerhouse Hobbs to take on the Death Riders’ Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta and The Learning Tree’s Chris Jericho, Big Bill & Bryan Keith.

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