Adam Copeland Reflects On Dynamic With Christian Cage, Teaming at AEW Dynasty

Adam Copeland and his old frenemy Christian Cage will team up at AEW Dynasty against FTR, and Copeland recently reflected on how their dynamic has changed in AEW. The two are back to being partners in AEW after feuding for much of the time Cope has been in AEW. The two have a different dynamic based on how their character arcs have taken them, something Copeland commented on in an interview with TV Insider.

Copeland noted that they didn’t just want to do the same thing they did in WWE because that’s not who their characters are, and believes that’s a good thing for them. He also spoke about what it means to challenge FTR for the AEW World Tag Team Championships alongside Cage in Canada. You can see the highlights below:

On What It Means To Team With Cage In Canada At AEW Dynasty:

“You throw in the fact FTR are opponents because we have a long history together. All of those elements definitely make it a special one. One that stands out, and one that over the years, if you put a gun to my head and asked me what would be a dream match…Well, Christian and I versus FTR would be on that list. We got to do it in Toronto in our hometown. Now we get to do it in Vancouver. That’s pretty tough to beat. ”

On His Dynamic Now With Cage:

“We don’t want to do the same thing. We’re totally different people and different characters compared to what we were then. This version of us is navigating from a different place. I think that is a good thing. You don’t want to just see guys coming out to do the greatest hits. To me, our character work is one of the most important aspects of this thing, which makes it different. Neither one of us wanted Christian to lose the element of what has made his character so popular. I think if you lose that and he becomes a rah-rah guy, that doesn’t make sense. We needed to do it this way. I think that makes it an interesting dynamic with the partnership because it’s almost completely fresh.

“We just have that history together that people know about. This is a different incarnation compared to where we were before. I think we’re also in a place where we’ve always looked at each other as equals, but this company does that. I think that’s important to our presentation too. We didn’t want to lose elements of our own solo work that has gotten us here. We still come out to separate music because people react to both. It was just a matter of getting it rolling really. One of the reasons I started using Cope is because I knew we’d get to this. C & C sounds a lot better than C & Adam Copeland and C & AC. There is always a method to madness. Now you get to see all these steps we put in place a while ago come into play.”