Adam Copeland Reveals His Final Career Goal in Wrestling

He has held multiple championships in wrestling, and done almost everything there is to do, but there’s one final goal that Adam Copeland says he wants to get to in order to be content with his career. And it isn’t winning the AEW World Championship.

“To finally end it on on my terms, or as close to my terms as possible,” he told Ariel Helwani. “To not be told, ‘That’s it, you’re done,’ [but] for me to be able to say, okay, that’s it, I’m done. That is really the last thing for me, for contentment in terms of my wrestling career.”

As to when that will be, he’s spitballing that it’ll take approximately a year. “There’s some nights after a match where I’m like, ‘Whoa, okay, yeah, I got a year left, tops,'” he said. “Um, and then there’s times where I’m in, you know, in there and I’m feeling great and go, ‘Ah, man. I could probably do a little more than a year, but do I want to?’ Um, what do my kids want, more than anything?…I think they’d rather me be home, and just doing occasional acting gigs that their friends think is cool, you know, cuz suddenly I’m cool to all their friends again because I’m Ares [on Percy Jackson and the Olympians].”

Whether those terms include going out as a cowardly heel remains to be seen.