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Adam Copeland Reveals When He Will Retire From Wrestling

AEW star Adam Copeland doesn't believe he has long left of his in-ring career, confirming in a recent interview that this current contract will likely be his last one.
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Adam Copeland has already undergone one retirement in his career. And now, 14 years on from his premature departure from in-ring action in 2011, the former AEW TNT Champion has revealed when his permanent retirement will arrive.

The Artist Formerly Known as Edge was first forced to call it a day in 2011 due to cervical spinal stenosis. His last match up to that point had been a successful World Heavyweight Championship defense in the opening match of WrestleMania 27 against Alberto Del Rio.

Now 18 months into being All Elite, Copeland knows that his next final match is not far away, as he confirmed during a recent appearance on First Up with Korolnek & Colaiacovo.

"The schedules are far better now than they used to be. If you asked me to try and pull off the over 200 days a year that I pulled before, there's absolutely no way because the recovery just takes too long now. So, I realize now I'm 51 years old. I figure I got 'til maybe 53, the end of this contract and then I think it's probably time to call it a day and just get out while I can still limp away and then lick my wounds and do a whole lot of yoga after."
Adam Copeland

Elsewhere in the interview, Copeland also admitted the brutal reality of coping with the wear and tear on his 51-year-old body, revealing it now takes him a week to walk straight after a match.

The former WWE Champion was last seen on AEW television being destroyed by former friends FTR after they failed to win the Trios Titles together.

h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription

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Joe Baiamonte is a contributing writer for The Takedown On SI, joining the team in April, 2025. Joe has been covering professional wrestling, sports and entertainment for over a decade, serving as editor at SPORTbible between 2014 and 2018 - where he helped the team to three consecutive Football Blogging Awards - and as head of sport at Unilad. Joe has written for numerous outlets in the United Kingdom and United States, including The Sportsman, Sporf, Pubity, GiveMeSport and The Sportster, interviewing the likes of Neymar, Harry Kane, Ruud Gullit, Triple H, Ric Flair, Cody Rhodes, Becky Lynch, Rey Mysterio, Aaron Boone, Alex Cora, Chris Sale and Chase Uttley. He has a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism and Broadcasting from the University of Salford and currently resides in Manchester, England, having been raised just down the road in Burnley. He briefly moved to Croatia with his family after the birth of his son, where he spent an entire summer writing on the beach and eating squid.

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