AEW Star Adam Copeland Explains Current Dynamic With Longtime Partner Christian Cage

Growing up together in Canada’s Ontario province, Adam “Edge” Copeland and Christian Cage have been best friends for decades and have had the rare opportunity to build their careers in pro wrestling together. Copeland and Cage are reunited in AEW despite the differences in their onscreen characters, which Copeland recently commented on during an interview with TVInsider.

“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,” Copeland said. The wrestler stated that he and Cage wanted to avoid giving fans a version of their “greatest hits” from the past, and that they wanted to stay true to what they’d been doing in the promotion before their reunion. “Neither one of us wanted Christian to lose the element of what has made his character so popular.”

Since their WWE history is well-known among fans, Copeland was adamant about providing something fresh with this run, and part of that is presenting the two on the same footing. “I think we’re also in a place where we’ve always looked at each other as equals, but this company does that,” Copeland stated, referring to WWE’s treatment of Cage in the past. “We still come out to separate music because people react to both.”

The veteran also revealed that he’s been going around as “Cope” because “C&C” sounds better than “C&AC” and that fans will eventually see the method to their madness. “Now you get to see all these steps we put in place a while ago come into play.”

This past weekend at AEW Dynasty, Cage & Cope attempted to win the World Tag Team Championship from FTR but came up short, putting the two teams at 1-1 in the promotion.

WWE’s Liv Morgan Releases First Music Video Ahead Of WrestleMania 42

“Cherry lips and bad energy.” Liv Morgan is spelling out what lies ahead in the forecast for Stephanie Vaquer, with her first-ever music video, “Trouble.”

Last Monday on “WWE Raw,” a tease of the video was aired for a few seconds without any indication or context. Now, all eyes are on the former two-time WWE Women’s World Champion, with 51,126 views in the first hour of its release Monday afternoon. From a parking garage dance scene or two that turns into a ground and pound, to setting a car on fire, all while calmly getting a lower back tattoo ahead of being hauled away by the police, Morgan is ready for her troubling ways to hit the big time on “The Grandest Stage of Them All” in Las Vegas.

The 2026 Women’s Royal Rumble victor chose Vaquer on the February 23 edition of “Raw,” after “La Primera” interrupted a sit-down interview Morgan had prior. The current champion told Morgan, in Spanish, words to the effect that she would show her what a real champion looks like, indicating that Morgan’s title reigns didn’t hold the same weight, recognition, blood, sweat, tears, and hard work that Vaquer’s has. Rather than say who she was going to pick, Morgan clocked Vaquer in the face, solidifying her decision of choosing her.

Both women have been at each other’s throats since that initial beatdown, with Vaquer getting her receipt on Morgan and Roxanne Perez this past Monday. They were left with two visibly big goose egg head bumps. Morgan and Vaquer’s highly personal showdown will be held on Saturday, as Night One of this weekend’s WrestleMania 42 card.

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Cody Rhodes Addresses Backlash Over Pat McAfee’s WrestleMania 42 Involvement

Cody Rhodes Addresses Backlash Over Pat McAfee’s WrestleMania 42 Involvement

Cody Rhodes has addressed the growing backlash surrounding Pat McAfee and his involvement in the WrestleMania 42 storyline with Randy Orton.

McAfee’s role in the program has drawn criticism from fans, with some questioning his connection to the long-running rivalry between Rhodes and Orton. Others have pointed to his recent appearance on WWE SmackDown, which some felt focused more on promoting ticket sales than building the Undisputed WWE Championship match.

Speaking on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, Rhodes made it clear he is distancing himself from McAfee’s involvement.

“I’m just going to do the Mariah Carey answer moving forward on Pat McAfee. I don’t know him,” Rhodes said. “… Randy Orton, who I’m wrestling at WrestleMania, we have like almost two decades of history between each other. He was my mentor. I had [John] Cena, who I drove around. I had Randy, very different opinions, but also really helped shape me. We were on screen together as part of his group, Legacy. He had my dad’s last match, my first match in the company is Randy. There was a lot of rich story material, and then we inserted Pat McAfee. We are literally in that part right there.”

Rhodes continued by comparing McAfee’s placement in the storyline to an awkward addition.

“You know [the meme of] the troop is all outside and there’s that clown, right? I’m not saying he’s the clown in that regards. It’s just an interesting fit,” Rhodes said. “And we’re going to see where it goes. You can’t have that much success and be ground up like he is without being a serious person and having been to the Thunderdome. What I would say is right now, what I’ve seen is everyone around Pat McAfee, his orbit, probably someone needs to say no every now and then. We were talking about Bob Holly earlier. You need that one guy in the room to be like, ‘I don’t know, man. Jumping into the WrestleMania main event?’”

Rhodes also commented on McAfee’s promo and presentation, suggesting it came across as an imitation rather than something original.

“While I was getting my ass kicked in the ring the other night, looking up and he’s wearing shades. He put the shades on to go out there. It’s a different era of wrestling. It was like watching a guy at a bar do a Stone Cold impression,” Rhodes said. “I’m just gonna stick with the I don’t know him [mentality], but getting my ass kicked, I heard him talk about the Attitude Era and I’m thinking oh man, I don’t think he knows. [It was] almost 30 years ago. Love it and it was the most prolific era in the business until the last four years. So if you’re part of the last four years, you kind of feel like why are we talking about this? We’re playing in this game. Why are we talking about this?”

The situation continues to add another layer to the build toward WrestleMania 42, where Rhodes will defend the Undisputed WWE Championship against Orton.

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