Adam Copeland is clearly having a good time since signing with AEW. A few months back, Copeland shared what he thought were the biggest differences between working for AEW and his former employers at WWE.
“I think the biggest difference, I’d have to say I noticed between the two companies is that with WWE now, it’s a publicly traded company, there’s the sponsors, there’s a lot of different things to answer to, and with AEW, there’s just a lot of freedom,” he said. “So in that regard, especially in this final act of my career, that’s a super fun place to navigate from. That’s a great place to create from because, oh right, let’s just throw it at the wall and see if it sticks. If it doesn’t, okay, well, it didn’t, and then let’s try this and let’s try that.”
Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite aired from a sold-out Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto, and Copeland has long used the Alter Bridge classic “Metalingus” as his entrance theme. After Copeland made his way to the ring for a match against his longtime rival and ex-tag team partner Christian Cage, the wrestler formerly known as Edge was serenaded by the Toronto crowd with an acapella version of the song much in the same way they often sing the FOZZY classic “Judas” for Chris Jericho’s entrance.
Video of Copeland’s entrance can be viewed below.
Copeland was previously asked about AEW getting the rights to the song following his company debut at Wrestledream.
“Alter Bridge are my friends,” Copeland said. “Mark Tremonti, who wrote the song, is a very good friend. That song is with me wherever I go. That was very important to me. I’ve always been very musically motivated and I think it sets the tone for a character and it also sets the tone for Adam to get in that place.”
“That music, from the first time I heard it in Mark’s house, after I dropped a beer in his foyer, after just meeting him, he played that for me with his scratch lyrics on it and I was out with a neck injury. I said, ‘Can I have that song?’ ‘Absolutely, dude.’ We had just met. 20 years later, here we are, I called Mark and I said, ‘what do you think?’ ‘Absolutely. That answer is not going to change.’ That was really pivotal and important to me. It would have felt weird coming out to something else.”
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