The main card of tonight’s (Nov. 14) AEW’s Full Gear pay-per-view kicked off with Adam Copeland challenging Kazuchika Okada for the International championship.
The Rainmaker’s strategy was to target Copeland’s surgically repaired neck, after doing so paid off in a big way at Blood & Guts. The turning point of the match came when Cope tried to spear the champ, but Okada put the belt in the way when the referee wasn’t looking. Cope collided with the belt, and Okada followed up with an Impaler DDT to the floor
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Copeland was never able to overcome that blow. The cocky Okada had a blast toying with his food at the end of the match, breaking up his own pin fall attempts on Cope multiple times just to humiliate him further. When Okada was finally ready for the match to end, he delivered a Rainmaker clothesline, and that’s all she wrote.
Cope struggled to his feet afterwards, and Okada ran back in to put him down one more time. What a dick.
The AEW commentators did the quiet voice thing wondering if Copeland might need to consider calling it quits before 2027 even gets here. In the next match, Don Callis gloated on commentary about his family ending Copeland’s career earlier than planned.
Where do you think Adam Copeland’s AEW retirement story goes from here? Is a heel turn coming? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.
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