Earlier as we speak (Might 28), Adam Copeland instructed the world that he fractured his tibia en path to beating Malakai Black of their Barbed Wire Metal Cage match at Double or Nothing this previous Sunday night time.
That set off the same old spherical of effectively needs for Cope, and questions on whether or not AEW provides its performers an excessive amount of leeway on the subject of their very own artistic and match structure.
It additionally created a gap for Malakai and the remainder of the Home of Black to show their defeat right into a victory. Copeland opened the door for it whereas asserting his damage, and Brody King is working with it.
First, he modified essentially the most well-known occasion of “gloating about breaking an opponent’s leg” in wrestling historical past (Greg Valentine’s customized merch celebrating the damaged leg Wahoo McDaniel suffered throughout their 1977 Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight championship feud for Jim Crockett Promotions):
It’s very DIY*, however we expect The Hammer would approve. It’s not like his was professionally designed.
King additionally spelled out what is going to probably be (or needs to be) the Home’s response to Copeland’s damage on AEW tv, particularly contemplating how the storyline main into final weekend was how they had been making an attempt to carry out the WWE Corridor of Famer’s darkish aspect:
There’s no means shedding somebody like Copeland for what is going to in all probability not less than be many of the remainder of this yr is usually a good factor. But when it provides Home of Black some momentum… possibly they do all the time win?
* “Do it your self”, not the WWE tag crew that makes use of that as their identify.
