Edge (Best Of CVV Interviews) - John Cena, Royal Rumble Return, Leaving WWE For AEW, Christian Cage, WrestleMania Moments

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Chris Van Vliet

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4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Use the code CVV to save 10% on Pure Plank: https://gopureplank.com/?ref=tibcloux Adam Copeland (@ratedrcope) is a professional wrestler signed with AEW; he is also known for his 25-year career in WWE where he performed under the name "Edge". This interview originally aired on May 9, 2024. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at his home in Asheville, NC to talk about being in the best shape of his life at age 50, why he designed Pure Plank with Christian Cage to help with core fitness, his decision to leave WWE for AEW, how he almost signed with AEW in 2019 instead of returning at the 2020 Royal Rumble, being forced to retire in 2011, how he met his wife Beth Phoenix, spearing Jeff Hardy off the ladder at WrestleMania 17, being on the receiving end of a leg drop off the cage from Matt Hardy at WWE Unforgiven 2005, his funny moments as a tag team with Christian, wanting to retire in a year and a half, being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame and much more!

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0:00.0	Chris Van Bleed!
0:05.0	Yeah!
0:06.0	And bleed!
0:09.0	It's inside with Chris Dan Beat.
0:19.0	As a fellow Canadian, this is an honor.
0:21.7	This is an honor.
0:23.3	A long time coming here.
0:25.0	Yeah.
0:25.6	I mean, I've seen some of your stuff, and I've been seeing it for a while.
0:31.8	Likewise, I've seen some of your stuff.
0:34.6	For a while.
0:36.2	What a career.
0:42.4	Unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, as we kind of were briefly touching on before, it's, I don't, I don't really think about it a whole lot until I sit down
0:49.2	and kind of do an interview and we start going back and then it starts to refresh my memory on just how long
0:57.1	and, you know, all the different things. And even like the, so sometimes I'll forget who I
1:04.3	wrestled, you know, and it's, I did, I saw a clip on Instagram of Gangrel and I wrestling
1:09.6	road warriors in Puerto Rico. And as soon as I saw it, oh Instagram of Gangrel and I wrestling Road Warriors in Puerto Rico.
1:12.6	And as soon as I saw it, oh, yeah.
1:15.2	But I just kind of forgotten.
1:18.2	How do you forget you wrestle the Road Warriors?
1:20.6	You know what I mean?
1:21.1	And it was no commentary on the match or them.
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