Adam Copeland is on his journey to make a return to in-ring action after suffering a significant injury.
While working a Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match at the AEW Double Or Nothing pay-per-view event in Las Vegas, Nevada, Copeland retained his AEW TNT Title. However, he was injured in the process.
The violent match saw them use chairs, tables, barbed wire, and other weapons. Copeland was injured when he did an elbow drop off the top of the cage and landed badly on his legs when crashing down onto Black, who was on a table. Copeland had fractured his tibia and needed surgery, which lasted 12 hours.
While speaking to Steven Muelhausen of Sports Illustrated, Copeland gave an injury update.
Copeland said, “It feels really good. I got the surgery. I guess it was June 1, by the time I finally got the surgery done. So I guess yesterday was three months. I’ve never broken my leg before, so I didn’t know what that entails or what that entailed. With my Achilles, it was a process. This is not that which is good, because the Achilles, I was working eight hours a day on that thing. It became a full-time job and I got back in six months. But it was a lot of grinding of teeth. This isn’t that more than anything. It’s trying to get the power back and flexibility from bringing your toes to your knee. That’s the last area that doesn’t want to go yet because the plate goes down to the ankle because it was a lower fracture. It was a lower tibia fracture, so the plate butts up against that ankle bone. I think that’ll be what I need to get through in order to be able to get all of that power back. I don’t know what a timeframe is. I don’t know any of that. I know that now I can walk, get in the ring, and move around a little bit, but I still feel the deficiency. So, I know I still have some work to do to return to where I need to be.”
We wish Copeland a speedy recovery.
