Copeland and Cage have reigned supreme over the tag team division since then, dispatching The Death Riders and The Dogs in separate matches.The type of run that Copeland and Cage have put together since he joined All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is exactly what he wanted when he came to the company.
Copeland wasn’t looking for a nostalgia act.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICKAdam Copeland and Christian Cage faced off with weapons in hand moments before hugging during an August 2025 AEW show in Cincinnati.(USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)"Just fun and exactly the type of reason I came to AEW is to go after these things that I still wanted to go after but I knew weren't going to be possible unless I made that that move and to get a chance to team with him and totally recreate the team and not have it just be the thing we used to do," he told Fox News Digital.
"It's like we're a team again, but we're an entirely different team and we should be because we've experienced so much and gone through so much throughout our careers that we bring all of that now and to just go and try and rehash the chump stain stuff, I don't know, it almost be a disservice to us.Like we put in enough work in between to create and carve these character paths for ourselves that to just throw that to the wayside so we could do a nostalgia run, that didn't feel right.
And that was the discussions we had going into this is trying to make sure that it didn't just feel like a rehash."And I think we’ve been successful in that.We tried to change things like we never had a finishing move as a team.
Like that's insane.We never had a finishing move.
Our finishing move was a concerto which is illegal.So, what we always did is just cheat and we were heels so it worked.
But this incarnation is different.So, it was before Forbidden Door, I was like, ‘Hey, I was thinking about this pop-up spear thing.’ We hadn't tried it.
We're just like, OK, we'll try it out there in London at the O2 fo...