Adam Copeland shortened his ring name to “Cope” on this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen.
On the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that Copeland decided to make the change, not AEW or Tony Khan.
Meltzer said, “I have no idea why. I think that because his whole career he was Edge, so he just figures that he should be Cope. Whatever, it’s his call, I mean it doesn’t make — it doesn’t make a difference, he’s Adam Copeland. The idea absolutely is to just call him Cope, yes. It’s his call, I don’t think it changes the world or anything. I wouldn’t have done it … you’d have to ask him why, you know what I mean? I said I wouldn’t have done it, but it’s not like anything where I go like ‘oh, stupid idea,’ it’s just something.”
Cope and FTR defeated the Death Riders in a trios match on Wednesday’s show.
