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Adam Copeland suffered broken tibia at AEW Double or Nothing

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May 28, 2024

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Adam Copeland suffered broken tibia at AEW Double or Nothing

Adam Copeland is injured.

The 50-year-old jumped off the top of a steel cage and landed feet first during his match with Malakai Black at AEW Double or Nothing on Sunday. He posted a video to social media on Tuesday revealing he suffered a broken tibia that will require surgery.

“I’ve been feeling really good lately, been having so much fun in the ring and I got cocky, is I guess what it really comes down,” Copeland says in the video.

“My brain forgets what my body always seems to remember, a little late, is that I’m 50 and I need to make better choices,” he continued. “So, my body pulled the emergency break on me the other night and I ended up fracturing my tibia, which is going to require surgery, don’t know the time frame on that yet.”

Copeland continued to say he hopes to find out more next week regarding how long he’ll be out of action.

Copeland’s decision to jump off the cage on Sunday was addressed during the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio by our own Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez.

“He decided to jump off and land on his feet and that was a long way down, and he landed on his feet and it looked like he paid for it. It’s just one of those things, nobody should be jumping off a cage and landing on their feet, I don’t care how old you are.”

Meltzer also brought up that it was a particularly high cage they were using at Double or Nothing and a lower cage might not have been as bad.

“It was like he got up there and when he came down it was almost like, ‘I’m not sure what I’m going to do’ and that was, I think, the kiss of death,” Meltzer said. “Instead of splashing he decided that he would do this elbow but he didn’t want to do the full elbow and that’s what the problem was. If he had done the full elbow, he could have hurt his hip still, though.”