Adam Copeland addressed the potential first-time matches AEW held compared to WWE, expressing excitement toward the idea of working alongside Kenny Omega, Kazuchika Okada, Samoa Joe, and "Hangman" Adam Page to name a few.

"All of these people I've never worked with, I've never wrestled, and it was almost everybody, like 98% of the roster. That's insane," he said. "Moxley and I have never touched... Oh man, I'm Jones-in for that one... FTR, the Bucks, like Claudio [Castagnoli] and I have never been in a ring together... Even Bryan [Danielson] and I have only had one singles match. It was like four minutes long, and then we had a triple threat and that's it. We've never had a proper one-on-one, you can keep going down the list. It is just name after name after name after name." 

The WWE Hall of Famer noted that he needs to have challenges and excitement. He pointed to his remarkable return to wrestling after triple fusion surgery on his neck and said those challenges drive him forward. As a Grand Slam Champion, Copeland felt that he had done all he could with WWE, and he got the same vibe from the company. 

"There was only so much to do with WWE and I feel like I'd done it all. I feel like we both felt that way. It was just time... To look at this new company, this exciting company. And I'd watch and I'd be stoked. Like man, it'd be fun to get there. Be awful fun. And then I had friends there and I talked to them who were like, 'You'd have a lot of fun,' and honestly at this stage of life, I'm 50 years old. If it's not fun, I'm not gonna do it."