Adam Copeland and John Cena wrestle for various firms, however their bond exceeds promotional boundaries. Copeland, previously Edge, paid tribute to Cena at AEW All Out, hours earlier than Cena’s match with Brock Lesnar at WWE Wrestlepalooza.

Copeland and Cena are key attracts for AEW and WWE, respectively. On Saturday, Copeland and Christian Cage opened All Out in Toronto, hours earlier than Cena’s Wrestlepalooza opener. Throughout Copeland and Cage’s match in opposition to FTR, Copeland paid homage to Cena by evoking the WWE star’s “5 strikes of doom.” Copeland hit Money Wheeler with a side-release powerbomb, a five-knuckle shuffle and an Angle Adjustment. 

Copeland’s nod to Cena is a number of weeks within the making. Earlier this month, Cena wrestled Sami Zayn on WWE SmackDown. Cena attacked with a number of signature strikes belonging to his former rivals, together with Copeland’s spear. It is Cena’s manner of honoring rivals he will not get to face on his retirement tour.

“Tremendous enjoyable,” Copeland informed The Rating this week about Cena’s acknowledgment. “I believe for John and I, we’re two guys who met one another on the proper time. You recognize, he wanted a unhealthy man and I wanted man, and it simply clicked. You by no means know when one thing will click on…

“You had two guys who have been very prepared to do what we needed to do to get us each over. And John was already effectively on his manner. However I really feel like our angle is what actually put the stamp on him being the prime man, and it put the stamp on me being a main-event man. So, you know, I will at all times look again at that one fondly and at what we have been in a position to do and the enjoyable we had.”

Copeland and Cena have been chief WWE rivals within the mid-2000s. Copeland famously cashed in his Cash within the Financial institution briefcase on Cena on the 2006 New 12 months’s Revolution occasion, pinning him to win the WWE championship.