Worse than that, he, Bruce Prichard, and DeMarco describe backstage politics that had people gunning to sabotage Copeland’s debut in some way in order to protect their own spot and interest. It’s 1998 and Edge arrives, though Copeland recalls a lot of directionless character development after his debut. The next few refrains of the episode focus on Copeland’s journey through the Canadian independent wrestling scene - meeting Carl DeMarco, who was President of WWF Canada and Hart’s manager venturing out into the hinterlands for Tony Condello’s International Wrestling Alliance’s infamous tours through northern Canada and an ill-conceived tour through Tennessee where the work was not what had been promised.Īfter working some more with Hart, and while working in Manitoba for Condello, DeMarco calls Copeland to let him know he has a contract offer with the WWF waiting for him from.
Adam, though, describes Hart meeting him backstage and encouraging him to keep at it, though he didn’t have any better advice than that. Hart essentially brushes him off, appearing in the present to reflect on that time and questioning what advice he really might have been able to give Copeland in that era.
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Not long afterwards, Copeland is in the audience for a taping of The Dini Petty Show, featuring then-WWF Champion Bret Hart.Ĭopeland gets a question in about how to get into wrestling as a career. This show, for him, confirms that he’s on the right track. Copeland claims to have never read the letter since he sent it in, and though he dreads what he may have written he knows that it worked.Ĭopeland shows footage of a 1993 Canada Day show in Monarch Park in Toronto, ran by Siki and Hutchison as a way to get their students in front of a crowd. With wrestling proving massively popular in Toronto, culminating in the hosting of WrestleMania VI, the Toronto Sun newspaper started running a weekly wrestling column by Norm DeCosta, and Copeland recalls seeing a tidbit about an essay writing contest to win a training session with Sweet Daddy Siki and Ron Hutchison.
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He filled that void with wrestling, attending his first event in 1985 at Maple Leaf Gardens, watching, among others, Hulk Hogan in full Hulkamania-mode.įast-forward a few years to high school where Copeland and Reso meet, with Jay the new kid in town that Adam befriended only to discover a shared fixation with wrestling, and their plans to become tag team champions together were born.
One of his uncles, Gary, with whom Copeland had the closest relationship of all his family, lost his life in a car accident at 17, sending the family spinning and young Adam especially. Jay Reso (who you just knew would be a big part of this despite his current ties to AEW), talks about how Copeland must have wondered why his father wasn’t a part of his life, but that he had lots of family members stand in for that missing part. Copeland remembers lean times as a kid, recognizing later as an adult how hard his mom worked to keep them afloat. Emitting a classic “dad sigh” as he takes a seat in a director’s chair, Copeland walks us back right away to his youth in Orangeville, Ontario.ĭescribed by his cousin Matt as a “safe place” but hardly a fun place, Orangeville was home to Adam and his mom Judy, who raised him as a single mother. In what is surely the most direct example of duplicate storytelling, tonight’s episode of Biography on A&E is really a re-packaged version of the quite good episode of WWE 24 that focused on Edge and his return to the ring after a forced retirement.įoregoing pyro and entrance music, Adam Copeland, not Edge, enters an empty stage in the opening shot of tonight’s episode of Biography.
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