By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
Inside the Ropes interview with guest Adam Copeland
Interview conducted by Kenny McIntosh
Available at ITRwrestling.com
Copeland on fans responding negatively to the spiked board spot with Jon Moxley: “I don’t really care about the reaction, besides the live reaction. That to me is the reaction that matters, and they were into it live. Hey, I get it, I do. Because I understand that it can be diminishing returns and all of those things. You also have to know your audience, and you also have to understand that times have changed, for good, bad, however you want to look at it.”
On how things have changed: “I like to think I’ve always been a proponent of understanding that things do change; it’s going to be more athletic now, it’s going to be more violent now, and things just naturally tend to get ‘more’ as time goes on. I mean, you look at the internet. I remember dial-up, and now there’s AI. Things change, that’s just the nature of life. That’s the nature of the world. So I don’t really factor in how people react after the fact. I just know they’re into it live, that’s my job, and that’s how I gauge things.”
Glad to see Cope is coping with the “non live” fans reaction.
The live reaction was in front of 12 people.
It was 11.
The fact that he’s defending a spot that dangerous is telling. He, of all people, should know how fragile the human body can be if one little thing goes wrong. He literally said it was to get the crowd to pop.