Copeland and Cage reunite as new tag team for AEW All Out vs FTR

Adam Copeland and Christian Cage will team together Saturday at AEW All Out in Toronto, opening the pay-per-view in a tag match against FTR that Copeland described as a rare generational clash and a new chapter for the longtime partners. The match at Scotiabank Arena marks the first time the two have been booked as a traditional two-on-two tag team on a pay-per-view in Canada, and comes after a year of heated encounters between the pair in All Elite Wrestling.

Copeland told The Score that the reunion is intentionally not a nostalgia act. Rather than replaying past highlights, he said, the duo are presenting evolved characters that create a new dynamic. "That is what I think is making it different," he said. "We are not just coming back and running the greatest hits. We are doing two different characters now and maintaining that going into this thing, which makes for this unlikely Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets. Can they get along? That is a really fun dynamic."

He credited Cage's recent heel work as essential to the pairing, saying maintaining that edge made the team feel fresh. "Christian found his lane, his pocket. To lose that to do this team, that would have sucked,"...