Adam Copeland: ‘I don’t know what a timeframe is’ for return from injury

Adam Copeland does not have a timeframe for his return to the ring after suffering a broken leg in a match in May.

In a new interview with Sports Illustrated, Copeland noted that he had just passed the three month mark since undergoing surgery to repair a broken tibia incurred when he jumped off the top of the cage in a barbed wire steel cage match against Malakai Black at AEW Double or Nothing in May:

“It feels really good. I got the surgery. I guess it was June 1, by the time I finally got the surgery done. So I guess yesterday was three months. I’ve never broken my leg before, so I didn’t know what that entails or what that entailed. With my Achilles, it was a process. This is not that which is good, because the Achilles, I was working eight hours a day on that thing. It became a full-time job and I got back in six months. But it was a lot of grinding of teeth. This isn’t that more than anything.”

Copeland said that he has a plate inserted in his leg:

“It’s trying to get the power back and flexibility from bringing your toes to your knee. That’s the last area that doesn’t want to go yet because the plate goes down to the ankle because it was a lower fracture. It was a lower tibia fracture, so the plate butts up against that ankle bone. I think that’ll be what I need to get through in order to be able to get all of that power back. I don’t know what a timeframe is. I don’t know any of that. I know that now I can walk, get in the ring, and move around a little bit, but I still feel the deficiency. So, I know I still have some work to do to return to where I need to be.”