After AEW’s decision to air backstage footage of CM Punk & Jack Perry’s All In: London altercation on this week’s Dynamite and the reaction to that decision, Adam Copeland’s indirect response to Punk’s bombshell interview with Ariel Helwani on the earlier Wednesday’s episode will most likely solely be a footnote within the wrestling historical past books.

But it surely generated lots of dialogue till Tony Khan’s much-maligned move, and Copeland himself was requested about it whereas showing just lately on This is VANCOLOUR to advertise AEW’s upcoming present in Vancouver. Host Mo Amir requested the WWE Corridor of Famer if he watched Punk’s go to to The MMA Hour. Copeland used that as a gap to speak about his motivation for his April 3 promo:

“I didn’t, no… I simply noticed clips. I actually — I’ve acquired higher issues to do. I actually do. I’ve acquired youngsters. [laughs] I don’t actually care what anyone actually has to say.

“Nonetheless, what I’ll say is, from the small clips that I believe in simply scrolling and stuff you see, I noticed that our locker room wanted message. So, final week on our present I went out and kinda spoke to that. It’s a younger locker room, and it’s a younger locker room that, for me, as a result of it’s a special time — now we attempt to assist one another.

“I got here in to locker rooms the place it was everyone for themselves, and it was a bunch of nice whites. I by no means subscribed to that. I at all times subscribed to the Bret Hart faculty of, ‘No, you possibly can assist.’ And you may assist younger individuals, and you may attempt to be a optimistic, and present that you just don’t gotta be a dick. I don’t understand how else to place it. I actually don’t understand how else to place it.

“So for me, I attempt to simply deal with the positives. There are such a lot of negatives on the earth right this moment, they usually’re each there to search out, so why not look to the positives? And to me, our younger locker room wanted to listen to the positives. In order that’s why I went out and did what I did final week. However I don’t have to looking for the opposite stuff. Like I stated, I’ve acquired lots higher issues to do. I’ve acquired youngsters to place to mattress., I’ve acquired the Maple Leafs to look at… [laughs]”

Tell us if that modifications your thoughts about fka Edge’s speech, and you may watch his total dialog with Amir here.