“I can go see them and actually smack hands with them and that kind of thing? But just the feeling that it gave me as a release and as a place where I didn't have to worry about things as a kid and I didn't have to think about, you know, the stuff that goes on in life. We lost my uncle when I was very young and I was very close to him and I feel like that was a big hole that wrestling helped try and fill, it doesn't fill it, but you know what I mean.”

Adam Copeland · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-21

Adam Copeland explained how attending wrestling events provided an emotional release after the loss of his uncle.