{"id":207659,"date":"2025-11-20T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=207659"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:33:46","slug":"tony-khan-says-wwe-never-reached-out-about-adam-copeland-being-part-of-cenas-retirement-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/11\/20\/tony-khan-says-wwe-never-reached-out-about-adam-copeland-being-part-of-cenas-retirement-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Khan says WWE never reached out about Adam Copeland being part of Cena&#8217;s retirement tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1268383853\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>AEW booker and COO Tony Khan appeared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QZE44XO7DHU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a> on Tuesday and said WWE never reached out to him about Adam Copeland appearing on John Cena&#8217;s retirement tour.<\/p>\n<p>Cena has faced several of his rivals from the past during his retirement tour in WWE and Copeland (Edge in WWE) is considered one of Cena&#8217;s biggest career rivals. Helwani asked Khan about the rumors of Copeland being part of Cena&#8217;s retirement tour in WWE and potentially being his final opponent and Khan denied that there was any truth to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever say never in wrestling, because I would imagine they could always extend John Cena\u2019s date past the end of the year,&#8221; said Khan. &#8220;But no, Adam\u2019s going to be here with us through the year.\u00a0Adam Copeland is a huge part of AEW and I have so much respect for him. I really, really like Adam a lot and I\u2019m glad to have him here. Even though he\u2019s away filming, he\u2019s still with us and will continue to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>ARTICLE CONTINUED BELOW&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Check out the latest episode of &#8220;Wrestling Night in America,&#8221; part of the PWTorch Dailycast line-up: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/wrestling-night-in-america-aew-full-gear-post-show-leclair-parks-talk-hangman-vs-joe-in-cage-bucks-kenny-decision-some-upsets-more--68702448\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to stream (or search \u201cpwtorch\u201d on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other iOS or Android app to subscribe free)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wrestling Night in America - AEW Full Gear post-show: LeClair &amp; Parks talk Hangman vs. Joe in cage, Bucks-Kenny decision, some upsets, more\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=68702448&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AEW Full Gear Post-Show w\/ Brandon LeClair &amp; Greg Parks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z12xQMQ6hRo?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-581633528\"><div id=\"pwtor-1354497769\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>AEW booker and COO Tony Khan appeared on the The Ariel Helwani Show on Tuesday and said WWE never reached out to him about Adam Copeland appearing on John Cena&#8217;s retirement tour. Cena has faced <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/11\/20\/tony-khan-says-wwe-never-reached-out-about-adam-copeland-being-part-of-cenas-retirement-tour\/\" title=\"Tony Khan says WWE never reached out about Adam Copeland being part of Cena&#8217;s retirement tour\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6163,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlightarticles","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2025\/09\/IMG_1221.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207805,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207659\/revisions\/207805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}