Former WWE Superstar Edge appeared on Right After Wrestling with Arda
Ocal and Jimmy Korderas. Highlights from the interview are as follows:
If
he didn’t receive the news, how long he felt he would have competed
before he retired: “I pretty much assumed that WrestleMania in Miami (WM
28) would be my last because my contract runs out around then. I just
thought I would get to there and have my final match there and then
retire. The best laid plans never work out the way they should. And they
didn’t and that’s okay. I knew it was coming to an end but I didn’t
know exactly when that end would be. All this did was speed up the
process by exactly 1 year. I already knew I was ready to retire. My body
was telling me it was time. All the pain I was in and mentally, the
grind, was just getting me down.”
The unique way Tony Chimel
announces him to the ring: “I loved the way Chimel announced me to the
ring. He would announce me and Cena to the ring for like 250 nights and
he would go out of his way for Cena and then simply announce ‘and here’s
the Rated R Superstar Edge.’ So I was like come on Chimel, at least
make an effort for me as well. So he started to elongate the ‘Super’ in
‘Rated R Superstar’ and it just became a huge joke in the back and
everybody would say it along as he would in the ring. I don’t even think
Kevin Dunn noticed, it just kinda flew under the radar.”
When
does Edge want to enter the WWE Hall of Fame?: “I would love to be
inducted into the WWE HOF but I never put any thought into when. I never
said ‘I wanna be inducted in the next year’. I wouldn’t be offended if
it was in a few years from now. If it was the same year that
WrestleMania returns to Toronto, that would be awesome but I never
really put any thought into when exactly I wanted to get inducted.”
