Edge is a WWE Hall of Famer, and he had an incredible career inside the squared circle. But fans were heartbroken when he announced his retirement and 2011, and vacated the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Edge’s career has been over for a few years now, but he seems to be ok with that because he did just about everything there is to do in the wrestling business.
One thing Edge didn’t do was wrestle for TNA, although he did reveal during a recent episode of E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness that TNA reached out to him when his WWE contract was ending around 2008 or 2009.
“Interesting little tidbit here that I don’t even know how much [Christian] know[s], if [Christian] even know at all, to be honest. I don’t recall talking to [Christian] about it. I don’t know how word gets out on contracts being up and things like that, but there was one point where my contract was coming up and TNA reached out to me, and [Christian was] there, so they reached out to me, and they told me numbers, and schedule, and all of these things,” Edge revealed via WrestlingInc. “And for me, at that point, schedule was the thing that I was like, ‘well, that’d be a whole lot easier on the body’ because I was getting pretty beat up. It’s like [Christian] said, I started with WWE in ’97. At that point it was like 2008 or 2009. I can’t even remember. It’s a long time. Now, there [were] breaks because of injuries, but that was my body saying, ‘take a break dude,’ and I never did until something broke.”
The Rated R Superstar noted that the lighter schedule and the idea of wrestling stars such as AJ Styles and Samoa Joe was enticing, but walking away from WWE just didn’t seem like the right move.
“The idea that [Christian was] there, and the opponents. If I went there, there’s [Samoa] Joe, there’s AJ [Styles], there’s a lot of fresh things to do, but for whatever reason, from day one WWE felt like my home. It felt like the place that I’d always wanted to get to. I did those two TV matches in WCW against Kevin Sullivan and Meng and within five minutes of walking into that locker room I was like, ‘I don’t want to be here – I could tell this is not the place for me.’ And the dream was still WWF and getting there.
“And then, finally seeing the inner workings and then working into a position where I was one of the main event guys and I was factored in, it just felt like they did put that faith in me, that they did pull the trigger with me for whatever reason they did and I felt like I can’t look that gift horse in the mouth. And sure, there was work involved, but ‘I got to stick it out here and I got to stay here. I just want my career to be here and nowhere else.’ But for [Christian], I do believe that was definitely the right thing to do.”
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