Edge is one of the most decorated athletes in the history of WWE, but unfortunately for him he was forced to retire in 2011.
The WWE Hall of Famer recently spoke to Sports Illustrated, and he revealed that he had an angle in mind for his retirement, and he wanted his friend Christian to retire him.
“Fact. I had my next year mapped out in my brain and had been talking to everyone about it. I assumed I had at least a year left. That’s what I had on my contract, and I really, really wanted to see it through and work up until the last day of my contract. That’s just the way I was raised and the way I’m wired. I was champion and I wanted to pass this on to whomever it was eventually, so it really hit home when I was told, ‘We’re not going to allow you to compete anymore.’ We did have a tentative plan to go forward once [Alberto] Del Rio and I were through our program. Christian would have cost me the title to Del Rio, and then we would have moved on and done our thing – and I thought he would retire me at WrestleMania. That’s how I wanted to go out. I wanted to do the favor, drop the title, and then have Christian be the cause – then spend the final few months of my career wrestling my lifelong best friend, and really have him go off in a great heel direction once I retired.”
Edge and Christian made a name for themselves in WWE wrestling The Hardy Boyz and the Dudley Boyz in their now infamous TLC matches. When asked about Jeff Hardy’s career, Edge noted that it’s amazing that Jeff is able to move after all the torture he put his body through.
“Fact, that is an absolute fact. The fact that he is still able to move, at this point, is amazing. He’s made such a plaster scene. Even just his energy, he’s very loose. He’s an easy-going guy, and maybe that translated to his body being able to absorb all that punishment through the years. I don’t know, but he’s still going, and that’s a fact.”
