10 Things We Learned From WWE 24: Edge

7. Tommaso Ciampa’s Friendly Realisation

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One of the best aspects of this 24 film is how WWE frame Edge's helpful personality and affinity for encouraging others around him. A chance visit to the Performance Center in 2017 caused him to fall back in love with wrestling all over again. After that, Edge gave his number to some of the guys and told them to text him anytime.

Tommaso Ciampa did.

He'd had some neck pain of his own, and would eventually require serious surgery. One night, he texted Edge back and forth for around two hours about the subject, then turned to his wife on the couch and said, "I think I'm friends with Edge". There's something sweet about his words that should thaw the ice in any 'Rated-R Superstar' skeptics heart.

Edge wanted to put Ciampa's mind at ease throughout surgery and aid the NXT roster'ss journey through an often-ruthless WWE system. That need to nurture planted more seeds of passion in his brain.

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