Want to hear a loud pop from a crowd? Have a major star return unannounced a half-year before he was expected back in the ring. When Edge tore his Achilles tendon in July 2009, he was probably going to be on the shelf for a year. WrestleMania XXVI had to be out of the question. Instead, Edge unexpectedly entered the 2010 Royal Rumble at number 29 to a thunderous ovation and went on to win the match. Some say that Edges return was telegraphed by Chris Jericho, his former tag team partner, bad-mouthing Edge more frequently in the lead-up to the Rumble, but it definitely didnt take away from the Rated-R Superstars return. http://youtu.be/_kbosiBZ4u4?t=2m10s Edge would go on to lose his World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania to Jericho, and he would then be forced to retire a year later. But his return at the 2010 Rumble was an incredible moment that helped cap his career.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
