20 Incredible WWE Ruthless Aggression Era Moments Nobody Ever Talks About
15. Edge's Ric Flair Impersonation Skit
This one barely gets remembered for two reasons:
1) The D-Generation X/Nation of Domination and New World Order/Four Horsemen sketches were far more infamous and
2) It's difficult to recall a time in which Edge had patter.
He plays a super-intense and somewhat corny, vengeful badass these days, to mixed results. He still has the odd one-liner in him, but he's mostly known for his forehead vein now. Back in 2005, as the Rated-R Superstar, he mocked Ric Flair's very real arrest for grabbing somebody by the throat in a road rage incident. While charges against Flair were eventually dropped when the witness to the assault failed to appear in court, that didn't stop Edge from sending Flair up.
The use of juxtaposition was brilliant: WWE could not have found a more bleak stretch of grey road, nor filmed on a more overcast day, as "Flair" drove around in full gimmick. WWE, inadvertently perhaps, cast Flair as a total loser whose tall tales of the glamorous travelling life were rather pathetic.
Edge played it a bit like Shawn Michaels doing Hulk Hogan: every other word out of his mouth was "Wooo!". In a great, daft touch, instead of choking the "victim", "Flair" chopped him.
- MS