Title Lost: World Heavyweight Championship Lost Title To: CM Punk In 2008, Edge was drafted to Smackdown while still holding the World Heavyweight Championship. He went on Raw to crow about it, but Batista took out his frustration at being screwed over at Night of Champions and left Edge laying in the middle of the ring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXJrDa2qoT4 Cue CM Punk running to ringside with referee and Money in the Bank briefcase in tow. One GTS later, and Edge was on his way to Smackdown without his title. He also never got a rematch since he had been drafted away from his title. Punk moved on to a feud with Batista, while Edge challenged Triple H for the WWE Championship which he would win in November of that year.
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.
