Edge Vs. Randy Orton Almost Had Drones At WrestleMania 36

Divisive match almost benefitted from a huge production trick.

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Edge and Randy Orton's Last Man Standing match at WrestleMania 36 almost benefitted from footage captured by drones, 'The Rated R Superstar' himself has confirmed.

Here's what Edge had to say during his recent appearance on Corey Graves' After the Bell podcast:-

“It had to be a fight and initially, I had ideas of drones and going on rooftops. And again, we’re filming during you know, sunlight so that’s not going to work. Okay, cool let’s shift focus here. How do we do this? No, right. It’s a fight. Let’s just go fight and that’s what we did, and for that, I’m very proud. I’m also very proud of the fact that after nine years off. I could go for 40 minutes.”

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Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa worked a similar bout on this week's episode of NXT, complete with drone footage. Perhaps Edge had an influence on this.

Edge also said the following on the Orton bout's all-round feel:-

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"To me, It wasn’t a last man standing match. It was a last man standing fight. This story was dirty. It was ugly. It was personal. It feels like it should take place in the bowels of a boiler room or something. Like it shouldn’t be pretty. It shouldn’t be fancy. It should be two guys that are just beating the piss out of each other."

Interesting stuff. Let's see if he shows up at WWE's next set of tapings.

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