The True Story Of How WWE Nearly F*cked Up Edge
And you thought 'Ice Dagger' Steve Austin was bad...
Edge's career is legendary.
After developing a riot of midcard act that catalysed a tag team renaissance in WWE, he eventually evolved into an even more entertaining main event mainstay whose promos, angles and counter-driven matches highlighted the top of a card that recovered the rancid post-Attitude Era quite brilliantly.
WWE peaked in the year 2000.
It never got better than that, but, when Edge was the focal point, tearing Ric Flair's living the gimmick bit to shreds and working the most underrated Undertaker match ever, it was easy to disregard the bland dreck that was a John Laurinaitis-developed undercard.
"Uneven" is the best word to describe his return. He's spent far too long, about half the time, in feuds he could have worked in 2010 - which surely betrays the point. Idiotic home invasion angle aside, the Seth Rollins programme was strong, proving that there's still some magic left in the in-house WWE style. At WrestleMania 37, Edge was massively over and crafted one of the very best Triple Threat matches ever. The hysterically intense promos are a bit laughable, but Edge himself appears to have grasped this by pitching a lighter feud with The Miz as 2021 transitioned into 2022.
Ultimately, Edge is worthy of the Hall of Fame. Not the WWE Hall of Fame: a real one.
It very nearly didn't unfold in the way that it has.
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