Edge Talks Christian’s Status, Returning to WWE, Attitude Era

WWE Hall of Famer Edge was recently interviewed by Alternative Nation to discuss his love for music, his acting career and what he has done in professional wrestling. Below are some of the highlights.

Edge spoke on his buddy Christian’s career status, as Christian has been said to be nearing the end of his in-ring days:

“Well he’s my best friend, so I know what’s going on with him more than anybody else. But he’s at that kind of point where you sit back and look and go, okay I’m definitely closer to the end of my career than the beginning. After awhile your body just starts telling you, this is a difficult job to do. When you’re in your 20’s and you think you’re indestructible, you can bounce back, but it gets harder when you start climbing into your 40’s.”

On possibly returning to WWE in a full-time role, whether as an on-screen authority figure or commentator:

“Probably not. I kind of closed that chapter when it got closed on me due to injury. Here’s the thing I’ve always said, is if I can’t get in the ring, I don’t want to be close to the ring and not get in, because that’s the fun part. For me, the performance was always the fun aspect of it. Sitting back and watching and talking about it, I just don’t know how fun that would be for me. It’s great for some people, I just don’t know if that’s for me. I mean who knows, but at this point in my life I don’t foresee it.

I don’t foresee going back on the road, and having to maintain leaving even once a week, especially with a brand new daughter. It’s like, no, I like where I am right now, shooting a TV series, sleeping in the same bed every night, and my entire family is here, I don’t have to get up and go to the airport and leave them. I did that for 20 years, sometimes people say my career got cut short, but it was 20 years long. Wrestling years are like dog years, so it was a long career, and a long time maintaining that schedule and that kind of pace, so it’s been nice not to. Even though I wouldn’t be doing the physical aspect, that’s the part that was fun, and made all the other crap like planes and rental cars enjoyable. If that’s not there, why would I want to do that?”

He also talked about the change in stature of wrestling, whereas it was very violent when he was in the game compared to now:

“I do think what’s been good, people are always talking about the Attitude Era, and all of this and all of that, but if you watch back, sometimes the matches weren’t that great because we had 2 minutes. It’s not possible to have a good wrestling match in 2 minutes, you can’t tell a story, you can tell a haiku. Since the PG era, I know when I was in matches, I had half an hour sometimes, 20 minutes, there I can tell a story. To me that’s the meat and potatoes of the whole thing, it all boils down to the wrestling at the end of the day. The Attitude Era was a lot about the hijinks backstage, and the matches kind of got forgotten about. It’s looked at with rose colored glasses because the ratings were good, and it was working for obvious reasons, but to me those obvious reasons were characters like Stone Cold, who would then get in and have a long match at a PPV. Characters like The Rock who would be entertaining, but still at the end of the day, they could go. I think now, you need a little bit of both.”

The rest of the lengthy interview can be found here.

Editor’s Note

Really great interview with Edge here that is worth the entire read. Dude has his head on his shoulders these days.

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