Edge Says he Was in Talks with TNA in 2007/2008

Well that would have changed things. Edge is one of the biggest stars in WWE history with the most title reigns the company has ever seen. He debuted back in 1997 and retired in 2011 with a neck injury, but there was a time in there where things could have made one heck of a switch.

On his “E&C’s Podcast of Awesomeness”, Edge revealed that he was in talks to jump to TNA in 2007-2008. Edge’s contract had come up and he was contacted about making the switch. His body was banged up and the lighter travel schedule would have helped heal him up a bit. Edge says he was interested by the offer but turned it down. Here are his comments with transcription courtesy of Wrestlinginc.com:

“Interesting little tidbit here that I don’t even know how much [Christian] know[s], if [Christian] even know at all, to be honest. I don’t recall talking to [Christian] about it. I don’t know how word gets out on contracts being up and things like that, but there was one point where my contract was coming up and TNA reached out to me, and [Christian was] there, so they reached out to me, and they told me numbers, and schedule, and all of these things.

And for me, at that point, schedule was the thing that I was like, ‘well, that’d be a whole lot easier on the body’ because I was getting pretty beat up. It’s like [Christian] said, I started with WWE in ’97. At that point it was like 2008 or 2009. I can’t even remember. It’s a long time. Now, there [were] breaks because of injuries, but that was my body saying, ‘take a break dude,’ and I never did until something broke.”

In case you’ve forgotten it, here’s Edge’s retirement speech from 2011.

Raw: Edge reveals that he must retire from competition

And on why he stayed with WWE:

“The idea that [Christian was] there, and the opponents. If I went there, there’s [Samoa] Joe, there’s AJ [Styles], there’s a lot of fresh things to do, but for whatever reason, from day one WWE felt like my home. It felt like the place that I’d always wanted to get to. I did those two TV matches in WCW against Kevin Sullivan and Meng and within five minutes of walking into that locker room I was like, ‘I don’t want to be here – I could tell this is not the place for me.’ And the dream was still WWF and getting there.

And then, finally seeing the inner workings and then working into a position where I was one of the main event guys and I was factored in, it just felt like they did put that faith in me, that they did pull the trigger with me for whatever reason they did and I felt like I can’t look that gift horse in the mouth. And sure, there was work involved, but ‘I got to stick it out here and I got to stay here. I just want my career to be here and nowhere else.’ But for [Christian], I do believe that was definitely the right thing to do.”

You can listen to the whole podcast here:

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ecs-pod-of-awesomeness/e/51090636?autoplay=true

Opinion: I could actually imagine this happening and that’s what makes it more interesting. TNA was still a fairly hot brand at this point with some big names and Edge would have been a heck of a big name. Putting him in there with Christian would have gotten a lot of big publicity for the company. It’s hard to say where things would go from there but it certainly would have made a splash.

Do you think Edge should have gone to TNA? Who would you have liked to see him face there? Let us know in the comments below.