Edge announces retirement

GTR63

Deleted User wrote: »

I especially like the hair vs hair match against Angle.

I loved the Angle rivalry I thought Edge's in ring work peaked then.I remember he & Mysterio having a superb tag match with Angle & Benoit too.

D-FENS

cena wrote: »

Well now. Who are going too have in tlc matches with Christian if wwe had planed getting them too tag together now that edge is now longer wretling.

Aslo look what slivervision have on offer

http://www.silvervision.co.uk/products/Edge-A-Decade-of-Decadence-DVD-3-Discs.html

Think I'll get this. Any good

I have this, some great matches as listed but no documentary teling his story / comments by other wrestlers which i usually enjoy, the matches are joined together by an in character heel Edge describing them.
There's also only about 5 minutes of the E & C comedy stuff, would have liked more. Well worth getting if you're an Edge fan though.

JP Liz V1

Source

Cena's Raw tribute to Edge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCMVVHyGzQ

Beware SD Spoiler!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp_WRWReKb8

starviewadams

Just watched the ending of SD! there and it was great to see the whole SD! roster and the crowd show their respect for Edge,nice to see his mom Judy,who raised him single handedly,there too.One of my favourite wrestlers of all time and he will be sorely missed,I'll have to dig out his book and have another read of it too.

A good Edge moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYZ7IYhhscQ

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Beware SD Spoiler!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp_WRWReKb8

Triple H is a prick.

starviewadams

Early Edge WWF 'Desire' vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyREt8_9wvQ

Nuri Sahin

5.20 onwards -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elbH8hr4XYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuAvuxBi8Po

___

Ending of Smackdown + Post show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjMND0KROs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB10lTGlhIA

JP Liz V1

Would have loved to see Angle, Jericho and Lita show up for SD

Dozen Wicked Words

My interest in the WWE was really only for the years in and around when Edge and Christian were the tag team, used to absolutely love the ridiculousness of it all, so entertaining and incredible TLC matches with the Dudleys etc. Only really watch every now and again now. Sad to see Edge retire, but 100% the right choice. Hopefully Christian will get a bit of a go in the WWE now.

The main reason for this post really was just how struck I was by how the WWE handled Edges retirement, in a business SO often accused of being fake, made up blah blah blah, there was nothing false about that emotion and a credit to most of the wrestlers there.

Lord TSC

Deleted User wrote: »

Triple H is a *****.

Have a feeling I'll agree with you for the reasons why but I'll ask anyway; why do you say that?

JP Liz V1

^ Did HHH feud with Edge?

I think he probably showed up to wish Edge well and say goodbye, as he didnt on Raw but some may feel he was stealing Edge's thunder I guess

Would have preferred Jericho, Angle or even Taker to have show up but at least Christian was there :cool:

Penn

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

^ Did HHH feud with Edge?

A little bit, when HHH was in Smackdown. He was the one who revealed to Vickie Guerrero about Edge cheating on her with Alicia Fox before their wedding. That's all I remember from that fued

starviewadams

Wouldn't call that stealing Edge's thunder in fairness,he just came out to pay his repects to Edge,probably because he was the most senior guy at the SD! tapings.

Bounty Hunter

starviewadams wrote: »

Wouldn't call that stealing Edge's thunder in fairness,he just came out to pay his repects to Edge,probably because he was the most senior guy at the SD! tapings.

I saw it kinda akin to if Vince came down. HHH isnt on the smackdown roster, he was there (maybe running the backstage?) representing the company in a lot of ways as they paid tribute to Edge. Yeah it kinda elivated him above the others and gave trips an unnececary spotlight but who knows what he said to him when he came out, "youve got a job for life as long as im here buddy" for example would be an interuption Edge would be happy to endure imo but who knows

Penn

starviewadams wrote: »

Wouldn't call that stealing Edge's thunder in fairness,he just came out to pay his repects to Edge,probably because he was the most senior guy at the SD! tapings.

One of the few guys there longer than Edge too.

CMpunked

As we know HHH will be running the show some day, he would be a fool not to get edge a job in creative, (starting off a creative team of ex-wrestlers such as himself and edge) he could be very very good.

JP Liz V1

Many more stars, including TNA talents, paid tribute to Edge via their Twitter accounts:

John Cena - "CeNation. I am very proud of edge for all that he has accomplished. He is certain to be in the hall of fame. Im proud to have had so many Great moments with him. He is a true wrestling purist and one of the smartest people I've had the pleasure of wrestling with. For your last match to be a championship win at WrestleMania ...is a damn good finish to one helluva career."

The Rock - "Edge - you are my brother, an inspiration and define the word "superstar". THANK YOU Adam.. for everything."

Randy Orton - "Will miss Edge not only in ring, but in the lockeroom even more. He was one
of the few who I could call a friend. I learned alot from him."

Goldust - "Much rather edge be happy and safe without hurting further"

Beth Phoenix - "Seeing edge say goodbye was surreal. He is irreplaceable."

Sinn Bodhi - "Yes it's real about Adam... No comment... Except, love you Fatty!"

Gangrel - "Posse up edge! One love. There would be no brood without @christian4peeps and edge was very sad to hear the news but happy to see him start a new life!"

Mick Foley - "A sad day for wrestling, but what an amazing career for Edge. I was so fortunate to have been his opponent, his partner, his friend.

Rikishi - "EDGE You've done well. Thank you for your friendship my Canadian UCE !!! Enjoy full-time with family NOW "

Sean Waltman - "Beside's I love the guy & I hope he enjoys his retirement, for how ever long it may be. He deserves everything he achieved"

Matt Hardy - "Heard Adam is retiring because of physical issues that won't allow him to safely continue wrestling. He'll be missed, we've certainly had our fair share of issues.. Both good and bad. But I tip my hat to Edge who is one of the greatest I've ever been in the ring with. Adam resides in NC now-sure I'll run into him down the road. Glad that him & I are in a good place. We came in as friends, & went out that way."

Shannon Moore - "Yeah my wife told me about Edge turning in his boots last night. I'm Happy that he knows when the ring is a danger. You guys remember that Wrestling is a Biz to us and luxury to you. Edge will do great in his next steps of Life. Thank you Edge for all the bumps and bruises that you put your body through. You where one of the best in the ring. Hopefully some young guys takes notes. Young man does well for himself =makes money=saves money=retires young=lives ever after a good life. Who knows he might get better and make a big return. You never know!!!!!"

Seth Rollins - "It's sad...and scary for me."

Steve Corino - "I always enjoyed Edge. Good dude too. Always nice (must be the Canadian in him). Good luck to him in his future. Def HOF guy."

MVP - "You know Edge the performer. I know Edge the person. 1 of the best in ring performers EVER. His mind for our craft is AMAZING! HOF'er!"

Tara - "Good luck to Edge on his future endeavors. He will be missed. But he is going to love retirement. Enjoy !"

Blue Meanie - "is shocked at hear that Edge is having to retire from wrestling......While I will miss watching him perform I am glad the diagnosed him in time to spare any further damage......He is a great guy. One of my favorite opponents that I had in the WWF......His success has been well deserved and I wish him I happy and HEALTH rest of his life."

Shad Gaspard - "I'm extremely sad to hear about edge being forced to retiring. One of the few upstanding guys left in the business and a great locker room leaders. Glad he can leave a champion & on top after a great match at WM. Adam you will be missed.

Frankie Kazarian - "True class act. A boy with a dream is now a man who has left behind an incredible legacy. Thank you for all you have given"

Lord TSC

CMpunked wrote: »

As we know HHH will be running the show some day, he would be a fool not to get edge a job in creative, (starting off a creative team of ex-wrestlers such as himself and edge) he could be very very good.

That would be cool. In his blog on Edge, Dave Laguna mentions the following on his time off in 2003 with the neck injury...

Not many people know that Edge went to the boss and asked “what he could do” in the time off. And for a short period, Edge was part of the WWE creative process. I remember the first time I sent him the script he called me and asked, “Okay, now what do we do.” Edge would offer input, give ideas and really wanted to keep himself fresh. But his passion was focused on returning to the ring. As he got closer, we’d talk from time to time and he was chomping at the bit. He knew that when he came back, he would make it his time.

jmolloy

Next Tuesday 19th at 7pm GMT Total Wrestling Show will be presenting a very special LIVE TWS Legacy on EDGE ,The Rated R Retrospective. Send emails on Edge and his career to studio@totalwrestlingshow.com or leave a voicemail at TSCAndy1. And be in the chatroom and interact on the night! www.totalwrestlingshow.com

If this is anything like the tough enough and HBK retrospectives they've done it will be good listening

Machismo Fan

http://mickfoley.typepad.com/

For those of you who don’t know, Edge and I used to regularly perform one of the greatest tag-team moves of all time. Let me set the scene for you. Any arena, in any part of the country for roughly an eighteen month period -maybe early 1999 through late 2000. Al Snow, despite what I may have written in the past, was actually quite a witty guy; more than capable of holding his during the course of our legendary (if ridiculously drawn-out) battle of the brains. Think of each insult or joke as a punch, putting together as many as possible - some better than others, some hitting their mark, other missing wildly – with the ultimate goal of knocking your verbal sparring partner out. It was not unusual for Al to start off strong, peppering me with jabs, sinking some solid body shots. But like DeNiro in Raging Bull, Al Snow never did put me down. Why? Because he lacked my secret weapon. Because, literally, he had no Edge. But I did.

Sensing that his friend might be in danger of an embarrassing loss to the underdog Snow, Edge would leap into action, overselling the laughs at whatever feeble comeback I tried to mount, before combining with me to hit the valiant, yet doomed Snow with that most incredible of finishers – The White Guy Jumping High Five! The move was a guaranteed knockout: creating such waves of laughter among my WWE contemporaries, that Al would simply concede defeat, saying something about how it wasn’t fair, that Edge was my henchman, that my jokes weren’t even funny, blah, blah blah. All valid points, but none of that mattered at the time..or even now. All that mattered then..and now, is that Edge was my secret weapon, and that I was undefeated in locker-room (or airplane, train, boat, baseball games..you get it) showdowns with Al Snow.

It didn’t take a crystal ball to see that Edge was going to be a star. He clearly had the moves, the look, the charisma. But it wasn’t until a particular “Brood” interview, where Gangrel seemed to stumble verbally, that Edge was given a chance on the stick – an opportunity he took full advantage of; leaving all the boys with that unmistakable “ohh, he can talk, he’s going to draw money” feeling. Clearly, this guy was not meant to be either silent or brooding, and within a matter of weeks (or so it seemed) Edge and Christian had been de-Brooded and began to explore their more comedic side, from the 5 second poses for those with the benefit of flash photography, to their stellar showdowns with the kick-ass, take-names new Commissioner of WWE –me! I’ve often mentioned that my days as WWE Commissioner were among the happiest of my career. And of all the things that went into making that time so happy, nothing made me happier than to work with Edge and Christian on a series of bizarre, innocent and ridiculous backstage vignettes we collectively referred to as “Chredgeley” – as in CHRistian, EDGE, and foLEY. You know, until I wrote that out, I never realized that Edge got his whole name in there, and Christian and I only got three letters each. Hey, that doesn’t seem fair! Not trying to sell A DVD here, (especially since I have a new one coming out on 4/19 that I WILL be trying to sell) but I enjoyed working with Jay and Adam (pretty sure you know which is which) so much, that I specifically asked for a “Credgely” compilation package on 2000’s “Hard Knocks and Cheap Pops” video.

As funny, and as talented as each were, it wasn’t until Summerslam 2000’s “Tables, Ladders and Chairs” match that the world began to see them as legitimate superstars, and ironically, not until returning from 2003 spinal fusion surgery on his neck, that Edge was given a legitimate chance at breaking through that glass ceiling; the invisible, yet very real barrier that prevented most WWE Superstars from ever taking that final step from Superstar to SUPERSTAR – from valuable role-player to main eventer. The 2003 Edge didn’t tap at that ceiling. He didn’t ask politely if he might gain entry. He smashed through it, just bleeping shattered it. He didn’t take that final step; he pretty much just vaulted over everybody. And he did it with a hybrid of tools – ring experience, psychology, humor, physicality, determination – that allowed him to steal just about every show he appeared on. I got to see a few of those matches live. I watched many more on television. Hell, I even got to be in one of them – Wrestlemania XXII, where the Edgester wove his magic spell on a clearly out of shape, past his prime relic of a by-gone era and allowed him (meaning me) to have that one elusive great Wrestlemania moment.

I had no doubt at the time, 2006, that Edge was the number one wrestler in the business. I think one could put up an argument that he was the number one wrestler for a period of time during any one of a number of years. His matches with the top WWE stars of his era – The Undertaker, Triple H, Rey Mysterio, Randy Orton, John Cena, etc. etc. – are the stuff of legend. If there is any weakness to an argument for Edge, it is that he did amazing matches with such regularity that I’m not sure fans could completely appreciate just how amazing they were. Following my Mania match with Edge, I spent a LONG time in bed, caught a late flight, and made it home just in time to see Edge on Raw, stealing the show again – less than 24 hours after stealing the biggest show of the year.

I don’t know if there will ever be a consensus on who the best wrestler or worker of that era (call it 2003-2011, starting and ending with the neck injury) is or was. I once said I could make a good argument for Shawn Michaels - and I can. I think I could make a pretty good argument for Kurt Angle. Based on big money matches, some might say Triple H. For pure wrestling, maybe AJ Styles or Samoa Joe, or any number of Japanese stars who have flown beneath the mainstream radar.

But look at the other attributes that Edge brought to the table. A willingness to fully immerse himself in every storyline – to make people believe, or at least to believe that he believed. He embraced the ridiculous. He loved the emotional. He thrived under pressure. He stood up for what he thought was best for his characters, his matches, his opponents, and the shows. As viewers, we knew that every segment he appeared in was going to be good. But more importantly, we knew that any segment with Edge had the potential be great. In baseball terms, he was a five-tool player; a guy who could do it all. There have been other five-tool players in the wrestling game – guys who could wrestle, draw money, talk, create characters, be dramatic or comedic. But to me, he was the most versatile, and the most entertaining. So while there may be an argument over who the GREATEST WRESTLER was from 2003-2008, to me, there is no real argument over who was the era’s GREATEST PERFORMER. Hands down, it goes to Edge. What an incredible person. What an amazing career.

ayatollah

Machismo Fan wrote: »

http://mickfoley.typepad.com/

mick foley = class act

Eire-Dearg

That last video El Loco posted.

Just

sky88

just watched edge goodbye little bit of a tear in the eye

Teamshadowclan

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

Have a feeling I'll agree with you for the reasons why but I'll ask anyway; why do you say that?

Has to have his own entrance and music and such on a night that, not only isn't anything about him, but it's the retirement of someone you'd never even associate with him.


I didn't mind H having his own theme and stuff for Flair's send off, but for Edge? Attention seeking prick.

Butch Cassidy

Weird this may be the attitude generation's first retirement is it? Aside from Austin and the Rock of course which were huge spurts Edge was nurtured into the top spot over a number of years.

As someone mentioned, the promos on RAW Is War/Livewire during summer of 1998 where Michael Cole bigged up the mystique. His Raw debut against one of the Los Boricuas. Foley rightly checked off the Brood and then uber geek angles.

For me, like many I think, it was his heel run starting in late 2004 and culminating at some point in 2006 where he really showed he could carry the ball and lead a show. Face Edge was a bit too clean and safe. Seeing him getting beat up by Brock Lesnar in 2002 didn't really do much for me. It was playing the character of a manical heel who was obsessed with becoming the champion that was probably one of the better elements of the WWE in the last half a decade - a decade where championships have been heavily watered down.

Shame they never ran with a Edge/Christian feud but he's left behind some great stuff nonetheless. I think I have most of the matches on that Edge DVD but if Silvervision keept it at £7 I might have to pick it up if not least for the RAW and Smackdown matches.

Butch Cassidy

Also just to add, I think we're begining to see a new era of retirements where they're actually legit. Austin, Michaels and Rock retired for different reasons but are financially comfortable enough to not need to wrestle again. The stories we know about the old timer who should've given up years ago but beats his body up for a few hundred quid a night is a different era in some ways.

Handsome Bob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UWaR8z0yRo

That guy really is amazing at making them videos, HBK was right! :pac:

DM_7

I'd delighted for Edge.

He got a great thank you and a great Congratulations for a great career.

When you think about it he had nothing left to achieve in wrestling. It is great that WWE were able to look after a guy, catch the problems he had before a serious injury and give him a well deserved thank you.

His career ticked every box imaginable.

GTR63

I know Foley rates edge like us all but I can't help but feel that this looks like him kissing up to wwe to be rehired again.Like he did when he defended Linda McMahon.

parker kent

I'd say Foley is definitely politicking for a job later in the year. Funny if the Anonymous Gm is still up in the air, they might go for him.