Edge comments on the timeline for his eventual retirement.
“The Rated-R Superstar” was forced into early retirement due to injuries in 2011. He returned at WWE Royal Rumble 2020, and he has competed at four WrestleManias, as well as several other high-profile shows, ever since.
Speaking with Logan Paul on IMPAULSIVE, the WWE Hall of Famer was asked how much longer he thinks he can keep competing before he retires.
“I don’t want to stick around to the point where it’s like, ‘Oh, there he is,'” Edge said. “You know, ‘Oh, okay.’ We’ll give him the courtesy cheer. I don’t want to get there. When I come out now, I feel the explosion. I feel all of that to throw at them, and that’s still there. I don’t know if that, for me, would ever go away.”
Edge continued by noting that Rocky Balboa resonated with him because the monologues in the movie connected with the feelings he had as he was beginning his comeback. He then stated that, at most, he might have another year where he can compete at an elite level.
“I feel like, in this last run, like the Rocky Balboa movie, which I watched two nights before my comeback, and I was in tears because Stallone’s monologues in it were all things that were going through my mind,” Edge said. “I realized I gotta get this out of the basement because I didn’t have the chance to end it the way I wanted to. This time, I’m gonna get to do that. Now, I got two little girls that I gotta spend the rest of my life taking care of.
“So I got a little wish list of things that are still to do, but it’s not long, and neither is the time. I think at most I might have another year in me, to be able to do at this level and still be able to do it at an elite level where I can still hang and I gotta get in with Austin Theory, who’s 25. He wasn’t born when I had my first match for WWE, you know what I mean? I want to be sitting on my mountain and watching you guys do your thing and just going, ‘Man, good for them.'”
Edge last wrestled when he defeated Finn Balor in a Hell in a Cell Match at WWE WrestleMania 39.
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