WWE Hall of Famer Edge recently appeared on The Kurt Angle Show, where he talked about his career and time as “The Rated R Superstar”. Edge also talked about there being times that he hated the character such as when he was in a feud with Matt Hardy over Lita as it was really difficult for him.
Edge said:
“I think when everything with Matt [Hardy] and [Lita], I didn’t enjoy any of that, that was hard.” “It was a position that I put myself in and thought okay, I made my bed, I just got to deal with this. Then I thought okay, we’re here now, how can we pull a positive? Let’s make some money. That’s what we did, this is the situation, now let’s try and get something good out of this pretty lousy scenario, the matches were [good] though because I loved working with Matt. When I got to John, we kind of got on the same page and he realized what I was out to do, which was just that, to make him superman.”
“Once we both had that understanding, then we were off and running. I don’t think that program was supposed to last more than 3 weeks. After WrestleMania 22 when I got to work with Mick [Foley], who was another guy who just did so much for my career, then they circle back to John and I because it had worked so well in those 3 weeks and ratings went up and all those things. Once they went back to us, I think we ran for like a year and a half after that, just night in, night out. It kept going and going. The only thing with John and I is we never wrestled one-on-one at WrestleMania, which is crazy. We worked everything else but.”
Edge then talked about what type of an athlete John Cena really is as Cena is someone who can do just about anything and can feel out the crowd and adapt on the fly.
Edge said:
“John is very much a performer that likes to feel a crowd.” “I kind of liken him to Eddie Vedder [from Pearl Jam]. Eddie Vedder will drop a setlist for Pearl Jam, a different one every night and change it on the fly because he’s feeling the audience. That’s what John and I would do because you just don’t know what an audience is going to do. To be able to think on your toes and to be able to go with your gut out there, that’s what John and I did and that’s fun.”
