I am sorry I did not do a blog last week. After Wrestlemania, and all that comes with it, I needed to take a weekend off. And I know I am late, but I will have my Mania pictures up this week, I promise (and if you missed me on the radio, you can drop me an e-mail, and I will send you a copy).
Now that that is all out of the way let’s get into wrestling. I know I have been very WWE focused lately with Mania coming around, and I have not mentioned a lot about TNA. I planned to make this blog all about TNA, but I would be remised to not talk about Edge and his abrupt retirement.
On Monday Night Raw, this past week, Edge came out in front of the fans, and retired, sighting injures over the past almost 20 years in the business. He was feeling pain and numbness in his arms and a loss of feeling in them. This is being called Cervical Spinal Stenosis.
Edge started his career back in 1992, on the independent circuit. He was traveling around Canada doing the Indys for years, until he made it to the WWE in 1998. From his WWE debut, he was a small time wrestler, who would always run through the crowd, and excite the fans. Later he and his best friend (WWE wrestler) Christian, and another wrestler, Gangrel,came together to form a wrestling faction named the Brood.
Edge would find singles success in 1999, winning his 1st Intercontinental Championship. This would not be the last title Edge would win. Though they dropped Gangrel, Edge and Christian went on to become a very accomplished tag team, winning the WWE World Tag Team Championships 7 times. The team stayed together until 2001, when both decided to focus on being singles competitors.
Edge became an up and coming superstar, winning back the Intercontinental title, the WCW US title, when they invaded the WWE, and even the King of the Ring Tournament, before he went down in 2003 with a neck injury. He was kept off of TV for a whole year.
Coming back in 2004, Edge won another IC title, World Tag Team Title; he even won the 1st Money in the Bank ladder match, guaranteeing him a World Title match. They even put his business on TV, when they brought up the fact that Lita, who was dating Matt Hardy at the time, and Edge were having an affair. Edge also started to change as a performer. The Entire time he was in WWE he was a baby face (good guy), until he came back from the injury. Then he turned heel (bad guy). He did everything in the WWE except win a World Championship till 2006.
Edge became the WWE champion after the New Year’s Revolution pay per view, after John Cena competed in the Elimination Chamber match. Though this was not a very long title reign, it would prove not to be his last. Edge would go on to win 10 more Championship, and the World Tag Team Titles, again. But on July 3rd 2009, Edge suffered an Achilles tendon injury.
And now, because of all of the injuries over an almost 20 year career, it is hard to see him go. But he said on Monday, he would not trade it for anything, and as a fan, I would still watch Edge entertain me. Good Luck Edge!
AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LLLLLLLLIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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