Edge Discusses The Judgment Day’s Growth

Edge Discusses The Judgment Day’s Growth WWE

WWE Hall of Famer Edge has been at war with the Judgment Day for so long, it’s easy to forget that he was the architect of the group.

The original Judgment Day consisted of Edge, Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley, before Edge was usurped by Finn Balor, and Dominik Mysterio was added.

Edge was a guest on WWE After the Bell, where he discussed the current state of the group, and if he ever envisioned the group being where it is now.

He said:

“I mean, no, honestly. I honestly thought maybe we would get to this part of the story now. You just have to make due and figure it out. And thankfully, they were given the reins to take this in a different direction. In an entirely different direction than it would have with Edge at the helm.

“Again, because with Edge at the helm, it’s swimming upstream because we’re trying to get an audience to turn on a character, but they know the backstory to this character. They know the real-life story behind this character. They know Adam’s story. So it’s like, well, we don’t really want to hate this guy because he fought back for something that he wanted to get back, and he’s also doing something that nobody’s ever done before. He’s wrestling with a triple fusion in his neck; no one has ever done that. So it can be hard to hate that.

“And I was trying. Every little like old school heel trick in the book I was trying. Calling them Cheeto-eating bastards and whatever else, but it wasn’t gonna work. It might have eventually with more time, but it would have taken a lot more work, whereas [Finn] Balor not being as firmly established, even though he’s established. Not 25 years of equity within the company because this June is the 25-year anniversary of my TV debut.

“So you got to figure like people have grown up watching me. Now they’re bringing their kids, and they’re saying to their kids, ‘Hey, check this guy out. He was there when I was a kid.’ That’s where I’m at now. So you have to look at it and kind of work with what you got. And thankfully, all four of them, with the addition of Dom [Mysterio], have taken this thing in completely different directions. I think they’re being more of themselves, and when you can be more yourself, then chances are it’s going to work because you’re going to inject the actual person behind the character with some reality with some truths with some actual interests with the way you would actually speak and that to me is absolutely key.”

Edge and Balor are set for a face to face on next week’s episode of Raw, seemingly to set up a match between the two at WrestleMania.

Edge also discussed how acting roles have helped him grow as a performer in WWE.

transcription via WrestleZone

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1 year ago by Connel Rumsey

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