Edge Reveals How His WrestleMania Match Felt With No Fans

WrestleMania 36 was the most unique wrestling spectacle the WWE has put on for several years. The complete lack of fans at the Performance Center meant that the matches themselves had to go an extra mile to make sure viewers at home didn’t lose interest.

One of the biggest matches of the weekend was the last man standing match between Edge and Randy Orton, which went nearly 40 minutes and ended with Edge hitting Orton with a Con-Chair-To to win.

Edge appeared on this week’s After the Bell podcast with Corey Graves to discuss the match and the lack of fans.

“I mean, you have to admit there was disappointment. Because you know as a performer? We want to be in front of the audience you know? It’s not the same without the audience there physically. They’re watching at home, and that’s what you have to try and focus on. It is the performance for the people at home that are hopefully reacting; the way that you would want them to within the arena.

“You got to just try and look at the positives. That’s all you can do, because otherwise the wormholes get very deep and it’s just not worth it. So it was disappointing sure, but pretty quickly I went ‘okay well this is what we have, so now what can we do?’ Let’s let’s try and look at this in different terms, you know, and then I started thinking about it in cinematic terms and apparently I wasn’t the only one!”

He went on to say that he feels a live audience really adds to the viewing experience for people at home, but that he had to try and make the match as watchable as possible.

“That’s really what what I tried to do just focus on the story. And to me the story is always the steak. If the story’s there? I think you can do it without an audience. Sure there’s those challenges, don’t get me wrong. And you do feed off of it with adrenaline and things like that.” “I do think an audience can take something and make it better, just purely by their reaction and how invested they are. And I think an audience at home does feed off of that. But the circumstances we have is what we have to work with. That’s our job that’s what you have to try and do. And that’s how I just tried wrap my mind around it very quickly. Then also for me to understand that I have, who I believe to be the most talented person in the industry, in Randy Orton as my partner. And my opponent! But my partner as well.”

Thanks to Wrestlingnews.co for the quote transcription.

 

 

• corey graves
• WrestleMania
• Edge
• wwe

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