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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Sept 15, 2014 17:02:40 GMT -5
I think he grew a chip on his shoulder after, allegedly he implies it on his 2011 DVD, that guys with power backstage tried to sabotaje his early push in 2006, and that his short title reign was because of it, maybe he held a grudge with some people after this. And like a poster said earlier, the whole Matt Hardy debacle, caused that no one talked to him in over a year. Also he didn't had Christian around that time, so I think he kept mostly to himself.
I read Edge's first book, it wasn't that good he tried to hard to be funny, and it seemed like he was close with a ton of people backstage, he never buried anyone...how one action can change a person's life...
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 15, 2014 17:04:30 GMT -5
Edge obviously was/is good friends with Christian, and I know he got along well with Storm and Rhino since they had worked with him in his early days. I think Test fell in that group, too. Edge also got along well with Foley, enough to blatantly base a lot of his promo style on him. Seriously, though, he was often a participant in Foley's pranks. Didn't he also like or have a lot of positive things to say about Owen Hart? Probably, I could see them having had some common ground on a few fronts, though I don't know for sure what their deal was.
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Post by A damn road sign on Sept 15, 2014 17:18:14 GMT -5
Didn't he also like or have a lot of positive things to say about Owen Hart? Probably, I could see them having had some common ground on a few fronts, though I don't know for sure what their deal was. "When I think about Owen, I smile" were Edge's words on the tribute show. Think he loved Owen the same way most of the locker room at that time did.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 18:07:48 GMT -5
From the comments he made about Cena in Jericho's podcast it seems like he wasn't too fond of him. He gave Cena a shoutout in his Hall of Fame speech and commented how they call each other "old shoe" because of how they just fit when they feuded together. Cena equally has called Edge "the Einstein of our business" and the like before now, they've always seemed pretty close to me. It's also possible they didn't like each other personally or talked much backstage but having really good chemistry with each other in the ring. Like you hear stories of linemates in hockey who don't like each other but having insane chemistry with each other or a how a QB and a star wide received don't like each other but they read each other well. Honestly who cares and if it's true one or they don't like each other it's cool how they don't talk about it and instead praise each other's abilities as performers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 18:15:30 GMT -5
After 3 pages we all know Edge is histories greatest monster! Edge obviously was/is good friends with Christian, and I know he got along well with Storm and Rhino since they had worked with him in his early days. I think Test fell in that group, too. Edge also got along well with Foley, enough to blatantly base a lot of his promo style on him. Seriously, though, he was often a participant in Foley's pranks. Didn't he also like or have a lot of positive things to say about Owen Hart? "You thought you knew me? If he lived past 1999 I may have found a problem with him!" - Edge, 2014, in reply to agent817
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Post by agent817 on Sept 15, 2014 19:47:50 GMT -5
After 3 pages we all know Edge is histories greatest monster! This man has Edge beat.
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Sept 15, 2014 19:59:58 GMT -5
After 3 pages we all know Edge is histories greatest monster! This man has Edge beat. Edge never had the same kind of redemption.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Sept 15, 2014 20:00:57 GMT -5
Given when Edge worked with him, in his post-NXT/Pre-Funking up phase, where he was plodding and borderline dangerous in the ring as well as Edge's neck problems....I'd not be a fan of working with him either. Brodus was one of the last people Edge worked with before Del Rio at WM 28, there's a clip of Edge spearing Brodus on the outside of the ring and Edge holding his neck afterwards, I'm sure you will find comments saying BRODUS ENDED EDGE'S CAREER!!!11. Really Brodus Clay's job at that time was just to be a giant target, it's not like he did a botched German suplex on Edge or something. Oh, I'm not saying he actually injured Edge in any way, just that...well.....he shouldn't have been part of a WM Title match at that point in his career.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Sept 15, 2014 21:44:29 GMT -5
I have three things to add on this. One is that after the Matt Hardy situation, Edge said he went from pretty much a popular guy to persona non grata. It's entirely possible that he never forgave many people for their attitude towards him (rightly or wrongly). Two is that he managed to work with Matt Hardy without deliberately injuring him at any point, which says 'professional' to me at any rate. Three is that Mick Foley observed in The Hardcore Diaries that there is a difference between work friends and actual friends, and that he had precious few actual friends in the wrestling business or even in showbiz as a whole, because it's hard to call someone like that an actual friend. I also wonder if Edge's group of friends shrunk even before the Hardy/Lita thing. Edge was close to Val Venis, even marrying his sister. While divorcing his sister doesn't necessarily mean that Val stopped liking him, the fact that he divorced her and remarried a few months later suggests that Edge got a start on his relationship with his second wife before his first marriage was over. This also makes the fact that he cheated on his second wife with Lita just a few months into his marriage to her look even worse. As far as whether I thought Edge would be professional with Matt, I was more concerned about the other way around. Matt had shown (and would do so again many years later) that he was not necessarily the most mentally balanced person when he first got released. My understanding is that they worked a little stiff with each other, but both were professionals because it would have been so easy in the matches that they had for an "accident" to have occurred. Heck, it seemed that it was a little therapeutic for them as they were at least on decent terms later (though I would be surprised if they were friendly, but stranger things have happened).
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