Toxik916
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Post by Toxik916 on Dec 6, 2013 3:47:32 GMT -5
Edge was the man! I still have a rated r superstar decal on the back window of my truck.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Dec 6, 2013 3:54:32 GMT -5
His spears, unless done in a unique way/postion, suck ass. But he is one of the best heels in the modern era.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Dec 6, 2013 5:57:45 GMT -5
Genuinely one of my favourite wrestlers of all time. I always preferred him over Christian in the Brood, and I remember being happy when him and Rey won the tag belts.
Then when I came back after my hiatus watching, New Year's Revolution was the first PPV I saw, and after the Elimination Chamber, here comes Edge, with awesome music, beating John Cena for the title! I marked out so hard.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 6, 2013 5:59:19 GMT -5
Edge never sucked and always got crowd reaction. There's not many people you can say that about. He was also one of the few heels to get legitimate boos on a regular basis as we slowly transitioned into the reality era. Edge is one of the few heels who legitimately wanted you to hate him - other examples include late-90s Triple H - and so would avoid having redeeming qualities as much as possible.
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VersionOne
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Post by VersionOne on Dec 6, 2013 7:02:56 GMT -5
It sounds like you have more or less the exact same experience while watching the Edge Doc as I did. I think I even made a similar post and Dubbed him "My WWE champion" as in he was the guy I remember watching through out his WWE career, and is the guy I felt most connected. I then found out that his debut was 6 days before the first WWE program I ever watched.
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Post by Bootista on Dec 6, 2013 10:31:37 GMT -5
Always liked him better than Christian.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 6, 2013 10:36:44 GMT -5
I think I know him.
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Post by The Beast Disincarnate on Dec 6, 2013 13:55:47 GMT -5
Worst spear in the biz. great with Christian, great as a rising heel, but after he won the big one, I couldn't stand him anymore. The last years of his career he was really a big pain to watch. The multiple and uneventful reigns, the Familia days, the atrocious last face run...I don't miss him at all, probably like Cena after he retire (in 2050)
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Dec 6, 2013 14:05:53 GMT -5
Loved watching him, loved listening to him. I miss him in the ring I was at his return in 04, cheered him at ONS 06, saw him send in the Clones at Armageddon 07, watched him WANT to face Undertaker in the HiaC at Summerslam 08. I also got to see him beat up a laptop in person he could make just about any angle work,
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 6, 2013 14:11:45 GMT -5
Edge ending the original John Cena Reign of Terror was the greatest night in the history of our sport.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 6, 2013 14:18:52 GMT -5
I liked him when he was in the tag team ranks. There were so many great tag teams and doing revolutionary stuff (for WWF at the time) that it was so hot. IMO Hardy Boyz were just a tad bit better than Edge and Christian. Hardy Boyz could do all their amazing in ring moves and not have to say a word on the mic. Edge and Christian seemed to need it but just didn't have the charisma "it factor." I'm sure a lot will disagree with me. The flash photography bit just seemed lame. I wouldn't call Edge the Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart of the team because Edge's success came at a different time. He was allowed to do the rated R gimmick which he definitely needed to achieve singles main event status. Shawn was crude (more so in his DX role) but he had been over for years prior. He didn't need DX like Edge needed rated R. Matt Hardy really got shafted because of all of that but I'd say he won in the end. Reba Sky is much sexier and younger than Lita. For as mad as Matt was at Edge years ago, I'd be sending him a thank you card every year on his anniversary.
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Post by Bootista on Dec 6, 2013 14:19:44 GMT -5
I liked him when he was in the tag team ranks. There were so many great tag teams and doing revolutionary stuff (for WWF at the time) that it was so hot. IMO Hardy Boyz were just a tad bit better than Edge and Christian. Hardy Boyz could do all their amazing in ring moves and not have to say a word on the mic. Edge and Christian seemed to need it but just didn't have the charisma "it factor." I'm sure a lot will disagree with me. The flash photography bit just seemed lame. I wouldn't call Edge the Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart of the team because Edge's success came at a different time. He was allowed to do the rated R gimmick which he definitely needed to achieve singles main event status. Shawn was crude (more so in his DX role) but he had been over for years prior. He didn't need DX like Edge needed rated R. Matt Hardy really got shafted because of all of that but I'd say he won in the end. Reba Sky is much sexier and younger than Lita. For as mad as Matt was at Edge years ago, I'd be sending him a thank you card every year on his anniversary. LOL Good one.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Dec 6, 2013 14:52:54 GMT -5
Worst spear in the biz. great with Christian, great as a rising heel, but after he won the big one, I couldn't stand him anymore. The last years of his career he was really a big pain to watch. The multiple and uneventful reigns, the Familia days, the atrocious last face run...I don't miss him at all, probably like Cena after he retire (in 2050) i like your avatar's reaction to reading that post
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 6, 2013 15:27:17 GMT -5
I liked him when he was in the tag team ranks. There were so many great tag teams and doing revolutionary stuff (for WWF at the time) that it was so hot. IMO Hardy Boyz were just a tad bit better than Edge and Christian. Hardy Boyz could do all their amazing in ring moves and not have to say a word on the mic. Edge and Christian seemed to need it but just didn't have the charisma "it factor." I'm sure a lot will disagree with me. The flash photography bit just seemed lame. I wouldn't call Edge the Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart of the team because Edge's success came at a different time. He was allowed to do the rated R gimmick which he definitely needed to achieve singles main event status. Shawn was crude (more so in his DX role) but he had been over for years prior. He didn't need DX like Edge needed rated R. Matt Hardy really got shafted because of all of that but I'd say he won in the end. Reba Sky is much sexier and younger than Lita. For as mad as Matt was at Edge years ago, I'd be sending him a thank you card every year on his anniversary. LOL Good one. ha. I don't think King could have done any better in his search for a younger woman. To me, Edge seems like a guy, especially since he retired young, that will be viewed as someone much more revolutionary than he really was. I think of him like the Butters "Simpson's did it" episode where everything that Edge was doing had been done by someone else previously. The live sex was done similarly by Val Venis and Terri Runnels. It may have been on Titan Tron and not in front of the crowd but we all knew what was supposed to be going on under the covers. Venis was fairly revolutionary himself but suffered because so many Attitude Era guys were saying sexual or doing sexually charged things like DX with the women rolling up their tops to reveal bare breasts. Because the Attitude Era had past by 2005 Edge got over because a dozen other guys weren't doing the same thing he was. Personally, I see Edge's career as overshadowed by his poor behind the scenes decision. I believe he was still married at the time, to Venis' sister, so I'm sure he had to pay lots for a deserved divorce and I'm sure his former wife was humiliated with all her husbands dirty laundry coming out on TV. As for Matt, perhaps Lita was his soulmate as he thought at one time and with being let go it seems he was a "if he didn't have bad luck he wouldn't have any luck" type of guy. If I were to meet him in-person I'd tell him "I'd like to have your kind of bad luck."
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Post by Boo! on Dec 6, 2013 15:32:53 GMT -5
I think Edge is someone for whom perhaps the WWE title was beyond him. And I mean that respectfully but while I think he was a great IC champion and had he remained as such would have been considered one of the best of all time in that spot - as a main eventer I found him somewhat unsubstantial. I think his run at the top underlined just how needing top guys and how transitional things were. It was a bit like Rick Rude in the sense that at IC level he worked and worked brilliantly but when the step was made to the main belt and main event scene - something just didn't click for me.
Guys who have been promoted from the midcarder to main event over the years - Bret, Rock, Austin, Cena, Orton, HBK, HHH, Foley, etc - for their good or ills, all seemed like main event guys once they got there. I never got over the feeling with Edge that I was watching a midcarder, in a main event. It's not a knock on his talent but I never got that main event vibe from him. Similar to Jeff Hardy, I guess. As the young, daring, cocky, midcarder - sure. But IMO there was that intangible x-factor that guys on top of the card need that he was missing.
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Post by Kitchen Sink on Dec 6, 2013 15:54:09 GMT -5
He's my favourite wrestler of all time. Amazing in any role he played. I was never more excited for a guy to win the WWE title than I was for Edge
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Dec 6, 2013 19:32:47 GMT -5
Best heel of his generation. He never got over at the expense of his babyface rivals, he rarely won clean, and he had no desire to make himself look like anything other than a real piece of shit. Basically the opposite of 2003 Triple H.
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Post by deancubed on Dec 7, 2013 2:05:53 GMT -5
My all-time favorite wrestler.
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