WWE Hall of Famer was recently interviewed on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast. Scroll down to watch the interview. Here’s a few transcribed highlights:
Edge talking about why he built a gym in his home:
“I dialed in my diet and started using a meal company. I built the gym in the house and that changed everything. I hate working out in gyms anywhere else. I’m there to work. I’m not there to look at my phone. I saw a dude watching a movie while he’s doing crunches. So here’s the deal. I got a fused wrist. I got half a pec attached here. I got no labrum. I got a triple fusion on my neck. I got a torn achilles. This pec is completely torn off. This tricep is torn off. I got to tailor based on what I’m feeling, based on my injuries, based on what I’ve been through. I even built the gym with that in mind. Everything’s very specific to my needs and my capabilities.”
On the differences between Edge and Adam Copeland:
“It’s slowly grown closer, especially with this run coming back after the retirement, second neck surgery, and everything. It’s a lot closer to Adam now. I really made that conscious decision to go out there when I have a microphone, it’s not many filters. You know, obviously I gotta ramp it up. I gotta get intense. I got to sell tickets. I got to do all of those things, but I also tried to be really relatable and by being relatable, I just throw Adam out there. Because everybody sees the documentaries, because they see the story that it took to get back, I mean that’s all Adam. That’s got nothing to do with Edge. It’s just to get back to being Edge.”
On if he had any vices during his career:
“Here was my thing. Anytime I went out and did party, I felt like crap and it affected my performance. To me, the performance was the most important thing. I didn’t see that as a kid and go, I can’t wait to become a wrestler so I can party. I want to go out and do this (wrestle). I just love to read. I would just go back to my room and I’d read. I read 72 books last year. I carry a book with me wherever I go.”
On turning down the offer to end The Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak at WrestleMania 24:
“I think his streak at that point was like 15-0. It was kind of thrown by me like, ‘What do you think?’ I was like, ‘Absolutely not. Why would we do that? That makes zero sense to me. I’m already a made man. I’m in the main event of WrestleMania. What’s it going to do for me? Sure, it would do something I guess, but like, let’s save that. Let’s save that for somebody who can really use that boost.’ To me, as the years started going and going, I was like, ‘Reigns is that guy. Let’s save it for that’, but it wasn’t my call, obviously. But when it was brought to my attention or at least thrown by me as an option, I just thought no because it was just as important as the world championships at WrestleMania, so why take away one of our marquee attractions. Again, I was already made. If I’m in the main event at WrestleMania, I don’t need the streak. I don’t need to break that.”
If he ever regretted that decision:
“Not at all.”
On if he thought it was a poor decision for Brock Lesnar to end The Undertaker’s streak:
“Yes. The only reason I say that is because I don’t think Brock needed it. He was already a world beater. He was already UFC Heavyweight Champion. He was already all of these things, whereas Roman was just on the cusp, and if he were the first guy, oh man.”
On how much longer he is going to be wrestling:
“I don’t want to stick around to the point where it’s like, ‘Oh, there he is.’ Now when I come out, I feel the explosion and I feel like all of that to throw at them and that’s still there. I don’t know if that for me would ever go away. I feel like in this last run like the Rocky Balboa movie which I watched two nights before my comeback and I was in tears because Stallone’s monologues in it were all things that were going through my mind. I realized I gotta get this out of the basement because I didn’t have the chance to end it the way I wanted to. This time I’m gonna get to do that. Now I got two little girls that I got to spend the rest of my life taking care of. I got a little wish list of things that are still to do, but it’s not long, and neither is the time. I think at most, where I can still hang when I gotta get in with Austin Theory who is 25 and he wasn’t born when I had my first match for WWE.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Impaulsive with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
