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Jan Murphy of The Toronto Sun has a great interview with WWE Hall of Famer Edge discussing his return to the ring and his current run up to tonight's Wrestlemania 39 at this link.
On the time period where he was forced to retire, Edge said, "I just realized I had to wrap my mind around the idea that this was done and I was given no choice. When you’re given no choice, in a strange way it almost makes it easier because you’re told you can’t do this. Well, if I can’t do it, then the choice is being taken out of your hands.”
Stepping away from pro wrestling during the time he was retired: "“Over the nine years, wrestling went away for me. A lot of that was a conscious decision. When you’re told you can’t do it, it’s like ‘Hmm, well that feels like it might be painful to continue to watch something that I can’t do that I love. It’s hard to go back to being just purely a fan. You’re going to watch it a different way, you’re going to maybe not enjoy it and when it’s taken away from you like that …”
Returning: “When I did this before, I didn’t have kids. It was a lot easier before when I didn’t have kids because now there is that weight of that responsibility. I never worried about being safe before, and now safety is a concern. And then there’s the aspect of ‘OK, well, how’s my wind going to be because I haven’t done this in nine years.’ Nothing can prepare you for all of that emotion directed entirely on you. It’s a bit of a mind melt."
Wrestling Today: "I’m having the time of my life,and it almost took the nine years away so that when I got this back, I’m like ‘I’m not looking past any aspect of this.’ I’m going to soak in every nanosecond of this, and that goes to the entrance, that goes to the match, that goes to the promos, that goes to every aspect of it. I am all in and I’m trying to create. I feel like just on the entrances alone, I come flying out there, having the time of my life and throwing as much energy as I have at that audience. And I think they see it, so they throw it back and then it becomes a thing. Now it’s this communal kind of relationship and I didn’t have that before. I didn’t have it like this. It feels different now and I think I feel different to them now because a lot more of Adam is out there now. There was no Adam out there before. I was just playing a character. Now, it’s blurred a lot because the veil has been pulled back on our industry a lot so now they know Adam’s ride and road to get Edge back. I think that’s made the dynamic and the relationship a lot deeper and a lot different than it was before."
On getting closer to the day he will retire again, Edge admitted, "That’s what I’m encountering now and it is more difficult."
Potentially retiring in Toronto: “I would like it to be in Toronto. I think that’s something I want to hold firm to. Would I prefer it to be a pay-per-view? Sure. Would I prefer it to be in a stadium? Sure. But to me, it’s more important for it to be in Toronto than let’s say that it has to be WrestleMania. Just because that’s where I started. So why not bring it full circle and be like ‘There, that’s the end of the story.’”
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