WWE legend Edge is looking forward to new challenges after winning the 2021 Royal Rumble

Last Sunday, Edge entered the men’s Royal Rumble match in 1st place and overtook another 29 stars to emerge victorious and punch a ticket to the title match at the main WrestleMania event. The moment came when Edge was forced to retire early due to a neck injury after nearly a decade on the shelf in the Royal Rumble 2020.

Edge’s return had a high speed last June when he tore a triceps that sidelined the 47-year-old man again. After all the time spent out of action, Edge, the real name of Adam Copeland, still managed to compete in the Rumble game for almost an hour and return the next night with Randy Orton in his first match on Raw since March 2011.

“I’m not going to lie, I feel better,” Edge told CBS Sports on Monday. “I feel like I was thrown a little bit into a hurricane. I feel like I could have felt worse at the same time. If that makes sense. After seven months of torn triceps and a long break I had. Before, there’s no way to fully prepare for this, than to get in and do it. I was there for a long time and I had quarrels with a lot of people, so I didn’t know what I was going to feel. When the adrenaline started to wear off, I was like, “Oh, okay, I’m feeling this. I’m feeling worse. I’ll take it.”

Edge made sure he was able to compete successfully for his triceps injury for nearly an hour while he was still recovering from his cardio training. Knowing his cardio removed the great anxiety of receiving a second-round Royal Rumble victory where he wanted to, he said.

Another notable moment in Rumble for Edge and its overall story was the return of the former Christian Resident label’s best partner and best friend during the match. Like Edge, Christian also had to retire due to injury and had to go a long way back to try to finish his career on his own. Edge also gave some indications that Christian’s return would not be limited to a single spot on Rumble.

“Even though I knew I was back and cleaned last year, I knew it was cleaned last year and it was Rumble and now it’s Rumble this year, last year and it couldn’t be explained this month,” Edge said. “I refuse to try because I can’t articulate it properly. Sometimes it doesn’t feel real. I still wake up and think, ‘That was an amazing dream!’ But it’s happening, and I’m learning to accept and enjoy what’s happening and to live in the present of this thing that doesn’t happen. and we hope how much we like being able to do it again when we thought we were deprived of it – looking into our eyes, it’s the smiles on our faces or the stories we want to work on.

“Rumble Christian, when he was going down the ramp, was one of those cases where I was very happy. I was very proud of him and I was proud of the work he did, to clean up and be able to fight and fight. To do it again. Like me, he can end his conditions and when you don’t expect it can only be taken away. That is a difficult thing to swallow, and now it is not possible to have that opportunity. case, and that is very special. “

Copeland has been in the Royal Rumble for only two games and three solo games (all against Orton) in the year since his return, not only to WrestleMania, but has a vision of being a valuable full-time member. the list goes on. This means that many, many WWE stories that contain legends don’t fall into the trap of being told to the ThunderDome every week to be a part of the show.

“I didn’t go back for the most successful tour,” he said. “That’s why I didn’t come back. I didn’t want to make the biggest hits. I wanted to come back because I wanted to tell compelling stories. I wanted to get in with a lot of talent, so … if he could give me this wisdom after 29 years of trying to tell the story, that’s very it’s exciting for me.I love that talent a lot, and it’s exciting to be able to get into it.Do I know that I would necessarily try to work with WrestleMania? No. Many of these things are in your hands.I knew I would call for a job so I could do it. That’s part of my responsibility to return.

“I don’t want to be another body. I want to be able to help, and if I can help the whole industry. Does that mean Edge WrestleMania is the main event this year? Okay. I’ll do my part to make that happen and make it as engaging as possible. But I want to get back in there with a lot of talent. My goal is to get back to the main event at WrestleMania or Raw and tell great stories, whatever .. I was committed to this.After my family, this is my top priority.in a program titled WrestleMania if they ask me to stay? I’m here every week. That’s how it works. I haven’t come for a week and I’m going to be a guy who floats for eight weeks. If I get involved and I’m confused, I’ll be here every week because that’s how I work. “

The recurring theme in his conversation with Edge was the idea of ​​some of the most talented fighters on the WWE list who could never fight them. Asked about his commitment to being active and regular games, “if he were here every week,” Edge began throwing big names and ideas that would turn purist fighters into saliva.

“I’ve never put so many hands on these guys,” Edge said. “I scratched the surface with AJ Styles and Seth Rollins for the Rumbles. For me those two games have to happen. They just have to. Last night, I felt what Cesaro and Matt Riddle brought in. You go up and down the list and you think, ‘ Oh, what can I do with that guy. ”Ricochet and [Mustafa] Ali and Sami [Zayn] and all these guys I’ve never had a chance to get into there. That’s really exciting for me. This almost makes me feel young, maybe not after the game, but before and during. It’s very exciting. It really is, and that’s not all that’s going to happen. I will enjoy all of this.

“In a perfect world, I can get into each of them. It’s a little out of my control. But at least get into some of them and try to have amazing stories there, that’s why I came back, got in there and tried to tell stories with new talent. Let me get in with some people. Let me join Cesaro I would love to do an Ironman with Daniel Bryan I would love to get great talent I got a sample of Damien Priest and that was exciting It is so much fun for me because I can see with my eyes wide open this special and special moment because we are and I want more of them. “

Although the idea of ​​having an Ironman match with Bryan is enough to excite anyone, with WWE everything is blocked on the way to WrestleMania, the iconic event will take place on April 10th and 11th at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

Edge and WWE have yet to reveal which title they will win at the world’s biggest event of the year, but it was quickly remembered that the NXT tournament – now hosted by Finn Balor – is on the table with Roman Reigns ’universal tournament and Drew McIntyre’s WWE title . And, Edge said, there’s a lot of excitement in any of the three titles he pursues.

“I can’t go wrong for myself,” he said. “Each brings something different to the table and the kind of story that can be just as appealing. It’s all going to be different stories and I don’t think you can go wrong with one of them. To be the best in the business. I don’t know what that is, really. With Drew, his you can follow the path to get back here and get back on my way here.You have two guys you never met.back and what are here and maybe the main events of the WrestleMania WWE tournament.It’s believable.

“It’s also appealing to a guy like Roman Reigns, I think I’ve released him and they’ve always given me permission to take out the guy I knew. It’s very exciting to see a performer click through so many levels and tell amazing stories. I look at that and I think, ‘ Hey, man, that would be fun. “Drew’s dynamic is completely different, and it would be me and a completely different story. Maybe it’s not based on respect – it’s Rocky and Apollo Creed. Then I see a guy like Balor, never better which has not been the case, and that is also exciting.