– World Heavyweight Champion Edge recently spoke to PostCity.com to promote this weekend’s WWE live event in Toronto. Here are the highlights:
How did a boy from Orangeville become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion?
I won a contest by the Toronto Star. You had to write an essay about why you wanted to be a wrestler, and the winner would get free training. So I thought, “OK, this is my shot.” So I wrote this essay and the manager said, “Come on down so we can take a look at you.” So I went down the next week, no insurance on my car, made it down there. They called me and said, “OK, you’re the guy, we’re going to train you for free.” Coming from a single-parent household, I would not have been able to afford the $3,000 at 17 years old to start. I would have eventually done it somehow, but that sped up the process massively.
What was your argument in your essay?
I basically said I’m willing to starve to make it. It didn’t expect it to be all limousines and things like that. I assumed it was going to be pretty lean for a long time, and maybe for the entire career. But I just wanted to do it.
Your finishing move is called The Edgucator. Remind me how that one goes?
Well, I have a few. The main one is called “The Spear,” but yeah, I cheesily tried to incorporate “Edge” into as many moves as I could. There’s “the Edgecution,” “the Edgucation,” “the Edgumatic.” I also have “the Con-chair-to,” which is hitting a guy with two chairs, but now because we don’t hit people in the head with chairs, I do it to the knees and stuff like that.
So now that you’re the world heavyweight champion, what’s next on your to-do list?
Honestly, it’s going to sound stupid, but this is the tenth time I got it. I always said I’d do it once, so anything else from here is like bonus. Honestly, now I’m starting to think of things I want to do after. I want to train and make an attempt at Everest. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do it, but I think it would be cool to give it a shot. I still love it, it’s the greatest gig in the world for me, but I know my body can’t keep up with what my mind is telling me.
