WWE fans missed out on seeing an Attitude Era favourite at Edge’s final WrestleMania after the company insisted ‘nobody remembered’ one iconic star.
Currently wrestling under his real name of Adam Copeland in Tony Khan’s All Elite Wrestling, Edge was a mainstay in WWE for much of the Canadian’s career.
He starred there from the late 1990s through to his eventual departure in 2023 across two memorable spells.
His final WrestleMania outing – for now at least – came at Mania 39, when he battled Finn Balor in a brutal Hell in a Cell match.
The encounter was a hard-hitting one, leaving Balor battered and in need of stitches to repair a major head wound, while Edge stood tall in what would end up being a triumphant send-off of sorts.
It was an eye-catching enough battle in its own right, though the Rated R Superstar later went on to reveal his own ambitions to make it even more memorable.
In what would have been a stunning throwback to his WWE heyday, he’d planned to go back to his roots as part of The Brood.
The menacing trio were a huge part of the company’s famed Attitude Era, Edge teaming up with Gangrel and on-screen brother Christian.
Wanting to recapture The Brood magic, the grappler turned actor had hoped to draft in Gangrel in a reformation of sorts for the group – only for WWE to shoot down the idea down in flames.
Brutally, Edge claims he was told the idea to utilise his pal as part of a Brood-inspired entrance was a no-go because fans wouldn’t remember the fearsome, fanged character, despite Gangrel being one of the most visually memorable of that time.
“I tried and I just got shut down,” he explained to Chris Van Vliet.
“Every person shut it down… I’d always get the ‘Well nobody remembers.’”
The 50-year-old insisted: “People remember, wrestling fans remember and I think wrestling fans want to be rewarded for remembering. And that’s a way to reward them. That’s what I’ve always felt.
“That was one I just kept getting shut down. I realised: ‘Okay, that was not a hill to die on because it didn’t get to happen.’
“It’s not my sandbox, I got to do with what I’ve been given.”
Now working under the Copeland name, the veteran first appeared in what was then the WWF in the summer of 1998, going on to rack up championship reigns aplenty as a tag team and singles star prior to his enforced retirement.
Serious neck issues meant the star was forced to relinquish his World Heavyweight Championship in 2011, before an equally stunning comeback in 2020 breathed fresh life into his career.
He featured sporadically over the following three years, and even wrestled in what was billed at the time as The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever against Randy Orton.
Wanting to wrestle more than an infrequent schedule in WWE would allow, he jumped ship to AEW four months after WrestleMania 39.
Currently their TNT Champion, he has, ironically enough, battled with former WWE Brood brethren and tag team championship partner Christian Cage.
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