While AEW fans enjoy seeing Cope these days, WWE fans are bidding farewell to the man they knew as Edge in 2023. The Rated-R superstar wrestled his final match in WWE on the August 18, 2023 edition of “WWE SmackDown” in his hometown of Toronto, Ontario, Canada against Sheamus, someone Edge has never wrestled with in head to head. Sheamus was a recent guest on the show”Preview” Podcast where he was asked if he was Edge’s last opponent in WWE, and while he’s not sure where the idea came from, he was more than happy to take on the challenge.
“We talked about it. I remember we talked about doing an angle together, a storyline together for a while. We came up with a storyline, it got shot down for some reason. And then this happened. I just to get a call, I think it was because we did a promo the week before, then we did the match the following week. No one really knew if he was going to stay or go. . I knew. I didn’t know. was going to stay, because we’re talking about doing something after that too But yeah, it was just a situation, I think originally Damian Priest was planned, but then it turned to me.
After checking Edge off the list of his dream opponents, Sheamus then cited names like CM Punk and Rey Mysterio as two of the only longtime WWE Superstars he has yet to face one-on-one. head. Coincidentally, this was not only Edge’s last match in WWE, but it was also the last match Sheamus would wrestle for eight months as he would be on the shelf with a shoulder injury until after WrestleMania 40 in April 2024.
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