On Monday’s episode of WWE RAW, World Heavyweight champion Edge announced that he is retiring from the squared circle.
According to sources in WWE, Edge’s retirement announcement is 100% legitimate and not a television storyline.
Edge said that he recently had his neck checked out and the results were not good. This is also a legitimate issue and not a storyline.
From what we’re hearing – Edge was told he could go out in the ring and say whatever he wanted.
It was announced on RAW that Edge will forfeit the World Heavyweight title on Friday’ SmackDown. At this time – there’s no word on what will happen with the belt.
We’ll have a lot more on this story during the week, new details are coming in already. Stay tuned.
(Credit to pwinsider for some of the information used in this report)