WWE Hall of Famer Edge has given some credit to fellow WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels for helping him.
During a Q&A session on a recent episode of E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness, Edge looked back on how working with Michaels back in 2005 helped him in his transition from a tag team competitor into a singles star through their storyline.
If you recall, back in late 2004, Edge turned heel for the first time since 2001 when he helped Triple H retain the World Title over Michaels at the Taboo Tuesday PPV, which led to a program between Edge and Michaels that ended at the 2005 Royal Rumble.
“I think that was coming off of the Cyber Sunday or Taboo Tuesday, or whatever that pay per view was where fans voted on who would face Triple H in the world title match. I think that is where the whole angle started. That was when I was first starting to turn heel and was purely focused on that world title. Everything for the character, and Shawn Michaels was the first guy that I worked against with the incarnation of the character.
I think we worked a Royal Rumble opener and had a lot of fun and then we had a Street Fight on Raw–I want to say it was in Rhode Island,” Edge said. “I obviously always enjoyed working against Shawn. We had a lot of house show matches throughout the years that were kind of thrown together. I remember one in Laredo, Texas, which is a hot arena, about a 8-10,000 seat arena, and I remember we just went out there and put out 35 minutes and had a lot of fun by going out there and having Shawn Michaels and I just wing it. It was always a lot of fun.”
Edge went on to say that the rivalry with the WWE Hall of Famer was crucial to his development into a main event superstar.
“I don’t know how much creative was put together with our angle with the exception of me being an angry guy pursuing the title, who felt he should be world champion, and I think that Shawn was given the challenge from creative to get this kid over, because if it doesn’t happen with you then it’s probably not going to happen,” Edge said. “Now I know that it was the challenge that he was given if this could work or not, so I guess he helped me prove that I could so thank you Shawn Michaels!”
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