Edge Said He Considered Jumping To TNA When Christian Was There

On the latest episode of the Edge & Christian Pod of Awesomeness podcast (with special guest Kenny Omega), Edge revealed that he considered jumping to TNA Wrestling (now GFW) when Christian was there around 2008/2009. After being a WWE Superstar for over a decade, Edge’s body was banged up and the lighter scheduled TNA offered was tempting.

“Interesting little tidbit here that I don’t even know how much [Christian] know[s], if [Christian] even know at all, to be honest. I don’t recall talking to [Christian] about it. I don’t know how word gets out on contracts being up and things like that, but there was one point where my contract was coming up and TNA reached out to me, and [Christian was] there, so they reached out to me, and they told me numbers, and schedule, and all of these things. And for me, at that point, schedule was the thing that I was like, ‘well, that’d be a whole lot easier on the body’ because I was getting pretty beat up. It’s like [Christian] said, I started with WWE in ’97. At that point it was like 2008 or 2009. I can’t even remember. It’s a long time. Now, there [were] breaks because of injuries, but that was my body saying, ‘take a break dude,’ and I never did until something broke.”

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Edge continued, “The idea that [Christian was] there, and the opponents. If I went there, there’s [Samoa] Joe, there’s AJ [Styles], there’s a lot of fresh things to do, but for whatever reason, from day one WWE felt like my home. It felt like the place that I’d always wanted to get to.”

He added that he worked a few WCW TV tapings before joining WWE and could tell immediately that WCW was not a locker room he wanted to be a part of. His dream was to be in WWE and that turned out to be a great bet. The Rated R Superstar is an 11-time World Champion and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame back in 2012.

You can listen to the full podcast episode below. H/T to WrestlingINC for the transcribed quotes.