Much of Adam Copeland, better known as WWF superstar Edge, remains a mystery. And just as his entrance music suggests - if you think you know him, you don't. Sometimes even he finds his ring persona grappling with his real-life identity. "I answer more now to Edge than I do to Adam," admits the Orangeville, Ont.-native. Copeland got his start after winning an essay contest through The Toronto Star. "The essays were submitted to Sully's Gym in Toronto," he explains. "The winner got free training and they chose me! That was the beginning, which was good because at the time, coming from a single-parent family and being 17-years-old, there wasn't a lot of extra cash floating around for wrestling classes."

Now a far cry from his struggling past, Edge has become what McMahon considers a "definite crowd-pleaser," holding former tag-team, King of the Ring and Intercontinental Champion honors - the latter of which he recently lost to that brass-knuckled Brit William Regal at the Royal Rumble. "I'll get my opportunity again," Copeland promises, adding it would be "cool" to get the title back at WrestleMania and for the second time at SkyDome. Speaking of WrestleMania, Copeland has some favorite memories of the event
himself. One is shared with childhood chum Jason Reso: aka Christian. "The first WrestleMania that Christian and I ever participated in was WrestleMania XVI," says Copeland. "We won the tag-team championship... We had dreamed of it since we were kids."

Favorite WM Moments:
"Growing up it would have to be WrestleMania VI, which was in the SkyDome. The Ultimate Warrior vs. Hulk Hogan match. I was a huge Hogan fan and I was there at 11th row ringside. It was just incredible, the atmosphere, the excitement and the electricity in the building that day. I'm really hoping Toronto brings that same electricity back this time. If I hadn't known it before, which I did, that match really made it sink in that I wanted to become a wrestler."


That's the article. There's a little side-bar that has quotes from Edge,
Trish Stratus and Jericho about being a Canadian wrestler.

Edge says:

"Toronto is still home, no matter where I live. It's weird because wherever Canadians go in Canada it's like we're hometown boys. You feel like a hometown boy who's done good."

Written by Anna Fleet of TV Guide Canada.
March 9-15 2002 issue.