BSWW.de: The WWE comes with the SmackDown! fire back to Germany. What is the largest difference between the public in North America and Europe?
Edge: There is a large difference. Which is noticeable to me at the public - whether in England, Germany or where we also go -, is the different singing. And it is another feeling. It is like that as on a large party. The people are here, in order to have fun. Whereas humans in New York already so often saw, new jersey etc. the product and are somewhat more tired. You must make many more, so that they react. But humans come here, in order to have a good time - and it makes more easily for the active ones, thus for us. If the public reacts strongly, then you make a better Show. In South Africa or Australia, everywhere there are other reactions - often a louder reaction. That is also because of it that we are here rarer than in the USA make young it fun, it is also so exhaustive, it wants to overseas, because the public reacts unbelievably.
BSWW.de: Edge, you now already spent some days in Germany on your Promotour. Did you take yourself time to see something from Cologne to?
Edge: I am here one week and wanted to make sure something to have seen. Otherwise it continues to go often fast into a city and directly to the next Show. Make as we it otherwise. I had time to look at over me Cologne cathedral and was deeply impressed. One evening I walked to the cathedral and he was unfortunately closed. I sat on a bank and him me simply in peace looked at. We do not have anything comparable in North America. I heard many voices of American tourists, because I believed that they all are drawn to the cathedral. European cities always remind me of Canada. The cultures are different, but there is a high European influence.
BSWW.de: Is this your second stay in Germany altogether?
Edge: Yes, the first time was not upper living . and that was one day I anything saw, we is now and then away. I could not find anything out over Germany. Many of my friends are married with German women. That is the whole German influence, which I have.
BSWW.de: The name of the Undertaker is an important person, if it concerns ticket sales into Germany. Do you think that the people buy tickets for WWE Shows, because they want to see special Athleten or the Show actually?
Edge: I think from each something. If you go to a WWE Show, this is not only developed on a person. It is not as with a Madonna concert, where you would hang and say, you wants Madonna to see. I think already that people are, which break into Lesnar to see want Undertaker, Kurt there fish. I am also sure me that people come, which want to see Rey Mysterio Edge, Big Show, Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero. It does not lie on the shoulders of a person. But I noticed since my arrival that everyone wants to see the Undertaker in Germany. Everyone mentions Bret hard and name of this era. Young their names have themselves made in the years 1993 and 1994. The people connect a quantity with this names. But I think, if the public comes and sees the new young, then it large fans of them will become. We take only John Cena or let us break Lesnar into, not only physically, but what they can do in the ring. That is property at the Wrestling. It does not rest on the shoulders of a person. Persons like the Undertaker help the Business, because they are icons in our industry. We develop new Icons. That is a progress as in every other industry.
BSWW.de: Edge, on 11 February 2003 you have the last mark with SmackDown! in the ring confessed. When it clear you was that this becomes your last match for a long time?
Edge: When I went into the match, I knew that somewhat is not correct. It was the evening, on which I had together sat with Chris Benoit and Rhyno. I asked it for its experiences, since they had the same as I. I had a bad feeling at the night and lost the strength in my right arm. At this point an operation meant. There was no more choice. I spoke with Chris Benoit and he said that exactly the same happened to him. I had the feeling, when I went into the match that it was a bad indication. I flew home and the doctor said: Operation. I have to begin still tried with NO Way Out, but they did not leave me any longer. I inquired still times, but they meant, the risk are too high.
BSWW.de: Would you say to enter an arena and wrestlen, is like a positive drug for each Wrestler? And if is correct, how much you miss it?
Edge: That is absolutely correct, you can the feeling did not replace. I cannot describe, how it is. If there twenty thousand, ten thousand, fifteen thousand or seventy thousand humans from their chairs jump up, because they want to see you or your character, then that is an unbelievable feeling. That is it, which I miss at most. In addition I miss the Zusammensein with the others young. To go eating with them to spend together time and feel like large children.
BSWW.de: Is an injury the price for success? High risks to go as into your TLC Matches? Is that a necessary victim?
Edge: I think already. If you realize yourself that this is your career, then the point comes, where something can happen. I do not believe that it creates someone, to carry through its career to go without an injury of it. And everyone, which is thereby, from Trish Stratus to Eddie Guerrero, has something that okay is not correct with it. Nearly everyone has once an injury, which forces it to an operation. Everyone has quasi an open wound, which concerns. But they are not hurt - if you are correctly hurt, then it is to be pausieren time and done something. As it also now happens to me. Which concerns me, I had the attitude to do something special. Christian thought as I. Also the Hardys and Dudleys thought this way we had that to do, in order to announce and make our requirements over clear, .Hey, we are hier.. We wanted to make day team Wrestling again that, what it was once. That was our goal. I think that it was necessary, in order to open and make on us for all the eyes attentive. That is the price and I is safe me, it to led where I am now. I think, five hundred German Suplexes of Kurt fish did its remaining in addition.
BSWW.de: Edge, I would like to quote from one of your last columns: .Bret hard opened the door for ME into WWE&I found out he considers ME his Prodigy. I wouldn.t want ton anyone else.s.. [ . Bret hard opened the door of the WWE for mich&I found out that he calls me his miracle child. I would like it for no different one sein.. ] which role play Bret hard for your career in the WWE?
Edge: I wrestlete in the Independent range and Carl DeMarco, the Canadian president of the WWE, saw me with a small Show before few hundred people. We remained in contact from then on. Bret hard had its knee injury at this time and was World champion. One said to me, I was to go point to him to Bret and, what I can do. I said, I can nevertheless not to Bret go and at its door not say, .Hi, I am Adam and am here ich.. We called Bret and it said, come. We drove. That was to be wrestlen at the same time the most ideal point, at which I got the opportunity, against Bret hard. It was hurt, but we tested some Holds. Bret belongs to the three large ones, which was for me Idole, during I buildup: Shawn Michaels, hulk Hogan and Bret hard. It made fun to work with it and it gave me then its recommendation letter. He spoke with Jim Ross and the next, which I heard, was that a contract waited for me. I am then after Stamford, in order to show, what I can do and signed mean first contract in the year 1997. Since then I remained in contact with Bret, which was last mark as I in Calgary. I was hurt, but arose in the WWE Show. Bret hard and I met us to the meal and it were the day, on which it had written the article in the Calgary Sun. I was surprised that Bret thought in such a way and it was perhaps the best radix complement, which I had ever gotten.
BSWW.de: Is Bret hard thus a kind model for you? Do you think - you learned from him?
Edge: I am lucky, in my career by a quantity of good people to have been trained. I trained of Ron Hutchinson and Sweet Daddy Siki. They guaranteed that I had first times the Basics drauf and that I knew, how one makes a Headlock, before one goes to a Moonsault. I think, that am very important. Then I was with Bret and came then to the first Funkin Dojo with Dory radio. I had good teachers. Then I came to the WWE and met people like the Undertaker or The skirt and learned from them. Already there they are, if you arrived straight only. It is a completely new learning experience. There you think, you are and stand now loosely before twenty thousands instead of before twenty people. That has however completely different dynamics.
BSWW.de: If we speak of Bret hard, then we must speak also about Owen hard. Its accident is now four years ago. You were its opponent in the last match in Owen Harts life. The same match with Christian and Jeff Jarrett took place also in Germany and it was also your first and only match in Germany. Does that call old memories in you awake?
Edge: I always remember. Particularly in this year I wrote in my Edgeucation column over the match in Germany. I did not know no more the fact that it jaehrte itself again and got a E-Mail and remembered again. I always think of the Matches and the time, which we spent together. And I do not laugh each time and that am anything bad, but what would have wanted Owen. It wanted always that the people laugh and are merry. I believe, he am merry, if he knows that the people have always a smile, if they think of it.
BSWW.de: Leave us over the Skydome in Toronto and your relationship with this resounds speak. As a young man you sat ringside with Wrestlemania VI. Your first match was against Pierre, then you won the Intercontinental title against Jeff Jarrett and Booker T with Wrestlemania X-8 defeated. There is a kind magic for you around the Skydome?
Edge: Yes, it seems so and also, if I had not been successful there, then also. I buildup and went to?Maple Leaf the Gardens? in Toronto. It was always my dream to wrestlen there. But the guards closed its doors and the WWE changed in the Skydome, so that I had never the chance, there to wrestlen. But I went also to the Toronto Blue Jays plays in the Skydome. When I was then the first time there, I was deeply impressed. It was gigantic and the Canadian public stood from the outset behind me. The first night against Pierre was there an enormous fun. I remember now again (laughs). But the match against Jeff Jarrett was? hmm, Wrestlemania X8 (considers)... no, I think, the match with Jeff was the best. It was my first title in the WWE and it was like a shock for me. I won the match, the decision was turned and then still times turned. For the public it was not a shock and I knew that happens. I thought of the Randy Savages and Ricky Steamboats, which were my Idole and which Intercontinental titles had already won. Then you win the title if you not remember it to win. That was lunatic. I had not such a thing experienced ever, apart from the conference to title with hulk Hogan. To be and with Wrestlemania X-8 to see and twelve years later, after I sat there, in order the Hogan and Warrior, hard the Foundation and the Rockers in order to be then even a part, which I cannot explain. Seventy thousand humans in your hometown. If I write times a book, that gets a chapter and I tell it mean to children and enkelkindern.
BSWW.de: Was the day team with hulk Hogan also a truely become dream? You had seen it with Wrestlemania VI against the Ultimate Warrior and had won the conference to title later.
Edge: That was something that I had not expected. When I saw hulk the first time, I never remembered to teamen once with him. I always knew, I wanted to the WWE, but I had not expected that hulk would be simultaneous there. It was a large surprise and everyone knows, what for a large Hulk Hogan fan I is. One decided, us teamen to leave and to hulk fulfilled my expectations. It was great to me for the first day. When the option came for a day team, it was for it - which a radix complement was. It made so much joy. If things happen, on which one does not count, make it more special for one around a multiple. To teamen with hulk, also without which we would have won the conference to title, if we had even been only once in the team, would be the highlight for me been. When we won the title then on 4 July, I felt like a large boy. If one looks at oneself it has I an enormous Grinsen in the face and I work like a large boy, who looks at its hero. It is a career highlight. Also today, if I look at the Videotape, I have a large smile on my face.
BSWW.de: Vince McMahon said times to you, you would hear too much on the public. How and which has Vince meant with it?
Edge: I do not know exactly, what he meant. I was straight only the second month in the WWE. I asked myself, what he meant, I was not yet surely, where it goes, how my character is. At the time I was still?Silent Guy?, that yet much over its character did not know. I always gewrestlet, in order to get reactions. That was it, which had been taught to me. Then it becomes clear you that you must tell a Story and that Public on you reacts and not you to the public. That changed then over the years and developed. The public has influence, but the influence lies in it, whom it to see to want. The Story and control lie in the hands of the Wrestler and are lost sometimes it. We found it again. I think, that have Vince meant... however point that already exactly? (laughs)
BSWW.de: Edge, when you are started in the WWE, you came by the public to the ring. Did energy for your lining up Matches give you?
Edge: Yes, that has it. If I am honest, it was not always a fun. I wore sun eyeglasses up, a Trenchcoat, the lights was out, to flashlight thunderstorms and people pull at you. You had to recognize, where you go and to watch out that you does not fall. I may rather come it from the ramp to. I can transfer my energy then better to the public. I get thus also more energy back. If I come from above down, then that could be done not so easily, since I was more reduced. On the ramp I can explode more.
BSWW.de: Is concentration behind the stage and curtain an important factor?
Edge: Yes, if you have an important match, then you must go through the corridors and to everyone see you there. You carry a Trenchcoat and a Tights. Then you stand there and wait. Your opponent already is in the ring. I remember first?Ladder match? against the Hardys with NO Mercy. We waited in a small corner. This match was one the largest in our past career. Christian was actually not nervous very, I. I do not become nervous normally before a match.
BSWW.de: One often saw, if a day team separates, then succeeds it only to one partner to come further upward. In the case of Christian and Edge you succeeded in both being very successful. This positive development lies in the fact that Christian with RAW and you with Smackdown! are?
Edge: I believe help. I believe, the separation us to both helped. If you are in the same fire, then one always compares. That is the old day team - one compares. When Christian went then to RAW, many things for it changed. I was in very good form. I had with Smackdown! against Kurt fish or Eddie Guerrero some my best Matches. Christian went to RAW. When the Un-Americans was then separated, did he get his chance to show, what he can do alone and which he today the?unerfreulichste? Superstar in the WWE Roster is.
BSWW.de: Into many interviews you come on your mother to speak. Which role plays your mother in your life and for your career?
Edge: I would no be sitting here today without her. Apart from the well-known reasons it was always a part of my career. If you want to become an actor, then say many people, that are a dream, which will never happen. The same is it with Wrestling. I buildup and said with eight years: I want to become a Wrestler. Up to the age of 17 years. Everyone said, that is not not realistic, why you do not look for you a correct job and goes to the school? My mother always said to me, goes to the Wrestling, if it is that, which you want to do. That was a key to have the positive influence behind me. To do and state it that I can do it also. If it had gone with me to the Wrestling and had it rejected, were that the last straw been and had itself struck down. It was the key and it gave me confidence that I can create it.
BSWW.de: How did the title of Edges become book concerning its career reads?
Edge: Edgeucation by Adam Copeland. I grew up in this Business. It did not only help me to learn for the Business but for the life. You come into contact with many different humans. I feel that it me?edgeucated? has and it is beautiful that it fits my ring name.
BSWW.de: Thank you for the discussion and we hope to be able to see you soon again in Germany and then in the ring.
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