When WWE Hall of Famer Edge originally retired in 2011, he honestly thought his neck injuries meant he would never wrestle again. Now at age 49 and approaching the end of his current WWE contract, he’s facing the possibility — though not certainty — that he might soon retire for good.
That was the gist of Edge’s comments to ET Canada ahead of his match this Friday on SmackDown against Sheamus (who he has never wrestled) in Toronto. Though there’s a school of thought that perhaps Sheamus will make a heel turn and set something bigger up between them, Edge said that this match will be the last one on his current deal.
Add in the facts that Toronto is essentially his hometown and that WWE has been celebrating 25 years of Edge and it does feel like it could be the proper setting for a swan song.
Will this be the last time we see him in a WWE ring? Even he’s not sure, though he admits it’s a possibility (h/t Fightful for the transcription).
Here’s what I can honestly say, and this isn’t the answer everyone wants. I truly don’t know. I really really, with 100% truth can say I don’t know. That’s strange for me, but I don’t. I really don’t. I’ve put some thought into it, but not a lot. This is the last match on my current contract. I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. I probably won’t know until I get to the locker room that night and decompress, let all the anxiety and tension that I never used to have before I performed, I have now. That’s strange for me and makes it that much harder to do this. I’m going to be 50 in October. It’s not easy anymore. Before, what I used to take for granted to be able to do, now, there is a process and a fallout. There’s a lot. It’s the dream gig, but it’s getting really hard.
Edge has performed at a pace just slightly under once a month in 2023, starting with the Royal Rumble match in January and most recently defeating Grayson Waller on SmackDown in early July. If this is actually it for him, he’ll go down as the most decorated WWE wrestler of all time, with a total of 31 major championships to his name.