NYChase718
Veteran
HHH eventually met edge and beat him at great american bash 2008
Even got his win back over cena from 2 years earlier
Explain to someone who stopped watching after the attitude era how Edge became an 11 time champion
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HHH eventually met edge and beat him at great american bash 2008
Even got his win back over cena from 2 years earlier
He might never have won the title tbh. Even with the brand split, it took 3 years after he came back from his neck surgery of kind of floundering, especially as a heel. I mean, they were trying, giving him feuds with HBK, putting him in multi man title matches, but he wasn't really gaining any traction until the Matt/Lita thing blew up online and spread out to TV.
But you imagine a world where there wasn't a brand split, Austin/Rock/Hogan/Nash/HBK/HHH/Brock/Taker/Jericho were all floating up at the top of the cards, Edge wouldn't have cracked that group for YEARS if ever. The brand split + Austin/Rock/Nash/Brock/Hogan leaving, Jericho being regularly diminished for whatever reasons, Taker being mostly contained to his shytty universe by that point, HBK not wanting the title.....what's most impressive imo is that he got the title and didn't get put in the ground by HHH.
TheAlbionist
All Star
Them when Matt Hardy cut that promo
ADAM....YOU b*stard!!! AND LITA.....YOU WHOREEEEE!!!!! *dead*
Ill-Yaz
FA Cup winning fan
He was better than Cena so
Lol at this bullshyt
supertrekker
Superstar
Loyalty doesn't put asses in the seats or sell merchandise. That's what wrong with wrestling.
Tres Leches
Empire Business
to be fair he was a little more tolerable than HHH and less boring than randy 
bigdaddy88
The King Of Power
My favorite wrestler but him and randy have wayyyy too many reigns....of course having a gimmick like the ultimate opportunist works for short reigns 
This is the the dude that walked in wwe champ at The EC ,loses beats up some jobber and leaves World Heavyweight champ the same night
He was a top heel for a while and held smackdown down for a long time
This is the the dude that walked in wwe champ at The EC ,loses beats up some jobber and leaves World Heavyweight champ the same night
He was a top heel for a while and held smackdown down for a long time
Lumping Edge and Jeff together isn't right at all. Jeff was stupidly over with the live crowd and moving merch at Cena levels, he was overdue a run but it's understandable why they hesitated with him because of all the external issues he brought with him. Plus Jeff was gone for 3 years and worked for TNA those weren't golden handshake runs. Edge was never that over by himself and they stayed giving him heaters from Lita to Vickie and that goofy stable of his. Fans were
towards Edge on his own more often than not, he got the loyalty reward not Jeff.
Negged for hating on the rated r superstar
LiveFromLondon
Superstar
He got some stat padding reigns because of a Money in the Bank contract where they thought Mr. Kennedy was going to be injured longer than he really was, RVD getting caught with weed so they had to take the belt off him, and silly stipulations like "if Edge uses the spear which is banned, he loses the title to Dolph Ziggler" then win the title back the same week in a rematch or "Undertaker is stripped of the title if he uses the Hell's Gate".
papertrail08
Pro
Edge had one title reign where he pretty much only won the title JUST to drop it to Jeff at the next PPV because Triple H wouldn't do it.