Edge DEVASTATED Over Vince McMahon's Toughest Ever Phone Call

Then the end of your career comes and you have said publicly that it was sooner than you wanted. You came out on Raw 8 days after WrestleMania and Atlanta in 2011 and you have to retire, can you talk a little about that? finding out that you have to retire and how do you process that when you're so close to the end but they're kind of taking the end away from you, yeah, I mean, I could look at it that way or I could look at it Well, okay, so my last match was defending the Championship. World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania.

The worst ways to do it and that's how I had to look at it because when something is taking away your power, you know when there is no other option in the matter. It makes it easier. I don't have to and didn't have to sit there and debate whether this is the last game. Can I have more games if they throw me this amount of money? Will I come back for one more game that is out of the cards? and when you realize that's the case, you quickly have to accept it and try to move on and move on with your life and that doesn't mean you give up and don't enjoy the industry or any of those things anymore. things or not to do a night like this and realize

ever

ything the wrestling business has given you, that's not the case, but you have to have some kind of healthy forward movement, otherwise you won't be in a very good place emotionally. um now when I found out I was, I had just moved into a new house and I was sitting on my porch and I got a

call

and it's Vince and he says, uh, this is the hardest

phone

call

I've

ever

had to make, but you do. retiring wasn't that shocking to me because of all those obstacles that they've had, you know, I said I took those eight years that after coming back from a double merger, the fact that I came from a double merger, I mean everything from that double merger going forward, it's just the icing on the cake because people don't really come back from double mergers.

I think Austin came back for a year, a year and a half, you know, he was still around. taking tombstones and those Fus and those chokeholds and everything for eight more years, so deep down I knew that every time he took a hit he was shortening it. It wasn't a huge shock to me that it was all over. I would have liked to have finished the year of my contract. I wish he had, you know, Jay, who's an idiot. We will never forget him. He is an idiot. He cost me the world championship against Del Rio and eventually you know my plan.

It was that after costing me the championship, he eventually takes me to a retirement match at WrestleMania where he retires me. I would have loved to, it just wasn't in the cards and you have to accept that and when you walk away, the acting will relapse. your lap and then from there you know, I think about my life since my retirement, I've had two beautiful girls, you know, uh, sketch, comedy, wrestling show, you have a glamorous wife, I remember you best, don't worry, uh . you know, a podcast, you know, I can be a Viking, these are all amazing things and it all happened in eight years, it really feels like a whole new life, but I also know that the reason I can have that life is because of everything.

What happened in my wrestling life, so it's all good.