WWE Byte This Review
January 19, 2005
Host: Marc Loyd
Guests: Edge and Shawn Michaels
Credit for Transcription: PWInsider.com
They show footage of Edge vs. Rhyno from two weeks ago.
Back from the break, Edge joins the show
Pleasantries are exchanged. Lloyd says he is gonna start with some questions from Edge’s fans, to which he asks if he still has some. Lloyd says they don’t like him too much either. Edge says the feelings mutual.
Lloyd asks him after all he’s been through the last couple of months, if this is his destiny to win the Rumble and go on to headline Mania. Edge says this has been going on for longer than two months. Its started after he broke his neck. They frustration started to build then, because he felt he was on the cusp of something back then. In all honesty, whatever happened to Chris Benoit might have happened to him and he was on the sidelines watching all that so that was pretty frustrating to him. And then he came back and the fans turned on him, according to him. He remembers Vengeance where the fans were cheering Orton. He remembers going to Toronto and getting booed in his hometown. So the chip on his shoulder is all because of that. Destiny has always been in his hands. It’s just a matter of him taking that last step. Lloyd asks him if he can do it. Edge asks him if he doubts him, calling him a “chumpstain” He said he could hop on a plane pretty quick and beat him up. Lloyd said he does not doubt his talent, but he will be in two matches that night. That’s tough for any superstar. Edge says that’s true, but he isn’t just any superstar. He’s one tough Bastard. He says as a kid, he didn’t realize he would be wrestling Shawn Michaels and be in the rumble on the same night. But he looks at this as an opportunity he never had and is gonna enjoy every minute of it.
Lloyd brings up how Taboo Tuesday was not in his hands and he took out his frustration on Shawn Michaels. Someone via email wanted to know why he did that. He did it because Shawn knew, as well as everyone else, that with a bum knee he wasn’t going to walk out with the title. It was time for something new. It was time for a change. Time to see someone else face Triple H. How many times can you see HBK and Triple H fighting for the title? Same with Benoit. For that matter, how many times can you see Randy Orton fighting for the title? He thinks it’s time for an infusion of new blood, and he’d like to think while he has been around for a while, he is still new blood cause he never got those opportunities.
Lloyd brings up HBK calling Edge a whiner. Edge says he can say all he wants. One thing he wont do is not respect Shawn Michaels. He says he’s done everything and is one of the best ever. He cant say best ever because that’s too subjective. But he would be in his top 3 of who he looked up in the business growing up. At the same time, he can look at someone saying Shawn Michaels is done, and his got no room to talk.
What were his thoughts on The Elimination Chamber? Edge said it was a brutal match. He has been involved in a lot of brutal matches, but this one was different. He walked into the arena that day, and they had the cage on the floor, and he had to stop for a second, and take that whole thing in. You don’t get a proper perspective for it and what it can do until you are in it. It doesn’t translate for the fans how brutal it is, how much the chain link and grate around the ring doesn’t give, and how much it hurts. He says its one of those matches, where you feel for it a little bit afterwards. You don’t get out of there feeling too great. Lloyd asks how his body feels the day after. Edge said his body felt like a flame broil burger because he had the marks across his back from the grating. You are gonna feel a knot in a neck and wonder where that came from. He mentioned Jericho gave him a dropkick into the steel grating. He says you don’t feel it during the match because of the adrenaline. But you will be aching for the next few days from things you didn’t expect.
They go to the phones...
Caller…. Read the book and wondered what it was like to be in the program with one of his Big 3. It feels cool. He feels blessed to have rubbed shoulders with the Big 3. In case you didn’t read the book, the Big 3 are Hogan, Bret Hart and HBK in no particular order. Those are the guys who hooked him into this. Hulk was the initial guy, but when he started to see matches and understand them, he gravitated to Shawn and Bret. He got to team with Hogan, Bret opened the door for him in WWE, and now he gets to wrestle Shawn. It’s cool, because he didn’t know if they would be around by the time he got to their level.
Talking about guys he idolized, Did Edge ever think there would be guys coming in the business now that would idolize him? Edge said he never thought about that. He knew about what he had to do, and where he had to go. He never thought about action figures, or video games, or someone watching his tapes and matches and patterning their style after him. He said it was pretty cool that guys would look up to him. He said beside the three he named, he also looked up to Henning and Windham and putting some of their stuff with his own. He said he doesn’t know if anyone copies his style, but if they do thanks.
Lloyd said its cool that he wrote a book and people go out and buy it. That’s gotta be a good feeling. He said he had some reservations. He’s been in the business for 14 years, 8 with the WWE. He knew there would be some people who would say what has he got to say? There will be more to tell, mentioning that he still has to win the world title. But it was something he wanted to do, and Mick Foley knocked down the doors to show that a wrestler can write a book. Its cool to see ‘Adam Copeland’ on a spine of a book. He’s proud of that. He’s proud of the way the book turned out, besides the typos that got screwed up in editing. (Talk about a big time typo. I heard he mentioned in his book that Billy Red Lyons, an old-time Canadian wrestler, passed away. Lyons is still alive. Oops.) He’s happy about the book and its something he can look back at and say “yeah, I did that.” Lloyd says when he retires, which wont be for a long time, he can write another book.
Before he leaves, Lloyd wants to get Edge’s thoughts on Steve Austin returning. He thought that was cool. He didn’t know about it. He saw the bit for it on Monday during RAW, but didn’t know what it was about. (Again Edge, three words for you…) He always liked Steve. He was one of those guys who gave Christian and him advice in the old E&C days and was a guy they felt they could go to, because there are no false hairs there with Austin. What you see is what you get. He’ll shoot up straight with you. He’s glad for Austin, because he knows physically, he’s been through the ringer. Its nice to know he can have that outlet.
Lloyd asks Edge if he’d like to be in a movie. Edge says he had his bit in the Highlander and he guess it was fun. He said if it fell in his lap, he would try it, but he would go look for it and audition on his days off. His days off are few and far between. He prefers sitting on his couch watching King of Queens and Simpsons. Lloyd says “and the Bottom Line as well.” Edge says “of course. I am not at home on that day.” Who is, anyways? He said if it fell in his lap, he would but wrestling is his thing, as he said in the book. He said he had opportunities come his way which he had to turn down because he was told he’d have to give up wrestling.
Lloyd wishes Edge luck at Royal Rumble and Edge leaves the show.