Edge on Post-Retirement Life, His Podcast Show, Bryan Wanting to Wrestle

ESPN held a recent interview with Edge discussing a variety of topics including his life after wrestling, starting a podcast show with Christian, and thoughts on Daniel Bryan wanting to wrestle again.

On the topic of his life after retiring from wrestling in 2011, Edge stated he never had any real plans on what to do with his life after his career was over. He mentioned working on the television series Haven was something he did just for fun and had no real goals as an actor.

“I had no aspirations after wrestling. I truly just assumed I would retire, grow a big beard, sit on my deck and figure out what was next. If it was nothing, I was OK with that. I pretty much immediately did ‘Haven,’ but still had no kind of false aspirations that this was something that I’d be good at, or would want to do outside of just a couple episodes. It’d be fun, and that will be that.”

On the topic of starting a podcast show with Christian, Edge stated it was Christian who came up with the idea to do the podcast and pitched their long friendship as being something unique for the show to draw in listeners.

“It was one of those deals where Christian had approached me, because the company had approached him.I said I didn’t know — there’s like a thousand podcasts out there, what can we do that’s different? How do we make ours different than the other hundred out there? It’s different because it’s us. Because of our banter and our chemistry, and the fact that we’ve been best friends for 33 years. You can’t manufacture that. I think you can tell from listening to us that we’re just two idiots having a good time, shooting the breeze like we would anyway, just more wrestling centric.”

On the topic of Daniel Bryan wanting to resume his in-ring wrestling career, Edge stated he was surprised at how candid Bryan was during his podcast appearance on wanting to wrestle again and his past history with concussions.

“We’ve just ended up talking, and what has come out has been what you’ve heard. I think the only instance so far where I was surprised with how candid he was, was Bryan talking about the concussions. And a lot of that I didn’t even know, so it was really eye-opening and interesting to see all the steps that he’s taken with that.