By Chris Walters on April 19, 2004 at 4:38 PM EST

The following is from WWE.com:

EDMONTON, Alberta - April 18, 2004 - After a 14-month absence, Edge returned to action at the Rexall Place. And true to form, he picked up right where he left off by polishing of Kane.

"I'm exhausted," said Edge just after his performance tonight. "You can be in shape, but there's nothing that substitutes for being in ring shape. I knew it was going to be that way, so it wasn't too much of a shock, but a couple of minutes in, I was like, 'Wow, this is gone be tough. Not only am I going to have to fight Kane after not having been in the ring for over a year, but I'm going to have to do it with a broken hand.'"

Edge broke his hand at Ohio Valley Wrestling - WWE's developmental territory in Louisville, Ky. -- while training for his return, after one of his competitors landed on it squarely and cleanly broke his metacarpal.

"The doctor advised me not to wrestle," exclaims Edge. "He said, 'If it were me, I wouldn't,' and I said, 'Well, you're not.' So it's pretty tender, and with the broken hand, I can't grip, which limits pretty much all of my offense. It pretty much impacted everything I did. When I did a clothesline off the second rope, I tucked my hands in and the rest of my body took the brunt of it. Also, any time I got slammed down, I couldn't use my hand, so my neck took most of the abuse.

"I'll just have to learn how to work around it, because I'm going to have to keep this cast on for four more weeks. They said the next step, if it gets any worse, is pins and plates, and I have enough pins and plates in me already."

Edge also realized how tough it was going to be following up the classic Randy Orton/ Cactus Jack match that occurred before his battle.

"I knew that was going to be hard, especially when there were so many instruments and tools used," he said. "It's tough to follow that performance with a conventional match. I think that people encountered the same thing when they followed our TLC matches a few years ago. So that was one obstacle to overcome, but I think the fans were into it."

Being that Edmonton is located in his native Canada, Edge knew that the reaction he received was going to be off the charts.

"It was great," Edge said. "I don't care if it's a Canadian crowd, American crowd, Scandinavian crowd, or Portuguese crowd. It doesn't matter. Any time they react like that, it's amazing, but I knew my Canadians would come through for me."

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