WWE Hall Of Famer Edge was recently interviewed by “Inside The Ropes” to talk about several professional wrestling topics. “The Rated-R Superstar” offered his thoughts on if there can still be clear-cut heels and babyfaces in professional wrestling anymore, and if nostalgia acts have their place in wrestling today.
Here are the highlights:
Can there still be clear-cut heels and babyfaces:
I think there’s shades of gray but that’s always been the case. People cheered Roddy Piper too. They cheered Macho Man too. It just might not have been as pervelent. I think a guy today, a guy like The Miz, proves it can be done. And once he starts to feel the audience maybe get on board with him, he does something to make sure they hop off that ship pretty damn quick.
So it’s possible. To me, the key is 100 percent commitment to want to be. And that can be a difficult thing sometimes because you hear those cheers and it can be addictive, right? It’s truly one of those things, in order to make it work, you just have to go full in.
If nostalgia has its place in professional wrestling today:
I’ve never had a problem with it, personally. I’ve always looked at it, if I’m a performer and you have these acts coming back – the way I try to look at it was, if they bring more eyeballs and if I worked my tail off to get on that show, more eyeballs are now going to see my performance. That’s how I tried to look at it. It felt like incentive when I’d see Hogan coming back at WrestleMania 17. And Hall and Nash and all of that. I looked at it as, I’m going to work my butt off to get on that show no matter what.
And, hopefully, that can eventually segway into me always being on the show kind of thing. I don’t know, I just never looked at it as a negative. I looked at it as incentive. For instance, you got a guy like The Rock and he comes back and wrestles Cena. To me, he doesn’t have to come back and wrestle. He’s doing it to try and get back to the business. He’s the highest-paid actor in the world. Just stop and think about that for a second. And yet, he’s still getting in there and wrestling. And to me, the more people that come over with him, to watch, the more they’ll be exposed to – I don’t know, pick a name. That’s how I tried to look at it.
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