The Edge Bio
Name : Adam Joseph Copeland
Ring Name : Edge
Birth Date : 30 Oct 1974
Birth Place : Ontario, Canada
Adam Copeland, some time ago known as WWE Superstar Edge, is a performing artist and resigned proficient wrestler, who is right now featuring as one of the leads in the fifth period of the mainstream TV arrangement HAVEN for Syfy. Canadian conceived, Copeland's life in wrestling crossed two decades, and through his long and embellished profession as "Edge", Copeland entertained a great many fans universally while winning 31 titles generally speaking in WWE - the most by any wrestler ever - including 11 world heavyweight titles. Copeland turned into the most youthful wrestler ever accepted into the WWE Hall of Fame in March 2012. As an on-screen character, Copeland showed up in a portion of the famous film establishment Highlander: Endgame, furthermore featured in the WWE created, Bending the Rules inverse Jamie Kennedy. Copeland's TV appearances incorporate a repeating visitor circular segment on Sanctuary, and various appearances as Edge in shows, for example, Clash Time, the Weakest connection, Mind of Mencia, Deal Or No Deal, and MADtv to give some examples. Copeland's personal history, Adam Copeland on Edge, was a New York Times blockbuster, and he is at present during the time spent written work a second book. Copeland has an enormous and committed global fan base, with a twitter taking after of more than 750K, and developing day by day. He lives in the mountains of Asheville, NC, where he invests his energy climbing, biking, snuggling with his family.
Full Bio
Adam Joseph Copeland (conceived October 30, 1973) is a Canadian performing artist and resigned proficient wrestler. He is best known for his time with the American expert wrestling advancement WWE, where he performed under the ring name Edge.
Copeland was prepared by expert wrestlers Sweet Daddy Siki and Ron Hutchinson. All through the 1990s, he wrestled in different U.S. free advancements. Amid his time in these advancements, he contended in singles and label group rivalry, the last with long-term companion Christian. In 1997, Copeland marked a formative manage the WWF and started vieing for the organization soon thereafter; he made his broadcast make a big appearance the next June under the ring name Edge. In July 1999, he won the WWF Intercontinental Championship at a house show in Toronto, making it his first title rule with the organization. He and Christian, charged as siblings and later youth companions in WWF/WWE storylines, went ahead to win the WWF Tag Team Championship on seven unique events. Amid this time, they picked up reputation in the label group division, halfway because of their interest in Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches.
Edge won 31 titles in WWE by and large, including 11 big showdowns (the WWE Championship four times and the World Heavyweight Championship a record seven times), five Intercontinental Championships, one United States Championship, and 14 world label group titles (a record 12 World Tag Team Championships and two WWE Tag Team Championships), along these lines making him the fourteenth Triple Crown and seventh Grand Slam Champion. He won the 2001 King of the Ring competition, was the principal Money in the Bank step match victor in 2005, and won the Royal Rumble match in 2010, making him the main wrestler in history to accomplish every one of the three of those accomplishments. He featured various pay-per-view occasions for WWE, including WrestleMania XXIV, and was drafted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Christian in 2012. Edge is a standout amongst the most designed proficient wrestlers ever, having won 31 titles while wrestling for WWE.
Beside expert wrestling, Copeland showed up in the dream film Highlander: Endgame and WWE Studios' Bending the Rules. He has shown up on TV programs, for example, Weakest Link, Mind of Mencia, Deal or No Deal, MADtv and The Flash. He showed up on the SyFy arrangement Haven as a repeating character Dwight Hendrickson.
In March 2016, Copeland was a specialist on Canada Reads protecting the novel Minister Without Portfolio by Michael Winter. Clergyman Without Portfolio was the principal book dispensed with.
Early life
Copeland was conceived in Orangeville, Ontario, the child of Judy Copeland, a solitary guardian who maintained two sources of income to bolster her son. right up 'til the present time, he has never met his dad or seen a photo of him. He got to be occupied with expert wrestling at a youthful age; his most loved wrestlers included Mr. Impeccable, Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Ricky Steamboat, Shawn Michaels, and Bret Hart. When he was 17, he won an exposition challenge with his nearby rec center, and his prize was free wrestling preparing with Sweet Daddy Siki and Ron Hutchinson in Toronto. He set his wrestling goals aside to pay the bills. He held various occupations and after that went to Humber College, where he graduated with a degree in radio broadcasting.
Proficient wrestling career
Amid Copeland's preparation, he prepared one weekday and all weekend. The school's work on ring was a 12-by-14-foot boxing ring with a harder mat than that of a run of the mill wrestling ring. The roof above it was low, with uncovered channels, keeping top-rope moves from being performed. Copeland later acknowledged this environment for compelling him to bore and enhance his specialized mat-based wrestling. His cohorts included Johnny Swinger, Joe E. Legend, and Rob Etcheverria (who later got to be striking for preparing wrestlers, for example, Gail Kim, Angelina Love, and Taylor Wilde).
All through the 1990s, Copeland wrestled on the autonomous circuit in Ontario and the Great Lakes district of the United States under the ring name Sexton Hardcastle. He turned into a part of the label group Sex and Violence with Joe E. Legend. In the mid-1990s, he wrestled as Adam Impact for Tony Condello's Winnipeg advancement. In 1997, Sex and Violence turned out to be a piece of a bigger stable called Thug Life, joining Christian Cage (Copeland's youth companion), Zakk Wyld, Bill Skullion, and Rhino Richards. During his free vocation, he won the MWCW Tag Team Championship twice with Legend and the ICW Street Fight Tag Team Championship twice (once each with Legend and Cage).
The pair of Hardcastle and Cage were known as Hard Impact before changing their name to The Suicide Blondes. They likewise worked in Japan under the name The Canadian Rockers. Copeland additionally wrestled quickly as Damon Striker against Kevin Sullivan and Meng on isolated scenes of WCW Pro. In the late spring of 1995, he worked a show in Ajax, Ontario, where Bret Hart's business supervisor, Carl De Marco, was viewing. Awed, he proposed Copeland send a tryout tape to the WWF. Copeland did not hear once more from WWF, but rather some time later, De Marco was delegated President of WWF Canada and told Copeland that he'd put in a decent word. On May 10, 1996, Copeland (as Sexton Hardcastle) supplanted Bob Holly's rival without prior warning the opening match of a WWF house show in Hamilton, Ontario.
After a Grand Prix Wrestling visit in the mid year of 1997, De Marco asked Copeland to go to Calgary, where Hart was casually preparing wrestlers while recouping from knee surgery. He spent his visit income on a plane ticket, and arrived with no cash or place to remain. He called Johnny Smith, whom he'd met twice, and Smith consented to give him nourishment and haven. Smith likewise drove Copeland to and from the exercise center and Hart's home, where he prepared nearby Ken Shamrock, Test, Mark Henry, and Kurrgan. Copeland came back to the Maritimes for another Grand Prix visit before backpedaling to Hart's home, carrying Christian with him. After this camp, Hart was sufficiently awed to put in a decent word for both men at the WWF.
In 1996, Copeland at first made $210 every week while working for WWF without an official contract. The organization likewise paid for his remarkable school obligation, which was around $40,000. Copeland got a formative contract with the WWF in 1997. On Remembrance Day 1997 in Cornwall, Ontario, he (under his genuine name) confronted Christian Cage at a Shotgun taping, a match included on WWE Home Video's 2008 review, Edge: A Decade of Decadence. After finishing his preparation, Copeland made his WWF TV debut on the June 22, 1998 scene of Raw as Edge, a maverick character who entered the field through the group for his matches. This had been gone before by weeks of vignettes for the character, which included him capriciously strolling around the city avenues and attacking blameless pedestrians.
Edge's initially broadcast match was against Jose Estrada, Jr., which finished rashly by countout when Edge played out a somersault senton from the ring to the outside, authentically harming Estrada's neck. In his first pay-per-view match at SummerSlam in August, he served as Sable's riddle label group accomplice against Jacqueline and Marc Mero, and bodyslammed Sable onto Mero in a sticking position to get the win. At Breakdown: In Your House, Edge confronted Owen Hart in a losing exertion. On October 11, 1998's version of Sunday Night Heat, Edge vanquished Vader in singles rivalry and at WWF Capital Carnage, Edge confronted Tiger Ali Singh in a losing exertion.
Edge was then set in a quarrel against the vampire wrestler Gangrel. Amid the fight, Gangrel presented Christian, Edge's storyline sibling, as his ally. Eventually, Gangrel and Christian persuaded Edge to go along with them, and them three framed a union known as The Brood. At Rock Bottom: In Your House, The Brood vanquished The J.O.B. Squad in a six-man label group match. At the Royal Rumble, Edge contended in the 30-man Royal Rumble coordinate and was dispensed with by Road Dogg. The Brood was later stole and changed over into The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness. In May 1999, the Brood split far from the Ministry after Christian was assaulted by Ken Shamrock and compelled to uncover the area of the hostage Stephanie McMahon. The Undertaker had Christian rebuffed for his trespass, however Edge and Gangrel remained by him and sold out The Undertaker, prompting a brief fight with the Ministry. At Backlash: In Your House, the Brood confronted Ministry individuals Bradshaw, Faarooq, and Mideon in a losing exertion. At King of the Ring, The Hardy Boyz vanquished Edge and Christian in a match to decide the main contender to the WWF Tag Team Championship, after their first match on Sunday Night Heat finished in a no-challenge.
Edge caught his first singles title, the WWF Intercontinental Championship, on July 22, 1999, crushing Jeff Jarrett at a house show in Toronto, Ontario. He lost the title the following night to Jarrett at Fully Loaded. At SummerSlam, Edge and Christian contended in a Tag group turmoil match where they dispensed with 3 groups: The New Brood (Matt and Jeff), Mideon and Viscera and Droz and Prince Albert before getting killed from the match by The Acolytes. At Unforgiven, Edge and Christian confronted The New Age Outlaws for the WWF Tag Team Championship however neglected to win the titles.
Later in the year, he was set in a storyline edge with The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff). Gangrel soon sold out both Edge and Christian and shaped The New Brood with their foes, The Hardy Boyz. They quarreled with the Hardy Boyz, as they went ahead to contend in a stepping stool match at No Mercy in October for the "administrative administrations" of Terri Runnels and $100,000, which the Hardy Boyz won. At Survivor Series, Edge and Christian and The Hardy Boyz confronted Too Cool and The Hollys in a four-on-four Survivor Series disposal match where they lost. At Armageddon, Edge and Christian contended in a 8-group fight imperial which was won by The Acolytes. At Royal Rumble, Edge contended in the Royal Rumble match where he was killed by Al Snow and Val Venis. At No Way Out, Edge and Christian crushed The Hardy Boyz in a label group match to decide the main contenders to the WWF Tag Team Championship. At WrestleMania 2000 on April 2, Edge and Christian vanquished the Hardy Boyz and the Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von) to win the WWF Tag Team Championship in a Triangle Ladder match, which at last prompted the formation of the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match (TLC).
Tailing this triumph, Edge and Christian discovered accomplishment as a wretched twosome, winning the WWF Tag Team Title six more times (for a sum of seven). During this time, their trademark turned into the "five second stance" where they played out a posture in the ring for five seconds "for the advantage of those with blaze photography" to ridicule, affront, or generally divert the fans. At Backlash, Edge and Christian crushed D-Generation (X-Pac and Road Dogg) to hold the titles. At Judgment Day, Edge, Christian and Kurt Angle lost a six-man label group match to Rikishi and Too Cool. Before long, they lost the label titles to Too Cool yet won them in a Four corners disposal match at King of the Ring. At Fully Loaded, they shielded the titles against The Acolytes Protection Agency (Faarooq and Bradshaw) where they got excluded however held the titles. In the wake of holding the titles at SummerSlam, at Unforgiven, Edge and Christian safeguarded the titles against The Hardy Boyz in a Steel Cage match where they lost the titles and were not permitted another title shot. At No Mercy, Edge and Christian under, veiled as Los Conquistadores, crushed The Hardys for the titles. The following night on Raw, the Hardy Boyz dressed as the Los Conquistadores and vanquished Edge in an impairment match after Christian was taken out backstage to recover the WWF Tag Team Championship.
At Survivor Series, Edge and Christian collaborated with Right to Censor's Bull Buchanan and The Godfather in a four-on-four Survivor Series disposal match, where they lost to The Dudley's and The Hardy's, They recaptured the label titles at Armageddon in a Fatal Four-Way coordinate, yet lost them 8 days after the fact to The Rock and The Undertaker. They won them back days after the fact on Smackdown! on account of uncommon visitor arbitrator Kurt Angle. Amid Edge and Christian's keep running as a label group, they additionally contended as a group in the initial three TLC matches, winning the initial two over The Dudley Boyz and The Hardy Boyz, at SummerSlam in 2000 and after that again at WrestleMania X-Seven. At the 2001 Royal Rumble, Edge and Christian were vanquished by the Dudley Boyz and lost the World Tag Team title. They unsuccessfully endeavored to recover the label group title at No Way Out against the Dudley Boyz and The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane), yet they succeeded at WrestleMania X-Seven against the Dudley Boyz and The Hardyz in the second TLC match. At Judgment Day, Edge and Christian contended in a Tag Team Turmoil match which was won by Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit. Days after the fact on the May 24, 2001 Smackdown, Edge and Christian contended in a Fatal 4-Way Tag Team TLC Match for the WWF Tag Team Championship where Benoit and Jericho held the titles.
Edge went ahead to cement himself as a rising singles contender by winning the King of the Ring competition in 2001 and turning into a fan most loved again by favoring the WWF amid the Invasion storyline. Christian sold out Edge in a matter of seconds afterward, and the two quarreled over Edge's Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam that he later lost to Christian at Unforgiven, however Edge later caught the title. Following this, Edge lost the Intercontinental title to Test and quickly a short time later won the WCW United States Championship from Kurt Angle. On November 3 at Rebellion, Edge vanquished Christian in a Steel confine match to hold the Intercontinental Championship, then Edge crushed Test at Survivor Series to bind together the Intercontinental Championship with the U.S. Championship.
From that point, Edge was put in a quarrel with William Regal for the Intercontinental Championship. Edge initially crushed Regal at Vengeance to hold the title: be that as it may, he would miss the mark in the new year, losing the title to Regal at Royal Rumble 2002 and after that missing the mark in his rematch against Regal at No Way Out in a Brass Knuckles on a Pole match.[50] On the March 3 release of Sunday Night Heat, Edge vanquished Mr. Impeccable, and at WrestleMania X8, Edge wound up in a match with Booker T that was the consequence of Edge prevailing over Booker for an imaginary Japanese cleanser endorsement. Shortly subsequent to overcoming Booker T at WrestleMania, Edge was drafted to the SmackDown! brand in the primary WWF Draft Lottery.
After touching base there, he started a fight with Kurt Angle. At Backlash, Edge crushed Angle and later finished in Edge shaving Angle's head taking after a hair versus hair match at Judgment Day in May. On the May 30 scene of SmackDown!, Edge vanquished Angle in a Steel Cage match to end the fight however amid the match Edge skewered Angle from the top rope. Simultaneously, Edge harmed his arm and would be constrained out of activity for a month. After two months, he would wind up winning the World Tag Team Championship nearby Hollywood Hulk Hogan on July 4, 2002. Edge and Hogan lost the titles at Vengeance to Lance Storm and Christian, and at SummerSlam, Edge crushed Eddie Guerrero then lost to Guerrero at Unforgiven. They met one last time days after the fact on SmackDown! in a No Disqualification match where Edge won, finishing the fight.
He then framed a label group with Rey Mysterio, and the two took an interest in a competition for the recently made and SmackDown!- select WWE Tag Team Championship. They lost to Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit in the finals of the competition at No Mercy; the match was voted Match of the Year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. After they fizzled in winning the title, Mysterio and Edge vanquished Los Guerreros in a main contender's match on the October 24 scene of SmackDown! to gain a title shot. At the Rebellion pay-per-view, Edge confronted Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman in a Handicap match for the WWE Championship where Lesnar held the title after Lesnar stuck Edge. On the November 7 scene of SmackDown!, they vanquished Angle and Benoit in a two out of three falls match to win their first Tag Team Championship. They soon lost the label titles to Los Guerreros in a Triple Threat Elimination coordinate that likewise included previous champions Angle and Benoit at Survivor Series. After losing the title, Edge and Mysterio went their different approaches to concentrate on their singles vocations.
Edge contended in the 30-man Royal Rumble match on January 19, 2003, where he had three disposals before getting dispensed with by Chris Jericho. Edge then collaborated with Chris Benoit, confronting Team Angle (Kurt Angle, Charlie Haas, and Shelton Benjamin) in a progression of singles and label group matches. Before No Way Out, Edge endured a honest to goodness neck harm, rendering him not able to contend in his booked match. At the occasion on February 23, Edge was composed off TV through a backstage assault. He then experienced surgery with Dr. Lloyd Youngblood and was sidelined for over a year.
Edge was set on the Raw brand in the 2004 WWE draft lottery after WrestleMania XX and came back to in-ring activity soon after the occasion. At Backlash, Edge vanquished Kane, and on the April 19, 2004 scene of Raw, he and Chris Benoit won the World Tag Team Championship. They proceeded with a nearby association even in the wake of losing the title; at Bad Blood, Edge and Benoit crushed La Résistance in a Tag group match for the World Tag Team Championship by preclusion however didn't win the titles. The group disbanded when Edge won the Intercontinental Championship at Vengeance from Randy Orton, therefore turning into the one-hundredth Intercontinental Champion. At SummerSlam, Edge crushed Chris Jericho and Batista in a Triple risk match to hold the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Taking after a real crotch damage in a non-broadcast match, Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff stripped Edge of the Intercontinental title.
Upon his arrival, Edge started to demonstrate some despicable attributes fixating on his fixation for the World Heavyweight Championship. Edge, Chris Benoit, and Shawn Michaels got a title shot for Triple H's World Heavyweight Championship at Taboo Tuesday in October 2004. Michaels won the gathering of people vote to get the title shot, giving Edge and Benoit a label group title shot. Amid the match, Edge surrendered his accomplice (in spite of the fact that Benoit figured out how to win the title on his own) and rather meddled in the headliner, costing Michaels the championship. On the November 1 scene of Raw, Edge and Benoit lost the World Tag Team Championship with Edge forsaking Benoit again and sitting in a seat and watching the match. After the finish of the match, Edge assaulted Benoit, authoritatively turning heel surprisingly since 2001. Edge then received a definitely distinctive trick and clothing, and in addition another signature melody, turning into a vain and brash reprobate. At Survivor Series, Edge was a piece of Team Triple H alongside Triple H, Batista and Snitsky. They were crushed by Team Orton (Randy Orton, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Maven). Amid the match, Edge dispensed with both Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho before getting wiped out by Randy Orton. On a November scene of Raw, both Edge and Benoit contended in a main contender's fight regal, yet they disposed of each other at the same time at the finish of the match, bringing about a draw.[64] accordingly, Triple H was compelled to guard the title in a triple risk match. In the match, Benoit bolted the Crippler Crossface on Edge, who moved his weight putting Benoit's shoulders on the mat for a pin. This match additionally finished in a draw for Benoit and Edge, as Benoit made Edge submit in the meantime the ref tallied a pinfall for Edge. accordingly, the World Heavyweight title was abandoned the next week on Raw.
In January 2005, Edge contended in his first Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution for the empty World Heavyweight Championship. Shawn Michaels (going about as unique visitor ref) played out a superkick on Edge, in countering for an inadvertent lance by Edge, making Edge be the main eliminated. This prompted a match at the Royal Rumble later in the month, in which Edge crushed Michaels.
Along these lines, at WrestleMania 21, Edge won the principal ever Money in the Bank stepping stool match, picking up an agreement that gave him a shot at the World Heavyweight title inside one year. According to a podcast meeting with Chris Jericho, Copeland said that he didn't at first like the possibility of the step coordinate and even advised WWE administration not to incorporate him on the Wrestlemania 21 card by and large. Notwithstanding, he was talked into contending by alternate takes an interest like Jericho and Glenn Jacobs (Kane) who said the match could be a major achievement. At Backlash, Edge crushed Chris Benoit in a Last Man Standing match to end the quarrel.
A few weeks after, Edge was then combined with Lita, his genuine sweetheart at the time, in a point in which she sold out her storyline spouse Kane, by costing him a main contender match for the World Heavyweight Championship. Edge confronted significantly more disdain from fans because of this relationship, which kept going over a year. The following week, Edge got his World Heavyweight Championship match against Batista, which he lost. Edge began a quarrel with Kane prompting a few matches between them including one at Vengeance, when Edge lost to Kane. In the wake of exchanging a few triumphs on Raw, the fight finished in a stretcher match on the July 25 scene of Raw that Edge won, yet soon after, Kane played out a headstone piledriver on Lita.
On the July 11 scene of Raw, Edge's match with Kane was hindered when Matt Hardy showed up. Tough alluded to Edge as "Adam" and issued a risk to Lita as well. When Hardy was authoritatively taken back to Raw, he and Edge proceeded with their quarrel, including a match at SummerSlam where Edge vanquished Hardy, making Hardy have over the top blood loss. On the August 29 release of Raw, Edge and Hardy battled in a Street Fight, which brought about a no challenge when Hardy played out a symptom on Edge off the on-ramp into the sound speakers and other electrical equipment. They additionally battled in a Steel confine match at Unforgiven in September in which Hardy crushed Edge. The fight finished in a "Failure Leaves Raw Ladder Match" at WWE Homecoming on October 3, which Edge won. After the match, Hardy left the Raw brand to go to the SmackDown! brand.
Soon after the Homecoming triumph, Edge endured a genuine torn pectoralis real muscle that kept him retired for several months. During his time off, he featured in his own particular television show fragment on Raw entitled The Cutting Edge, naming himself the "Appraised R Superstar". Edge utilized his television show to begin a quarrel with Ric Flair taking after Flair's very much plugged capture regarding a street rage incident. Edge in the long run started utilizing The Cutting Edge as a soapbox to summary Flair until, following quite a while of open joke, Flair in the end showed up and assaulted Edge. Edge and Ric Flair formally met at the New Year's Revolution occasion in 2006 in a match for Flair's Intercontinental Championship, which brought about Flair holding, after Edge was precluded.
Despite the fact that Edge had lost his booked match at New Year's Revolution, that would not be his exclusive match that night. The headliner of the compensation per-view saw John Cena, the ruling WWE Champion, shield his title in an Elimination Chamber match. After a bleeding Cena won the match, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon uncovered that Edge was trading in for cold hard currency his Money in the Bank contract to confront Cena for the title quickly. After two lances, Edge immediately vanquished Cena to win the WWE Championship, denoting his first World title win.
The next night on Raw, Edge chose to commend his triumph by having "hot, unbridled sex" amidst the ring. He and Lita occupied with foreplay until they were hindered by Flair, who called Edge a disrespect and "that he was horrendous in the sack". Flair, nonetheless, wound up on the less than desirable end of a con-seat to on the broadcasters' table until Cena turned out to Flair's guide and played out a FU on Lita. The "Live Sex Celebration" portion earned Raw a 5.2 rating, the most noteworthy Raw rating in over a year, driving Edge to call himself the "most watched champion ever". On the January 16 version of Raw, Edge vanquished Ric Flair in a TLC Match to hold the WWE Championship. After three weeks, at the Royal Rumble, Edge lost the WWE Championship back to Cena.
He then lost an arrival match on an extraordinary Thursday scene of Raw held in February. Edge faulted uncommon visitor ref Mick Foley for his misfortune, asserting one-sided administering and assaulted him. At Saturday Night's Main Event, Foley got revenge on Edge by striking him with a con-seat to. They fought until WrestleMania 22 in April, where Edge crushed Foley in a Hardcore match by skewering him through a flaring table however endured severely charred areas.
Taking after his fight with Foley, Edge at the end of the day tested John Cena for the WWE Championship. Triple H was included in a quarrel with Cena at the time, bringing about a triple risk match at Backlash, where Cena stuck Triple H to hold the title. After Backlash, Edge proceeded with his fight with Mick Foley as they entered a triple danger in-your-face match. Foley, in any case, deceived his companion Tommy Dreamer with Edge's assistance. Edge and Foley then broadcasted that, as a result of their ruthless match at WrestleMania, they were the genuine Hardcore Champions. At June's compensation per-view occasion One Night Stand, Edge, Foley, and Lita crushed Dreamer, Terry Funk, and Beulah McGillicutty in an Extreme standards label group match.
Later in the occasion, Edge meddled in the WWE Championship match between John Cena and challenger Rob Van Dam, helping Van Dam win the title after he skewered Cena through a table. Edge, who won a main contender's match to face Van Dam for the WWE title, was not able win their match at Vengeance.
After two weeks on Raw, Edge stuck Van Dam in a triple danger match, in the wake of catching off-guard Cena with the title belt, to wind up WWE Champion for the second time. This point re-touched off Edge's quarrel with Cena, and he lost by exclusion at Saturday Night's Main Event to hold the title. Subsequently, a match was made for the August occasion SummerSlam with the stipulation that if Edge precluded himself, he would lose the title. At the occasion, Edge held the title by sticking Cena after he hit him in the back of the head with a couple of knuckle reinforcements when the official was not looking. The night after SummerSlam, Lita discarded Cena's modified "spinner" belt into the Long Island Sound at Edge's summon, who pronounced it the end of the "Cena period" in his life. Edge later uncovered the new "Evaluated R" form of the belt. Cena, in any case, meddled in Edge's match with a returning Jeff Hardy soon thereafter, pursuing him down to the outside of the building, ambushing him, and hurling Edge into the Long Island Sound. The next week, Cena made an arrangement with Edge: if Edge could vanquish him in a match for the WWE Championship, he would sign an agreement to move to SmackDown!. Edge acknowledged, on the condition the match be a TLC match held at September's Unforgiven occasion in Edge's main residence of Toronto. At the occasion, he lost the title after Cena played out the FU on him, sending Edge smashing through two stacked tables from a ladder. At one point amid the match, Cena secured a changed STFU while Edge was in a ladder, who later said he was honest to goodness gagged oblivious, the first occasion when he had been thumped out in a match amid his profession.
On the October 2, 2006 scene of Raw, obstruction from the recently changed D-Generation X (DX) (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) cost Edge his "last risk" at John Cena's WWE Championship in a Steel confine match, however their impedance was a reaction to the obstruction of Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, prompted Edge drawing closer Randy Orton and requesting that he unite to crush DX, which Orton acknowledged and joined a cooperation with Edge. The two framed the label group Rated-RKO. Rated-RKO turned into the first to overcome DX since their get-together, at Cyber Sunday, Rated-RKO vanquished D-Generation X with Eric Bischoff as the unique visitor arbitrator, at Survivor Series, Rated-RKO collaborated with Johnny Nitro, Mike Knox and Gregory Helms to face Team DX (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, CM Punk and The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff Hardy)) yet all individuals from Team Rated-RKO were eliminated. Rated-RKO immediately ruled the Raw brand's label group division to wind up label group champions, making Edge a record holder of 11 World Tag Team Championship title reigns in his WWE career. Due to Lita resigning that night, her on-screen association with Edge suddenly finished, with no clarification.
As a feature of the storyline point, Rated-RKO assaulted Ric Flair with steel seats to goad DX on November 27. At New Year's Revolution in January 2007, Rated-RKO confronted DX in a title protection, however the match was announced a no-challenge when Triple H endured a honest to goodness harm amid the match. At Royal Rumble, Edge contended in the 30-man Royal Rumble match where he kept going the longest in the match with a period of 44:02 and disposed of 5 men and made it to the last 4 in the match before getting wiped out by Shawn Michaels, With Triple H out of activity, the group proceeded with their on-screen contention with outstanding DX part Shawn Michaels. Michaels cooperated with John Cena to vanquish Rated-RKO for the label group title on January 29, 2007.[106] Edge and Orton endured a progression of misfortunes to Cena and Michaels in the next months, In April 2007, Edge contended in the Money in the Bank stepping stool match at WrestleMania 23. Amid the match, Matt Hardy tossed him onto a stepping stool and energized Jeff Hardy, who was near the triumphant attaché, to complete him off. Tough then jumped off the 20-foot-high (6.1 m) stepping stool, and drove him through the stepping stool with a leg drop, apparently harming both Edge and himself. The two were not able proceed with the match and were expelled from ringside on stretchers. After this Edge and Orton additionally got to be adversaries in their objectives of accomplishing the WWE Championship. Neither Edge nor Orton won the title, and they lost their cases as number one contenders after a fizzled match with Cena at Backlash in April.
On the May 7, 2007 scene of Raw, Edge interfered with an in-ring promo by the champ of the 2007 Money in the Bank contract, Mr. Kennedy. Kennedy had said for quite a long time that he would not trade out the agreement until the accompanying WrestleMania, however Edge chose to prod him into a match for his folder case. Edge assaulted Kennedy before the match even began, extremely harming his shoulder, and exploited the damage to beat Kennedy and take the briefcase. Edge accordingly turned into the primary individual to pick up the Money in the Bank contract twice and the first not to do as such in the stepping stool match. (This was done to give Kennedy time to recover from what was initially thought to be a totally torn triceps ligament, however later ended up being a substantially less serious damage.)
It didn't take Edge long to exploit his recently won open door. On the May 11 scene of SmackDown!, World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker held his title against Batista in a steel confine match. At that point, Mark Henry assaulted the Undertaker. In spite of being a piece of the Raw list, Edge turned out, traded out his Money in the Bank contract for a title coordinate, and skewered Undertaker for the triumph and his first World Heavyweight Championship. subsequently, Edge turned into an individual from the SmackDown! program. Edge then started a fight with Batista and effectively guarded his title against him at Judgment Day, in a Steel Cage match at One Night Stand, and a third and last time by include out a last risk match at Vengeance. Edge then started a quarrel with Kane after SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long reported Kane as the new number one contender for the World Heavyweight title. Edge was compelled to surrender the World title because of a honest to goodness torn left pectoral muscle harm on the July 20 scene of SmackDown! taking after an assault by Kane.
At November's compensation per-view occasion, Survivor Series, Edge made his arrival, meddling in a World Heavyweight Championship Hell in a Cell match amongst Batista and The Undertaker. The accompanying SmackDown! show saw Edge and General Manager Vickie Guerrero make their relationship public, making his authority in-ring return in a World title match against Batista on November 30, a match that finished after The Undertaker interfered. At Armageddon, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship, in the wake of giving The Undertaker two seat shots and sticking the guarding champion Batista (who had been Tombstoned by Undertaker earlier) in a Triple Threat match. Amid the match, Edge utilized two look-a-likes to occupy Batista and The Undertaker. It was later uncovered that these look-a-preferences were the Major Brothers, who were then repackaged as Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder. Edge additionally shaped a partnership with Chavo Guerrero, nephew of Vickie Guerrero, and on the January 22, 2008 communicate of ECW, he helped Chavo in winning the ECW Championship from CM Punk, despite the fact that Chavo beforehand repelled Edge and aligned himself with Rey Mysterio, Edge's booked rival at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view. The gathering in the end went under the name of La Familia. On the Valentine's Day scene of SmackDown, Edge proposed to Vickie, to which she acknowledged.
At WrestleMania XXIV, Edge lost the World Heavyweight title to the Undertaker when he tapped out to the Hell's Gate. In a WrestleMania rematch, The Undertaker vanquished Edge at the end of the day at Backlash to hold the World Heavyweight championship. Following Backlash, The Undertaker was stripped of the World title by Vickie Guerrero and confronted Edge for the title at Judgment Day in May and afterward again at One Night Stand in a TLC match in June. The principal match finished with a countout triumph for The Undertaker however no champion was delegated due to the circumstances. The second match at One Night Stand saw Edge leave champion, which likewise implied Undertaker was compelled to leave the company.
On June 29, 2008, Edge confronted Batista in a match for his title at Night of Champions. Because of impedance from La Familia and a belt shot from Edge, he could crush Batista. The following night on Raw, which happened a week after that year's draft lottery, Edge turned out to brag about his triumph and in addition the way that, because of the draft, both the WWE Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship were both SmackDown property (Triple H, who was the ruling WWE Champion at the time, was drafted to SmackDown and had held his title at Night of Champions too). As Edge was leaving the ring, a furious Batista (who had been drafted back to Raw following three years as a SmackDown wrestler) turned out and pursued Edge back to the ring. He continued to ambush Edge, completing with a Batista Bomb in the ring. Pretty much as Batista was leaving, CM Punk rushed to the ring conveying the Money in the Bank satchel he had won at WrestleMania XXIV, with arbitrator Mike Chioda following alongside him. Since Edge was still out of it from the assault, he didn't see Punk come into the ring and hence was uninformed that Punk was trading in for spendable dough his agreement. Once the ringer rang, Punk just hit Edge with a Go To Sleep and stuck him to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
On the April 11, 2011 scene of Raw, Edge gave a discourse about his profession and the substances of wrestling. He said he took further tests to his essential quality tests, and a MRI result constrained him to retire. Leading up to this declaration, he had reflected upon his past neck damage and cervical vertebral combination, and felt deadness in his arms. This was analyzed as cervical spinal stenosis, and specialists would not clear him to contend, for take an enormous risk down loss of motion or death. Later that same week on the April 15 scene of SmackDown, Edge authoritatively surrendered the World Heavyweight Championship, resigning as the World Champion.
On the April 22, 2011 scene of SmackDown, Edge intruded on Alberto Del Rio's false retirement party for him. At Extreme Rules, Edge showed up watching his companion Christian winning the empty World Heavyweight Championship. At SummerSlam, Christian had Edge come back to be in his corner for his World Heavyweight Championship resistance against Randy Orton. Be that as it may, Edge, frustrated by the fearful strategies Christian used to win his second World Heavyweight Championship, scolded him and left him. Christian then lost the title to Orton for a brief moment time. On the September 16, 2011 scene of SmackDown, in the place where he grew up of Toronto, Edge facilitated The Cutting Edge between Mark Henry and the World Heavyweight Champion, Randy Orton. After the show went off the air, they held Edge Appreciation Night to praise his profession.
On March 31, 2012, Edge (with his standard long hair style short) was drafted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Christian, amid WrestleMania XXVIII weekend. Edge showed up on the April 23, 2012 scene of Raw, going up against his long-lasting adversary John Cena about Brock Lesnar. He specified that in spite of sharing the greatest contention of their vocations, they generally shared common profound respect for expert wrestling. In a demonstration of inspiration, he advised Cena to 'wake up' and beat Brock Lesnar. He additionally specified in advance that he shouldn't be on the demonstrate that night, likewise pronouncing that he would never again be under contract with WWE in two or three days. After this, his agreement with the WWE had truly lapsed. On the September 20, 2012 scene of SmackDown, Edge showed up tending to Team Hell No.
Edge returned on the September 9, 2013 scene of Raw in the place where he grew up of Toronto where he facilitated his syndicated program The Cutting Edge having Daniel Bryan as his exceptional visitor after Randy Orton was booked to be his unique visitor. Edge offended Triple H in the fragment, who struck back by naming Edge's headliner push as a complete disappointment and sending The Shield to assault Edge's companion Christian. At the point when Edge went to defy Triple H, he was escorted from the building. Edge facilitated The Cutting Edge on the September 13 scene of SmackDown, where he taunted Randy Orton and looked as Orton's assault on Bryan reverse discharges.
Edge and Christian facilitated the December 29, 2014 scene of Raw, where they held the main continually Cutting Edge Peep Show talking with Seth Rollins, who, alongside Big Show, assaulted them. Rollins held Edge prisoner, along these lines constraining John Cena to restore the Authority. At the point when Rollins attempted to break Edge's neck at any rate, Cena wound up making the save.
On the September 7, 2015 release of Raw, he and Christian showed up with Seth Rollins, The New Day, and The Dudley Boyz. Edge additionally showed up with Christian on a podcast with Stone Cold Steve Austin later that same night on the WWE Network.
Acting Career
In 2000, Copeland had a cameo appearance as a street desperado in the dream film Highlander: Endgame. In March 2002, he showed up with different wrestlers on the test show Weakest Link. He was voted out in the first round, and the inevitable victor was Kane. On the August 6, 2006 scene of Mind of Mencia, he showed up as Edge as an observer for "The Royal Religious Rumble". He punched out a performing artist playing L. Ron Hubbard to prevent Scientology from decision the world and afterward skewered another performer playing Tom Cruise.
In March 2007, Copeland showed up close by Randy Orton, John Cena, and Bobby Lashley on Deal or No Deal. Weeks after the fact, he showed up on the portrayal comic drama show MADtv. He showed up in a Slim Jim business, in which his "zesty side" brought about tumult in a DMV, an eatery, and a hotel. Edge: a Decade of Decadence, a DVD narrative of Copeland's life, was discharged in December 2008. The DVD represents his wrestling profession dating from when he entered the WWF to 2008.
In June 2011, Copeland showed up as Thelo, an Abnormal, in the Sanctuary scene "Into the Black". In September 2011, he held an "Edgucational" Essay Scholarship Contest, as a reverberation back to how he himself got a begin in the wrestling business. The grant went to one of the understudies at Squared Circle Wrestling in Toronto, Alysha Verhoven, who has since gone ahead to fill in as Leah von Dutch.
Copeland showed up frequently in the Syfy arrangement Haven, which began in July 2011, as Dwight Hendrickson, a grieved man whose tribulation is uncovered to pull in slugs and who functions as a cleaner, tidying up after the inconveniences. He is later designated the Chief of Police. He was a piece of the cast until the show's arrangement finale in December 2015.
WWE Studios discharged Bending the Rules, in which Copeland featured, in 2012. WWE discharged the official trailer of the film on the February 28, 2012 release of Raw. The 2012 narrative, You Think You Know Me – The Story of Edge, incorporates a glance at Copeland's life and vocation in expert wrestling.
In December 2014, Copeland showed up in the music video for the In-Flight Safety tune "Devastate" as his Dwight Hendrickson character.
On July 16, 2015, it was declared that Copeland would be set to depict Atom-Smasher on the second season opener of The Flash.
On July 26, 2016, it was reported that Copeland would play Ketill Flatnose on Season 5 of the Vikings in a repeating part.
Individual life
Copeland used to play hockey with resigned National Hockey League (NHL) player Aaron Downey. He is an aficionado of the NHL's New Jersey Devils. As a young person, Copeland went to WrestleMania VI sitting in the eleventh line at ringside. He was applauding WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan against The Ultimate Warrior, and he acknowledges this match for making him understand he needed to be a wrestler. Twelve years after the fact Edge came back to the SkyDome as a contender at WrestleMania X8. He is dear companions with kindred wrestler Jason Reso, also called Christian. Copeland's most loved band is the Foo Fighters, as he uncovered amid his Hall of Fame induction. Edge lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
His collection of memoirs, Adam Copeland on Edge, was distributed on November 4, 2004. Not at all like most wrestlers who utilized "professional writers" to compose their memoirs, Copeland composed the whole book himself, in longhand. Mick Foley, who additionally composed his wrestling life account himself in longhand, composed the foreword to his book. Copeland does not smoke. He guarantees he had his first cigarette when he was sixteen, despised it, and has not smoked since.
Copeland has a few tattoos: a red and dark sun to his left side upper biceps, which covers a tattoo of a strong shark which looked like the Street Sharks; a star on his right upper biceps with a few littler stars and two skulls wearing handkerchiefs, decorated with blossoms and hearts, beneath said star tattoo; a tattoo of a cross to his left side lower arm; and another tattoo of a parchment like bit of paper enhanced with the words "Ascend Above". The majority of Copeland's tattoos speak to a phase in his vocation. His sun, which Copeland got while recuperating from his neck damage, speaks to "looking towards brighter days." The cross tattoo speaks to his time with the Brood, and his star and skull tattoos speak to his Rated-R Superstar persona and his self-broadcasted status as the "Firearms N' Roses of wrestling".
In March 2007, Copeland turned into a key figure in a charged steroid ring and medication examination. On March 19, Sports Illustrated posted an article on its site in its proceeding with arrangement examining a steroid and HGH ring utilized by various expert competitors in a few games. That article said a few present and previous WWE wrestlers, including Copeland, who was asserted to have acquired HGH. Copeland has already confessed to utilizing steroids as a part of April 2004 after neck surgery as an analysis on TSN's Off The Record with Michael Landsberg in January 2005. He said, he felt it backed him off, so he rapidly got off the substance. According to Copeland, he took HGH in the wake of coming back from a spinal combination neck surgery. He was told by specialists that it would help the bones become back around the screws and plate that were embedded into his neck. He claims to have taken blood tests, counseled specialists, concentrated on the medication, and got solutions before choosing to take them.
As indicated by a Sports Illustrated article pivoted on August 30, 2007, Copeland was named one of ten whizzes found to have bought steroids and different medications from an online drug store, an infringement of the WWE Talent Wellness program. Copeland was said to have gotten somatropin, genotropin, and stanozolol between September 2004 and February 2007.
Copeland wedded Alannah Morley, the sister of Sean Morley, on November 8, 2001. They separated following two years on March 10, 2004. His second marriage was to Lisa Ortiz on October 21, 2004. The couple separated on November 17, 2005. On December 12, 2013, Copeland and previous WWE wrestler Beth Phoenix had a girl, and named her Lyric Rose Copeland. On May 31, 2016, their second little girl was conceived, they named her Ruby Ever Copeland.
Titles and achievements
Canadian Wrestling Association
CWA North American Championship (1 time)
Crazy Championship Wrestling
ICW Street Fight Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Christian Cage (1) and Joe E. Legend (1)
ICW/MWCW Mid-West Unified Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Joe E. Legend
George Tragos/Lou Thesz International Wrestling Institute
Lou Thesz Award (2013)
OCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Joe E. Legend
Rebound of the Year (2004)
Quarrel of the Year (2005) with Lita versus Matt Hardy
Quarrel of the Year (2006) versus John Cena
Match of the Year (2000) with Christian versus The Dudley Boyz versus The Hardy Boyz in a Triangle Ladder match at WrestleMania 2000
Match of the Year (2001) with Christian versus The Dudley Boyz versus The Hardy Boyz in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at WrestleMania X-Seven
Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (2006)
Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2001)
PWI positioned him 2 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2007
WWE Championship (4 times)
World Heavyweight Championship (7 times)
WWF/E Intercontinental Championship (5 times)
Title Chase Tournament
WCW United States Championship (1 time)
World Tag Team Championship (12 times) – with Christian (7), Hollywood Hulk Hogan (1), Chris Benoit (2), Randy Orton (1) and Chris Jericho (1)
WWE Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Rey Mysterio (1) and Chris Jericho (1)
Lord of the Ring (2001)
Cash in the Bank (2005)
Regal Rumble (2010)
Boasting Rights Trophy (2010) – with Team SmackDown (Big Show, Rey Mysterio, Jack Swagger, Alberto Del Rio, Tyler Reks, and Kofi Kingston)
Fourteenth Triple Crown Champion
Seventh Grand Slam Champion
WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2012)
Slammy Awards (2 times)
Couple of the Year (2008) – with Vickie Guerrero
"Gracious Snap" Meltdown of the Year (2010) Destroying the Anonymous Raw General Manager's PC
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Match of the Year (2002) with Rey Mysterio versus Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit at No Mercy
Label Team of the Year (2000) with Christian
Most exceedingly bad Feud of the Year (2010) versus Kane
Most exceedingly bad Worked Match of the Year (2008) versus Vladimir Kozlov and Triple H at Survivor Series
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