To Edge, facing Damian Priest in Toronto will be like competing in the main event of WrestleMania or a number of other remarkable matches he’s had over the course of his legendary career.
The WWE Hall of Famer has headlined WrestleManias and wrestled in numerous high-profile bouts, but his clash with Priest on the August 22 episode of WWE RAW will be particularly special. It will be part of a story that the two men have been involved in since WrestleMania 38, when Priest joined forces with Edge to create what later became The Judgment Day. The faction later kicked the veteran out, and he returned with a vengeance at SummerSlam. This showdown with Priest has been brewing ever since.
In an interview with Scott Fishman of TV Insider, when asked to describe what the match means to him, “The Rated-R Supersar” stated that it’s massive to him because he never thought he’d get to wrestle in Toronto again after he previously retried from the ring in 2011. He also noted that the bout has been built up over a few weeks, so there’s more meaning attached to it.
“I’m putting it right up there with the main event of WrestleMania,” said Edge. “I’m putting it up there with Hell in a Cell with Seth Rollins. It’s massive for me, personally. To never expect to go back and wrestle there again, and come back 12 years since I last wrestled on television there. I saw Toronto on the schedule. I said to Paul [Levesque], ‘We got something we can promote here. We have a few weeks to build a television match, so we can treat it as something special.’ Everyone was on board and thought it could be really cool.
“You get in there with a guy like Priest. It’s a huge opportunity. I love that I can get in there with this current crop of talent. It’s really exciting to get this thing back. The acting was great. It fell on my lap, but I’ve always wanted to be a wrestler. Now it falls second behind being dad, husband. It’s still very important in my life. I’m having a blast. I have the best gig in the world, and I know it. In Toronto, I’m going to have so many goosebumps on top of goosebumps.”
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I’m home. Edge vs Priest. Toronto. Tonight. #RAW pic.twitter.com/RAMWY7yH8z
— Adam (Edge) Copeland (@EdgeRatedR) August 22, 2022
