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Adam Copeland is a Canadian professional wrestler
known as Edge (born October 30, 1973 in Orangeville, Ontario) who performs for
World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand.
In late February 2005, Edge had a real-life
adulterous affair with WWE Diva Lita, causing her and her long time boyfriend
and WWE Superstar Matt Hardy to split, when Matt was contacted by Edge's wife.
The fallout of this affair resulted in Matt Hardy being released from the WWE,
although he was eventually rehired.
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Statistics
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Stage names
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Sexton Hardcastle
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Adam Impact
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Conquistador Uno
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Edge
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Height 6'5" (196 cm)
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Weight 250lbs (113 kg)
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Born October 30, 1973
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Hometown Orangeville, Ontario
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Billed from Toronto, Ontario
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Trained by Ron Hutchinson
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Sweet Daddy Siki
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Sully's Gym (Toronto)
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Bret and Stu Hart
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Dory Funk, Jr.
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Tom Prichard
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Debut 1993
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Career
Throughout the 1990s he wrestled for many
independent promotions in Ontario as well in the Great Lakes region of the
United States under the name Sexton Hardcastle. His previous managers were
Johnny Bradford and Judd the Studd. He showed much potential and was signed by
the then-WWF in 1998.
Many thought that upon his arrival, he would be the
next Shawn Michaels. So far, Copeland has found some success in WWE, but not to
the magnitude as Michaels has found. He was at first introduced as an enigmatic
character, who quickly was teamed with his former tag team partner and on-screen
brother, from independent promotions, Christian. The two joined The Undertaker's
Ministry of Darkness, and eventually found success as a heel comic duo of surfer
dudes/teenyboppers, winning the WWE Tag-Titles 7 times. After with an on-screen
feud, the team then dropped the storyline brotherhood gimmick when he and
Christian broke out on their own. After the split of the team Edge continued
with the character for the most part, only as a face.
In 2000, he made a cameo appearance in the movie
Highlander: Endgame as "Road bandit".
In 2002, Copeland suffered a neck injury that
required surgery that kept him sidelined for close to a year. He wrote a column
on WWE.com while he rehabilitated. He was scheduled to return to the ring in
February 2004, but suffered a wrist injury just before his expected return. He
was placed on the RAW brand in the draft lottery after WrestleMania XX, and
returned to in-ring action shortly after that event. On April 19, 2004, he and
Chris Benoit won the RAW tag team title.
On July 10 at Vengeance 2004 Edge went one-on-one
with Randy Orton and ended Orton's 9 month Intercontinental title reign. On
September 7, 2004, Eric Bischoff stripped Edge of the title because of a injury
Edge received at a non-televised wrestling match.
His character was then portrayed as a crazed heel
with a severe anger management problem, feuding with such wrestlers as Shawn
Michaels, who he believes is the reason he did not get a chance to compete for
the World Heavyweight Title at Taboo Tuesday. They have faced each other many
times, including at the 2005 Royal Rumble.
At WrestleMania 21, Edge won the
"Money-in-the-Bank" Ladder Match to gain a match for the WWE World Heavyweight
Championship. As per the stipulations of the match, his title match is
guaranteed for up to a year, until WrestleMania XXII.
Edge, still being portrayed as a crazed heel who
blames everyone else for problems and missed opportunities in his wrestling
career, now refers to himself by the nickname "Mr. Money-in-the-Bank" and
carries his World Heavyweight Championship match contract in a briefcase
wherever he goes.
Edge is currently feeling heat due to a recent
decision to betray a fellow wrestler and real life friend, Matt Hardy. WWE upper
management is displeased with the extramarital affair he had with Amy Dumas (Lita),
a wrestling Diva and Matt's girlfriend of six years.
Yet, Edge was paired with Lita in the TV storyline
after she turned on Kane to help Edge win the Gold Rush Tournament on the May
16, 2005 edition of RAW. Edge then faced the World Heavyweight Champion Batista
the next week. Despite the interference of Christian and Tyson Tomko, Edge lost
to Batista after Batista hit Edge with the Batista Bomb.
On Vengeance, June 26, 2005, he had a match versus
Kane. Edge lost to Kane by chokeslam. On RAW, July 11, Edge was featured in the
main event with Kane as Matt Hardy made a shocking appearance by twice attacking
Edge backstage and in the ring and Hardy grabbed a mic during a restraining
attempt by security and did what is suspected to be a worked shoot, referring to
Edge as "Adam" and issued a threat to Lita as well. This episode raised
suspicions of the adultery as being an storyline, using the internet community
to achieve heel heat to boost Edge's standing as a major player in the WWE and
all parties involved conspired to fool the fans to believe what may really be
kayfabe all along and this affair may never have taken place at all.
Edge and Lita were interviewed by Todd Grisham on
the July 18 episode of Raw, and Edge began yelling at a scared Grisham,
complaining about Matt Hardy and "the geeks" who asked questions from "behind a
keyboard" on ByteThis.com. Later that evening, as Edge approached the ring for
his steel cage match with Kane, he was attacked by Hardy once again. Edge
eventually managed to defeat Kane inside the cage after hitting his larger
opponent with his omnipresent briefcase.
On the August 1 episode of Raw, Vince McMahon
officially announced the return of Matt Hardy, and scheduled a match between
Hardy and Edge at SummerSlam 2005.
On August 21, 2005, at SummerSlam, Matt Hardy and
Edge faced each other in a battle which was hardly considered a wrestling match
but an all-out brawl. The match wound up coming to a premature end when Edge
dropped Hardy onto the top of a ring-post, causing him to bleed and eventually
leading to the referee ending the match on the grounds that Hardy couldn't
continue. Edge was declared the winner.
August 22, 2005, Edge came over to sit down at the
commentator's desk with Lita to distract Matt Hardy during his match against Rob
Conway. To Edge's delight, Hardy lost his match and Edge went to the ring, gave
him several punches to the head and then put Hardy's head in between the steel
steps and the ring post and kicked the steps into Hardy's head.
On August 29, 2005, Matt Hardy and Edge once again
faced off on RAW in a Street Fight which saw the two superstars take it to each
other like never before. Steel chairs, a ladder, steel ring steps, a singapore
cane, if it wasn't glued down, it became a weapon. The match went back and
forth, and eventually wound up on the stage near the Titantron. As Matt was
about to powerbomb Lita off the stage in retribution for her distracting him,
Edge intervened, and the two of them tried to use their finishing moves on each
other but failed. Matt nailed Edge with the Side Effect (Side Slam variation),
but the two of them went flying off the stage onto electrical equipment. They
were then carted off by EMT's to receive medical attention.
Personal
During his high school years, he was voted, "the
most likely to win the WWF World Heavyweight Championship," which he has yet to
do, though he was positioned as a title contender for the World Heavyweight
Championship before that belt was moved to SmackDown!.
Edge's own autobiography, entitled "Adam Copeland
On Edge" (The On Edge Book), tells of his own voyage in the wrestling industry
and how he found success on the independent circuit and the WWE. It features
details of his personal life before and after becoming a wrestler.
Edge has a tattoo of a sun on his upper bicep.
In
wrestling
Previous managers
Johnny Bradford
Judd the Studd
Lita
Sweet Daddy Ski
Quotes
"I am Mr. money-in-the-bank!"
"Bank on it!"
"...for the benefit of those of you with flash
photography..."
"...totally reeks of awesomeness!"
Finishing/signature moves/weapons
Spear (Shoulder-block Takedown)
Edgecution (Impaler DDT)
Edgecator (Inverted Cloverleaf Leg-lace Crab)
One Man Con-Chair-To (Sandwich Chairshot)
Edge-O-Matic (Sitout Rear Mat Slam)
Downward Spiral (Reverse STO)
Missile Dropkick
Electric Chair Bomb
Half-Nelson Face Buster
Flying Spear
Briefcase
Title History
5-time WWE Intercontinental Champion
7/24/99-7/25/99
8/19/01-9/23/01
10/21/01-11/5/01
11/18/01-1/20/02
7/11/04-09/06/04
1-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion
11/12/01-11/18/01 (Defeated WWE Intercontinental
Champion Test in a title unification match, US Title absorbed until 7/27/03)
10-time World Tag Team Champion
4/2/00-5/29/00 (with Christian, as Edge &
Christian)
6/25/00-9/24/00 (with Christian)
10/22/00-10/23/00 (with Christian, as Los
Conquistadores)
12/10/00-12/18/00 (with Christian)
12/19/00-1/21/01 (with Christian)
3/19/01 (with Christian, defeated the Hardy Boyz,
lost to The Dudley Boyz in the same night)
4/1/01-4/17/01 (with Christian; won a Tables,
Ladders, and Chairs match)
7/2/02-7/21/02 (with Hulk Hogan)
4/19/04-05/31/04 (with World Heavyweight Champion
Chris Benoit)
10/19/04-11/01/04 (with Chris Benoit)
1-time WWE Tag Team Champion
11/5/02-11/17/02 (with Rey Mysterio, Jr.)
2001
King of the Ring
Awards
Edge won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI)
Comeback of the Year Award in 2004. He also won Most Improved in 2001 and Match
of the Year in 2000 and 2001. Those matches were Edge & Christian vs. the Dudley
Boyz vs. the Hardy Boyz.
PWI Top 500 wrestlers ranked at number 8 (2005)
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