Randy Orton and Edge feuded through the first half of 2020 following the latter’s WWE in-ring return, and The Viper looked back on the rivalry in a recent interview with WrestleRant.
At the WWE Backlash 2020 pay-per-view event, Orton defeated Edge in a match billed as “The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever.”
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On his feud with Edge: “I was stuck, I wasn’t putting as much time and effort into those promos. Then when I started working with Edge, we had a lot of history and I was able to go into our past and dig up some moments that were completely 100% factual. I’d flub a word or my grammar wouldn’t be great or I would misspeak, but because of the emotion behind what I was saying it didn’t matter because they knew that I believed in what I was saying.”
On gaining more confidence in his promo work before his 2023 injury: “When I started getting the reaction to me on the microphone that I’d never gotten before I realized like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been missing out on this for almost 20 years? Holy s**t. It’s so much more than wrestling, the promos are so important, and I hate that I was so late to the game on them but just blessed that I am still around so that I can continually improve.”