WWE Monday Night Raw rages on. We see a video package of the Orton/Edge feud. We then see Edge backstage in a dark room. He cuts a promo talking about Randy Orton accusing Adam Copeland of being a junkie for Edge. He might be right. But it’s not about ego. He just leaves the feeling that happens in an arena, the explosion when that music hits. The raw intensity that he shares with his audience because he’s one of them, he came from them. We’re all junkies for this. As a 13 year old kid sitting at ringside for Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior. If you’re not a junkie for this then you’re just taking up space, in his way. Clearly they have different definitions of the word ‘grit’. To Orton, being hand-picked by Evolution or resting on the laurels of his family name, coasting off-and-on in spurts for the last twenty years, okay with being okay, represents grit.
And being ‘okay’ for Randy Orton means a Hall of Fame career, but to him, grit means pulling someone out of a hole that maybe doesn’t deserve it. Forging your own Hall of Fame career. To him, grit is figuring out a way to get back after nine years and ending this on your terms. He made a mistake, he was wrong, saying Randy was jealous of him. He’s not jealous of Edge, he’s jealous of passion.
He says you can’t fabricate passion, you have it or you don’t and the only time that Randy has it is when Edge is around.
Edge makes him better, lights a fire under him. Everybody says it, he hears it, right now Randy Orton is better than he’s ever been, the last time he scratched being this good was nine years ago. Tells him to listen to the voices in his head, the voices that can’t handle this feeling, they talked him into make a horrible mistake.
Edge says Orton attacked his pack. He almost had him believing that the Royal Rumble was enough of a closure for him, but then he attacked his wife and spoke the names of his little girls. And he pulled him back in. Edge says Orton accepted a Last Man Standing match with him, a man that will leap through a flaming table and into thumbtacks just to grab the torch that he took for granted. You dug yourself another hole, didn’t you Randy? This time, he’s not gonna pull you back out. He will push him so far in, he will never get back out. End segment.
This is the best angle WWE has had in I have absolutely no idea how long.
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