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Tell me what the why was with two of you.
That's a great question. The why for Edge and John Cena.
For me, it was just, why am I doing this?
Because I'm good, and I'm going to prove to you guys how good I am.
John Cena was like the modern -day Hulk Hogan.
You want some?
Come get some!
Good job.
Hogan had Roddy Piper, who was one of the most glorious bad guys.
And Edge was a guy willing to go to any length to get people to hate him. We got
put against each other at the right time for both of our characters.
He needed that villain.
And I was fully committed to being that villain.
When it comes to do or die situations,
I thrive.
To me, that's what John Cena needed.
He needed that landmark opponent to put him on the map. How do you think I got
that money in the bank in the first place?
There is sex.
There is violence.
There is excitement.
This is about to tap.
Oh, my God.
What's not to love about this rivalry?
The champ is here.
This rivalry.
When two legends collide, their rivalry stays pinned in our minds forever.
This is where we break down the legendary stories behind the greatest
of all time.
I'm Freddie Prinze Jr., and this is WWE Rivals.
It's early 2000s, 2005, 2006, and we're talking John Cena and someone's
favorite wrestler.
At this point in both men's careers, these two guys needed each other to make
each other. They both were in a position to be the man, but you have to have
that perfect foil.
John was definitely the baby face.
Adam was definitely the heel.
Certainly. These two guys defined those two roles to a T and then
produced.
We were both of a similar mindset to make each other.
When you get two guys with the same mentality and the same mindset, you can
magic out there.
You can go all the way back to Edge's debut.
Edge came in with a group of talent, brought them into Connecticut for a
took a look at who may have potential.
Edge was one of those talent that we looked at and said, you've got it, not
what it was, and brought him in originally as Edge, kind of a dark.
loner, brooding kind of character.
I loved how he turned that into what
he did with Edge and Christian.
And especially leaning into their sense of humor.
For the next five seconds, we will very generously pose for all of you with the
benefit of flash photography.
He didn't take himself too serious, but he was serious when he needed to be. And
that sort of fun creativity is in his DNA.
I know I'm not the money in the world. We're putting your bodies through this.
I think Adam had built a reputation up to this point for being involved in
highly dangerous matches, going through multiple tables, falling off ladders,
spearing Jeff Hardy. Almost all of his highlight reel moments involved some
of human body car crash.
As a tag team, without a doubt, Edge and Christian were one of the greatest tag
teams in the history of the industry. But I think that Edge was still looking
break through and be that single superstar.
First time I met John, he was still doing the different colored tights for
hometown, you know, team kind of thing. So if we're in Minnesota, he's wearing
purple and yellow.
I didn't really think much.
past that initially.
You didn't see the humor in John Cena.
You didn't see the quick wit.
You didn't see how smart he really was.
You saw a big jock.
John Cena burst on the scene and immediately had energy.
Ruthless aggression!
That worked for a little bit, but not very long, and the Doctor of Thuganomics
was born.
I know you're listening, so I'm about to drop a heavyweight dose of Thuganomics
on ya. While it may have been a hokey version of who he was, it really was
in his personality.
You can't see me.
I've been lucky enough to, like, take one thing at a time.
Get yourself as presentable as you can.
Learn to perform. Be comfortable in talking.
It all comes with failure.
I just wanted to be the best me I could be.
After about a year, there was something about John that you saw in
his eye that made John stand out from everyone else.
The character kind of kept evolving from being this sort of funny guy to a more
serious and relatable hero.
A guy who did everything the right way.
Hustle.
loyalty, and respect.
These are three virtues no one can have a problem with.
I've seen it by that point, and you could tell like he was finding a groove.
I felt like I was treading water.
It took me a while to really kind of sort through where I was at and
how to get where I wanted to go.
I've been here for a long time, paid a lot of dues, and I'm about due.
I'm a ten -time tag team champion, U .S. champion, king of the ring, five -time
intercontinental champion.
Then it became this frustrated, angry, paranoid, delusional
character. I have waited my entire career for a championship match.
And the fact that I haven't had one is a crime.
Everything about the World Heavyweight Championship, that's all that mattered
this character.
WrestleMania 21.
Los Angeles, California.
Big time.
And it was a big time night for two future Hall of Famers.
JBL versus John Cena.
WWE Championship on the line.
I got to work with John when he got his first run into, say, 30 -minute matches,
which is...
A big difference. Anybody can do an eight -minute match. Doing a 30 -minute
match is the deep water. That's where a lot of guys never make that transition.
Vince McMahon came up to me one time. He goes, how is John? I said, he's your
guy. And Vince was very pleased. He said, really? I said, yeah. You could
right away. Once a guy got in the deep water like that, he not only swam, he
thrived. And you could tell from that point forward, he had a feel that was
God -given to wrestling.
Where did Cena get this from?
Here he comes! He's got him!
One, two, three!
Here's the champion!
Winning the first WWE Championship at WrestleMania 21, I still couldn't
how crazy it was.
There was just a few folks that thought I was alright and promised myself I
would respect that and give it the best shot I had.
Still at that point, that was way far away from me hitting stride.
I think Cena needed Edge.
He's the guy, but he needs that foil.
And I think Edge was the perfect guy.
An 11 -time tag champion, a WWE record, but he's obsessed with becoming the
world heavyweight champion. And he sees this ladder match as his opportunity to
do that.
WrestleMania 21, it's pretty pivotal looking back.
You know, it was a real changing of the guard. I mean, it started before then,
but it was solidified at WrestleMania 21.
Only one way to win, that's to climb the ladder, retrieve the briefcase, and you
have won yourself a world title match for any time up to one year.
Edge has won the match.
You have Edge winning the Money in the Bank briefcase, which gave him a
championship opportunity whenever he wanted. It gave him and his character a
whole different sort of motivation.
And when he was walking around with Lita and that briefcase, he was a dangerous
man. Oh, look at this pair.
Edge and Lita.
She's a home record. You can take that to the bank. And apparently that's
exactly what Mr. Money in the Bank has done.
We started to blur the lines of reality and storyline.
I was involved with Edge personally, and they decided to bring it in front of
the cameras.
These two got a hell of a lot of explaining to do.
To me, Lita made the rated R superstar.
No man that I've ever been with could have satisfied me.
Except one.
The next world heavyweight champion.
Lita completed Edge.
Now everybody in the audience had a reason to hate Edge.
Edge and Lita were just fantastic together.
Not only is that contract money in the bank, but I am money in
the bank.
Edge had the Money in the Bank briefcase for so long that it became the boy who
cried wolf. You just figured they're not going to go anywhere with it.
He made you wait and wait and wait and wait.
John Cena with everything he's got.
If we're going to cash this thing in.
Edge can't do this in a straight -up match. It's got to be in an instance
your champion is down and out.
He got him! He got him! He got him! Here is your winner, John
Cena!
Nobody goes anywhere. This night is not over. Raise the cage.
John Cena, prone, bloody, beaten, battered, but victorious.
is sitting there in the ring after his match, and here
comes Edge's music, and a rivalry
is born.
Edge is casting in, and casting it in big time.
Cashing in, and cashing it in big time when John Cena is at his weakest.
Because of the way it was done, because I'm exhausted and just barely won the
Elimination Chamber, it also doesn't seem fair.
He can cash in his championship match any time, any place, and what better
and place than after the Elimination Chamber? And that's what made the Money
the Bank so powerful.
Although it's a legitimate match, the person holding the briefcase can really
opportunistic when they choose to have that match. And all that foundation was
laid that night.
Turn around, it's over. Edge is just waiting on him. He has the spin. He has
spin. He's got to be mad.
He got it.
Edge is the new WWE champion.
Cena has his match.
Edge gets to cash in.
and be evil in this moment on a weakened and tired John Cena who just went
through the ringer.
And now Edge beats him, and we're off to the races.
It's one of the most unforgettable moments that I ever witnessed because
this worker's worker in Edge who's had the tag success, who's also had a couple
start stops as a single, and to be able to be the one in that moment, the play,
and the player doing it, anyone who doubted it couldn't doubt it anymore,
couldn't doubt Edge anymore.
Cashing in the money in the bank felt like a vindication, like I knew I could
get here.
All of those days of dreaming, it all kind of flashes by, and then you come
of rocketing into this present. You're staring at this thing, and then I just
started headbutting it. That was my first inclination.
Ed had shocked the world!
Well, I'll tell you what he's done.
He's stolen the damn title!
That money in the bank was going to be a catalyst for like a new direction for
his career entirely.
And when we talked about it, you know, he said that you could just feel the
lightning in the bottle. And this was the moment for him to solidify that he
going to be a top player. And he wasn't going to let anybody's decision making
or anybody else deny him that. He made himself undeniable.
I understand that some people are calling me a cheap champion.
I stand before you, your new WWE champion.
Edge really thought once he cashed in and was the champion that we're going to
have a run together, you know, and really do this. And we both felt ready.
like, we can do this. We're going to carry it. It's time.
For the 19th consecutive year, the road to WrestleMania begins at the Royal
Rumble.
The following contest is scheduled for one fall, and it is for the WWE
Championship. There was no one more deserving of being elevated into the
position of being a WrestleMania main eventer more than Edge, with one
exception.
That had to burn Edge's ass.
I think Adam and Edge were both thinking the same thing at this point. We were
both pissed off.
The champ is John Cena, and the champ is here!
I feel bad that Adam felt that way, but it's also good because it pushed him to
do more.
I wanted to change the plans, because we got something here. Like, the people
are into this.
I knew we're going to have no choice but to come back to it.
And I'm personally going to give them no choice.
It is now time for John Cena to defend the WWE Championship in front of perhaps
the most hostile crowd that any superstar has ever shown.
ECW, the famed Philadelphia wrestling organization, had been reborn under WWE.
So because the fan base was so into hardcore wrestling, The ECW fan base,
needed no one more than John Cena.
The level of commitment to sit through those boos and maintain that babyface
persona every day, forever.
The level of commitment to that character was bulletproof.
And no one in the arena sat down.
Whether you cheered him or booed him, everybody in the arena was standing up
when John Cena walked out.
John Cena has a match against... Rob Van Dam, an absolute darling to the ECW
fans. So they already hate John Cena.
Weighing in at 240 pounds, from West Newbury, Massachusetts,
WWE Champion, John Cena!
Anytime you can get such emotion out of an audience.
Sounds like it would be a hospital environment.
I don't know if it would be this bad.
I could have had a 25 -minute contest with my t -shirt, and that would have
amazing. Taz, have you ever seen anything like this? It doesn't belong
The ECW crowd found John Cena to be the embodiment of everything WWE.
John Cena was not extreme.
I'll tell you what, this audience... Hold on, hold on! Cover Queen of the
1K only!
Then,
all of a sudden, after a few months of not seeing these guys involved with each
other, Edge shows up out of nowhere.
Spears, John Cena.
Rob Van Dam wins the
title.
Mayhem. Rob Van Dam is the champion.
Now you know we are back to John Cena and Edge.
Are you ready? Hold on to your seats because we are live tonight on Raw.
It's going to be Cena, Van Dam, and Edge for the WWE title.
This is huge, JR.
What I was excited about was I knew I would have substance with Adam.
Here, I know I bring a certain something to the table.
He brings a certain something to the table. If we can parlay this into more
just a one -night involvement, I think it would be good for the both of us.
Edge was ready to be the
top star in WWE.
He's young, smart, he's capable.
Edge is a WWE champion.
Now you know we're going to have the beloved John Cena chasing the dastardly
Edge for the world championship.
Cena had the match won, but Edge used the WWE championship to snatch the
Edge was certainly a great heel.
And very few guys want to really be a heel.
Let's not forget one other person. You.
You went to Vince and said, basically, I don't want them to be able to walk up
to the merchandise stand and buy a JBL shirt because I don't want their
You know, if some kid is a hardcore fan and he's sitting on the front row and he
had a JBL shirt on, then somebody in that audience is going to look around
go, well, he's got one fan. He must not be too bad a guy. I don't want anybody
to think I was a decent guy.
I didn't sign autographs walking into arenas.
Edge was the same way.
There's great longevity in that, because with that commitment, then I'm going to
pay to see you get beat again and again and again, and you become a mainstay of
the show.
What's great about Adam is he was a bad guy.
He played his part masterfully. Welcome to West Newberry, Massachusetts.
the home of the former WWE champion John Cena.
You see, me and my lovely lady Lita, we came up here to see what makes John Cena
tick. And we know exactly where we have to go to do it.
Always when you're trying to heat up the intensity of a rivalry, you bring in
the family, right? Like, that's the easiest way to get you where it counts.
What are you doing here? Mr. Cena!
John Cena's father.
Right. I was contacted by WWE to say that they were going to be coming
West Newbury.
They knock at the door.
They introduce themselves.
And I said, okay, what are we going to do now?
Get out of my house! Both of you, now! I don't remember inviting either one of
you. I'm calling the police. Leave now!
Now, I said. Hey!
You can't go up there. Stop.
We were trying to be more organic with it, but he was really performing.
He really got a kick out of performing that day. So, I mean, it was, it was, it
was hilarious.
You know what?
Did you have a nice visit? One, you had a real good visit. You had a good time,
right? Two, take the lady, leave. One of the greatest moments of WWE TV ever.
Love you, Dad. But, man,
I learned a lot from you.
What to do and what not to do.
You know what? I've had enough of both of you. I'm calling the police. I'm
of both of you. Hold on a second. Hold on.
So he walks away, turns around.
It was so quick.
Bye.
It can only be about the championship for so long.
You have to add in layers.
So how do you add in those layers? Well, you go and slap somebody's dad.
That's a layer.
It's very fitting. One Cena goes down today. The other goes down in six days
SummerSlam.
You see, I told John's dad that I was going to beat him to within an inch of
life at SummerSlam.
And there's not a damn thing that him, John, any of you people.
or anybody in Boston can do about it.
I want to see Edge get beat up because if he did that to my dad, I would go out
there and I would fight him because my dad would have done the same thing for
back in the day.
The following contest is scheduled for one fall, and it is for the WWE
Championship.
If the champion Edge gets disqualified, he will lose the WWE Championship.
Because it was John's homecoming, every fan that was there expected John Cena to
take the title.
Boston, Massachusetts, why not?
He's the hometown man.
When I was there, people would talk to me, and they'd go, what do you think the
Suns' chances are?
I said...
I don't know.
I said, I'm hoping it's John Cena. But you can't rule out that devious Snake
Edge. He's always got an ace.
And Cena, I think, is trying as hard as he can to keep his cool.
WWE title on the line. And now Cena forcing Edge back into the corner.
We have the chemistry.
The characters were so diametrically opposed.
When you get to that point with a rivalry, and you can keep going back to
keep going back to it, and the audience is into it too, that's a huge
compliment.
The WWE Champion Edge in control.
Cena, literally in his hometown here in Boston.
The atmosphere here is electric. This place is buzzing.
I don't ever give up.
It's going to be tough to beat me because you can hit me with your best
It's going to take a lot to keep my shoulders down for three seconds.
Edge and Lita, arguably the most powerful couple in the WWE.
When I think of the radar superstars, it's not just Edge, it's Edge and Lita.
We had amazing chemistry.
So Edge Cena works, but it works not much better because Lita's out there
Edge, a step up!
and knock Lita!
A roll -up! A roll -up! Yes!
No!
We had shown that, like, I have no boundaries and how evil I would be and
much I would step into the match.
And just pleading with Lita! Lita didn't know what to do!
And she's about to tap!
Oh, my God!
Lita helped not only by being a great performer, but she was instrumental in,
like, stacking the odds.
There was no looking for cheers on the side of Edge. He was willing to go as
as it took.
I think you can't understate who Lita's role in all of this and how Adam would
use Lita in particular situations and how well she played the role.
Look at Lita. She's starting to get nervous. She's starting to pace.
It is not easy to stand in the middle of the ring and have, you know, bottles
slung at you and people calling you every single name under the sun,
as a female.
And rather than shying away from that, she leaned into it. So, like, there were
these moments that she was such an integral part of. It's just two guys
without leading.
Rep, check him! Check him! I'm not, I'm not.
And Lena's in!
Oh, my God!
My God!
Edge is so cool in what he does.
Cena turns around and it's like, bam!
Big brass nuts in the back of my head.
Then I can't see this knocked out.
Cena's knocked out.
By the damn brass nuts.
Come on, ref!
Son of a...
Everybody, including myself, was like, wow, what an ending, what a finish.
That's the way it goes down with a true villain.
We both grew.
I think we both grew as performers together and understood what we both
to do to get to the next level, which was awesome, because we're doing it
together and we're learning it together.
Since I've erased John Cena from my life forever,
I think we should remove the last remnants of John Cena.
With a beautiful burial at sea.
Did you say burial at sea?
Oh, wait a minute. What? Oh, my God.
Oh, there it goes.
Goodbye. Sayonara.
Through it all, he kept doing nefarious things.
Edge crashing my house, winning the championship in the Long Island Sound.
All of those things add to why I want to root for this person. And I think
that's why we worked so well and for so long together.
I love
going
out of the confines of the arena. I love it.
The Long Island sounds like the most polluted body of water in the United
States.
And that didn't fully dawn on me until like the scuba divers were pulling me
and they're fully covered and I'm in tight.
And that week, I was not feeling that great after that.
But we're outside of the arena, and now we're doing stuff that I know kids,
people are going to be talking about. You just threw me along on the sound.
Those are things to me that wrestling can do that other industries
don't have at their fingertips.
I just need one thing from you, and that's one more match.
You had Edge and Cena who had very common goals, and that goal was to be
best. That goal was to be the main event and be the reason that people were
tuning into television and the reason that people were enjoying pay -per
Look out!
It's going to be unforgiven in my hometown, Toronto, Canada.
Oh, my gosh.
His body just breaking in half.
And I've decided what match it's going to be.
A match you've never had.
A match I've never lost.
It's going to be tables, ladders, and chairs.
We welcome you ladies and gentlemen live to Toronto, Canada for the ninth annual
extravaganza known as Unforgiven.
Unforgiven 2006, the story between Edge and John Cena has heated up. It's gotten
nuclear at this point. Edge has proven he can get that title and he can hold
They were a hell of a crowd.
They were fully invested in this thing, man, and it felt so good.
Come out, your hometown main event.
You're the WWE champion. You're going up against this generation's hero, and you
want to live up to that.
I love getting in environments where we are trying to tell a story as a company,
and you know they ain't going to take any of it.
Man, they hated me.
It was great.
I'm yelling at Edge, take this in.
All of it.
I'm the Yankees in Fenway. I'm the Lakers at the Garden.
Let's do that. And that's okay.
Let's give it to them.
So these men have been going at it for a while now.
But this is a physical contest.
That pressure has to be times ten.
Tables, ladders, and chairs are about to come into play. There's going to be a
lot of pain dealt out.
No pinfalls, no submissions, no disqualifications, no count -out. In a
match, only one way to win.
Find the ladder, retrieve the title belt, which is hanging high above the
A TLC match.
Tables, ladders, and chairs. Anything goes at Unforgiven.
It's also an opportunity for John Cena to prove to fans that he's not just the
happy -go -lucky champion.
He's also capable of getting down and dirty with the dirtiest man in the biz
the time, Edge.
We've seen a lot of different strategies utilized in these matches by Edge.
There's a lot of things that make a TLC match pivotal.
And because I'm one of the inventors of the TLC match, there's pressure that
comes with that.
You've got to be good at this thing if you help create it.
You knew that Edge was not going to wait long in introducing the hardware that
this match is all about. Care legal.
So there's a different layer of storytelling involved.
Oh, God!
And with that is a challenge.
John had never been in one.
John's afraid of heights.
Remember, the WWE Championship is hanging high above the ring.
So I have a fear of heights.
But I only did what I knew I could do.
I look at it as an artist. I do.
It's this thing that has energy.
Please just let me paint. Just let me paint a little bit.
You know, and I'm out there and I'm feeling the boys. I didn't want Adam to
paint. This whole environment is about taking chances.
I want him to be able to paint whatever he wanted.
You got two guys in there.
A lot of intensity.
trying to bring something to that audience.
And in doing that, sometimes, you know, there's things that can happen, right?
So let's have me trapped in the ladder.
Well,
that extra distance because of the ladder and John's meaty wrists just
right there.
And I remember thinking to myself,
This feels interesting.
Huh. And then believing I was in my bed and there was an alarm going off
and thinking I was late for my Air Canada flight when it was actually me
the buzzer sound like this weird and then coming to and seeing the Air Canada
Center logo above me.
John had no idea. He ran at me.
Cream me in the face with a ladder. I got a hand up. I don't remember doing
of it.
It's strange being choked out. I wouldn't advise it.
Mancini's on a mean streak here.
I never knew that Adam was in any sort of jeopardy and that he passed out.
This to me has always been the most wild part about wrestling as an art form
because these things happen.
And the show must go on.
I don't know how you all pull this off. I take two weeks off if I step on a Lego
in my house that my kids left on the floor.
That's a serious injury. I appreciate that. Only a mother would give me that
love. Thank you.
But to me, that's always been one of the craziest things about this rivalry.
There is no take two.
You talked about a brutal match.
I've never seen two guys go at it like they did.
John Cena realizes that this, a table, ladder.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,
a minute. John Cena behind the scenes is afraid of heights, but John Cena inside
the ring is afraid of nothing.
That's the mark of a great performer.
When he's out there, he's not John Cena human being.
He's John Cena superhero.
It's tough because you worry, you know, and so it's a weird thing when you're in
my position to be in those high stakes matches because the real person that
cares about the people in the ring is just like just below the surface.
I don't worry about this moment.
As superstars, we are as plugged in as the audience is. Somehow John Cena is
willing himself.
I learned that from the late Eddie Guerrero.
Give him your.
F 'n best.
Every night.
And if you do Jeff good enough, he'll bring back a friend.
What the hell is John Cena thinking about? We just had fun out there
We trusted each other, and we both knew that we wanted the match and the story
to be great.
Cena climbing to the top.
We threw everything we had at each other, and me surviving those attacks is
never giving up. That's my thing.
But wait a minute, there's a WWE champion, Edge. Edge, with his strength
perseverance, leads me to believe that, like, I'm going to have to do something
crazy to stop this guy. And then when you see what crazy is, you're like, I
don't want to do this.
These guys are about to go toe -to -toe at the top of this ladder.
John wasn't real big on doing it, but I had faith in him.
This was the end of the story. We've got to blow the doors off here.
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
John, don't do this, John!
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
16 -foot ladder.
This is death to find.
Career ending.
Oh, my God!
John, don't do this, John!
The God Almighty!
the two tables from a 16 -foot ladder.
The attitude adjustment through two tables, his idea again, brilliant and
insane. That audience helped make that moment of like, I don't want to do this,
but I can't stop this guy.
I just remember hearing the audience and it was this weird
sensory overload moment like that. I was feeling all of it.
And landing in our house.
We did it.
We did it.
John Cena!
John Cena has won!
He's won!
The sense of relief that you have when you pull off something like that
and pull off what I felt was a fitting end to
that part of the story. John Cena coming into as hostile.
an environment as anybody I could ever recall came and leaving with the most
coveted prize in sports entertainment.
John Cena earned the WWE championship here tonight.
There's his father, a man that was physically assaulted by Edge and Cena's
home.
Here he is all sweaty, all gashed up. He has the belt.
And he just kind of grabbed me and gave me a big hug and said, I can't tell you
how much I love you.
I said, I love you too, kid.
He did one hell of a job.
And we just kind of stood there.
That's a way for me to tell my dad I love him.
To have a child, now a grown man, who just got beat up and bloodied.
Come out and embrace a father and say, Pops, I love you.
Wow.
That just got me right there.
It was the end of a great rivalry.
Walking out after that match.
Toronto way of saying.
You did it.
I'm so glad he enjoyed it because I'd like to think that's maybe kind of where
helped him a little bit. You enjoying this here and now, it doesn't turn me
It doesn't turn him good.
So many performers ignore the biggest superstar we got and that's the people
come in and go crazy.
I'm so, so glad he felt that.
Can't rob yourself of that.
We knew that he was going to be the guy. Nobody dreamed he'd be a 16 -time world
champion, a movie star, and all this different stuff.
But to see that, and to also see Ed, and to see these guys go out and carry that
company for that time, it was just absolutely incredible. And I saw these
journey, and now they're the ones in the sun. It's a pride beyond belief.
All of us, I'm sure, can look back on our careers and remember an opponent
was super special, and you felt that magic, and you think, like, How great
it be to feel that one more time? I can tell you this with 100 % confidence that
Adam would love to do that again with John.
John Cena would never have achieved the heights that he achieved in WWE without
the rivalry with Edge and Lita.
It cemented John Cena as the top attraction in WWE.
And the same goes for Edge.
They complimented each other.
They were the classic case of a rivalry, taking a top star and a top star and
making them both the top stars.
When you have that kind of chemistry and dynamic, I mean, we call each other
shoe because it's like putting on an old shoe.
You fit as comfortable as an old broken -in shoe.
And no matter how many days you have those shoes in your mudroom, when you
to put them on, they feel perfect and broken in and beautiful.
I don't think Cena and Edge get to where they got without each other.
That kind of says, okay, those guys are each other's greatest rivals.
You put him and I in the ring today, I know what it's going to be.
It's going to be...
Great.
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