Edge has confirmed his match with Sheamus on SmackDown is the final bout on his current contract.
The Hall of Famer, who to the ring in 2020 after nine years out of action due to a life threatening neck injury, is , and it could be the last time fans see him in the ring.
He admitted he ‘truly’ has no idea if he will be retiring after the match, and he’ll need time to process his feelings when he gets backstage.
‘Here’s what I can honestly say, and this isn’t the answer that everybody’s going to want: I truly don’t know. I really, really, with 100% truth can say I don’t know. And that’s strange for me. But I don’t. I really, really don’t,’ he told.
‘I’ve put some thought into it, but not a lot This is the last match on my current contract, so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. I probably won’t know until I get to the locker room that night and just decompress.’
Going into what will be an emotional match in Toronto, the Rated R Superstar admitted he his feeling ‘the anxiety and tension’ he ‘never used to have’.
‘I’m going to be 50 in October. You know, it’s not easy anymore’ he said. ‘Before, what I used to just take for granted to be able to do, now there’s a process and there’s a fallout.
‘There’s a lot, you know? And it’s the dream gig, but again, it’s getting really hard. So I don’t know. That’s the most honest answer I can come up with.’
However, he did acknowledge that once he retires for a second time – whether that’s this week or next year – he will be ‘done’.
‘That will be it. There’s no coming back after this one,’ he insisted, noting that he’s glad to be able to ‘write his own ending this time’, with this week’s match also marking his 25th anniversary, while his wife and fellow WWE Hall of Famer Beth Phoenix will be in attendance with their daughters, his childhood friends and longtime trainer.
‘It’s truly one of those deals that, as cliche as it sounds, [feels] like this is the last scene in a movie. You know, one of those feel-good movies,’ he admitted. ‘And it just seems so surreal that I’m living it. I don’t look past it. I truly understand what this is. And, man, it still kind of blows my mind.’
WWE SmackDown airs Friday nights at 1am on TNT Sports 1.
