On 1/16/2022 at 8:13 PM, Tetsujin said:

I've always loved him and think he's painfully underrated by these kind of circles around the IWC. 

Likewise Randy Orton, if there's one WWE guy of the past 20 years that I should watch, it's Edge. On the strenght of only *one* recent thing : re-watching the Edge vs Taker Mania match last year (or the year before ? pandemic has screwed up my perception of time), which not only was a great match and one of my two favorite Taker@Mania matches (alongside Batista's). It was the smartest, most interesting and smartly put together big Mania Taker matches, and it was certainly *not* Taker putting this one together. Considering that the idea that Edge is not good is pretty much one of those "niche of a niche, bubble in a bubble" odd take (let's be real, he's largely considered a great worker otherwise), he probably should deserve a fresh look. Yeah, him and Orton, ironically enough, would probably need it (Cena also, but I've already made my peace with Cena a long time ago).

Yeah totally agree. The Taker rivalry as a whole is stellar, the Mania match is a wonderful Edge performance but the HIAC is wherew they put everye single element from their feud together in a perfectly balanced way. As I said, Edge has always been pretty great at crafting gimmick matches.