WWE Legend Edge On Whether He Will Retire At SmackDown In Toronto: ‘I Truly Don’t Know’

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Will WWE icon Edge retire this Friday? The Rated-R Superstar says he’s still mulling it over. There’s been rampant speculation that the Canadian wrestler, born Adam Copeland, will hang up his tights after Friday’s SmackDown show in his hometown of Toronto when he squares off against Sheamus.  READ MORE: Chris Jericho Was About To Quit Wrestling Before Joining AEW: ‘I Was Already Thinking About Doing Other Things’ Edge’s longtime trainer, Ron Hutchinson, said the bout — being billed by WWE as Edge’s “25th anniversary special” — will be his “last match,” reports veteran wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer, as per WrestlingNews.

Speaking this week with ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante, Edge revealed that while Friday’s match will in fact be the last match on his current contract, he isn’t entirely sure whether it’ll be the final match of his career. “Here’s what I can honestly say, and this isn’t the answer that everybody’s going to want: I truly don’t know,” he said. “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. 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.” Adding that he’s feeling “the anxiety and tension that I never used to have” ahead of Friday’s match, Edge admitted that stepping in the squared circle has been getting harder thanks to Father Time. “I’m going to be 50 in October.