{"id":143228,"date":"2022-07-21T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=143228"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:18:50","slug":"edge-reportedly-will-use-old-gimmick-upon-return-to-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/21\/edge-reportedly-will-use-old-gimmick-upon-return-to-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge reportedly will use old gimmick upon return to WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1270227890\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>WWE Hall of Famer and former world champion, Edge, is reportedly going back to his Rated-R Superstar gimmick upon his return to the company.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Alvarez is reporting that Edge will return with the old gimmick and that Rated-R Superstar merchandise has already been made. Reports indicate that Edge will return to WWE next week on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/18\/7-4-wwe-monday-night-raw-results-kellers-report-on-titus-oneals-introduction-belair-vs-carmella-logan-paul-appears-on-raw\/\">Monday Night Raw<\/a> inside Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Edge has been sidelined after his group, The Judgement Day, consisting of Finn Balor, Damian Priest &amp; Rhea Ripley, turned on him and left him laying in the ring after an attack that included a Conchairto. He has not bee seen on WWE television since then.<\/p>\n<p>The Rated-R Superstar act is central to Edge&#8217;s rise in WWE and was the gimmick he used for his run at the top of the company as world champion in which he main-evented WrestleMania against The Undertaker.<\/p>\n<p>Edge came back to pro wrestling after being retired for nine years with a neck injury. He returned to the WWE at the 2020 Royal Rumble. He entered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\">WWE<\/a> Hall of Fame in 2012.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/20\/montez-ford-talks-bianca-belairs-success-and-getting-a-run-as-a-singles-star\/\">Montez Ford talks Bianca Belair\u2019s success and getting a run as a singles star<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2576404044\"><div id=\"pwtor-319969270\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WWE Hall of Famer and former world champion, Edge, is reportedly going back to his Rated-R Superstar gimmick upon his return to the company. Bryan Alvarez is reporting that Edge will return with the old <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/21\/edge-reportedly-will-use-old-gimmick-upon-return-to-wwe\/\" title=\"Edge reportedly will use old gimmick upon return to WWE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":94423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1411,240,96,71],"class_list":["post-143228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-edge","tag-monday-night-raw","tag-raw","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-09-at-3.45.30-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143229,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143228\/revisions\/143229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}