On a recent episode of E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness, Edge shared some insight into his Hell in a Cell match against the Undertaker at Summerslam (2008).
According to Edge, Vince told him and the Undertaker that they were not allowed to use ‘color’ (blood) in the match. This was something that Edge was extremely disappointed with when he was first told the news:
“For me, I would say that Hell In A Cell… I remember going into that, and a little story about that Hell In A Cell, we got from Vince the edict that day that there would be no color in that match and I had put together this whole thing in my head that involved color and also involved me taking a chokeslam through the panel, through two tables, this whole thing. I know I have this written down somewhere. And it wasn’t going to work and color wasn’t going to work. And I’m mad. And I remember saying to Vince that day, ‘this is the most disappointed I’ve ever been in a decision that I’ve had to try and make do with, I guess, in this company’ because I really was. I thought, ‘this is the culmination of a year-and-a-half angle. There has to be that. There has to be color.'”
Edge says that he thinks Vince was right in hindsight and it became a challenge to try and put on a great Hell in a Cell match without using blood:
“I wasn’t thinking further down the road or the big picture, all of the things Vince has to think about, and in hindsight he was right. He was right and what he said that day was completely right. He said, ‘I trust you two to set the template for what a Hell In A Cell will be going forward’ and I was like, ‘oh, well s–t.’ What do you say to that? There’s the challenge. Alright, so the challenge is, we’ve got to figure out a way to do this then, and I think we did. It still got in the story I wanted to get across. It was fun to try, and, at that point in time, to Vince’s point, set the template for what a Hell In A Cell would become. Yep, [the match was what McMahon wanted]. Yep, yep, [the feedback] was, ‘that’s exactly what it can be going forward.’ It doesn’t have to be gory. It doesn’t have to involve bumps off the top of the cage. The challenge was, ‘you’re good enough to do it without all that stuff.’ And I was just mad at first and once I wrapped my mind around that, it was like, ‘alright, cool, I love challenges.'”
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