5 Times Edge Made History in WWE

Edge has accomplished plenty throughout his WWE career. From Hall of Famer to World Champion, there’s not much left for him to do in the WWE. After his return at the 2020 Royal Rumble, fans were given a rare opportunity to watch him inside a wrestling ring again after an untimely retirement. It gave him something wrestlers only dream of: a second chance; a second chance to go out on his own terms.

Edge is still making history in his second run in the WWE, as he’s still a fan favorite due to his connection to years past and his obvious skill inside of the ring. From main-eventing WrestleMania, to having “The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever” with Randy Orton, Edge is still setting records and accomplishing plenty. We can only hope that he doesn’t slow down anytime soon.

With still so much on the horizon for Edge, we’re going to take a look back at five times that Edge made history:

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#5 Edge & Christian made Tag Team history alongside the Hardy Boyz

Alongside friend/brother Christian, Edge faced off against Matt and Jeff Hardy in the first-ever tag team ladder match. The ladder match, oddly enough, wasn’t for any title or championship, it was the culmination of the Terri Invitational Tournament. The winner of the tournament would receive $100,000 and Terri’s managerial services.

Just like how Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon made history four years prior with the first ever ladder match on WWE pay-per-view, Edge and Christian fought The Hardy Boyz in an outstanding affair to create a tag team classic. They proved that the ladder match was the domain for multi-man matches.

Edge and Christian would lose, but winners and losers didn’t matter in that match, because it was so good that it elevated all of the performers together. All four men would go on to have long and successful careers after this match.

#4 Edge is a record-setting World Heavyweight Champion

Move over Booker T, because under the WWE umbrella, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship a record seven times. Once the big gold belt was taken in by the WWE with the purchase of WCW in 2001, they turned it into an official world championship a year later. Edge would eventually take claim of this title.

The belt may have been synonymous at first with Triple H. However, Edge would win the big gold belt in WWE so often that it is hard to picture the title without it being around the waist of Edge.

He also won the WWE Championship four times, bringing his total number of world titles up to eleven.

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#3 Edge competes in the first ever TLC Match

Edge, once again with Christian, competed in the first-ever TLC match. E&C fought against The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz in a triple threat TLC match for the then-WWF tag team championships. After a near-20-minute bout, Edge and Christian retained the tag belts in an all-out war.

The match type came to be since the Hardy Boyz were synonymous with ladders, The Dudleys with tables, and Edge & Christian with chairs. This match would later be the inspiration for many other similar stipulation matches in order to keep upping the stakes with more death-defying spots.

#2 Edge Wins the 'other' Triple Crown

Edge was the first wrestler to accomplish all three of the following: win a Royal Rumble match, win a King of the Ring tournament, and become Mr. Money in the Bank. These are three accomplishments not often grouped together by the WWE or even by fans, but are still highly prestigious in their own right.

Only three wrestlers have achieved this feat, Edge, Sheamus, and finally Brock Lesnar; those are some impressive people to be in the company of. The Ultimate Opportunist is the first person to accomplish this often-unknown feat, but it’s still a very impressive one.

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#1 Edge is the first ever Money in the Bank Winner

At WrestleMania 21, Edge competed against five other men in the inaugural Money in the Bank ladder match. As is common knowledge now, the winner of the match gets a contract for a world title match anytime, anywhere.

By using his ladder match acumen to win the match, Edge was able to set a precedent for how to utilize that contract. Some theorized that Mr. Money in the Bank should set up the match in advance.

However, he surprised everyone by cashing in on a wounded John Cena at New Year’s Revolution in 2006. Edge made history by being the first person to cash in the Money in the Bank contract to win his first world championship.