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Edge Grateful for Chance to Main-Event ‘WrestleMania’: ‘I’ve Been Pinching Myself for the Past Year’

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Edge on Christian’s return: “We didn’t know for sure that he was going to be in the Rumble until the Friday before”

For the first time since 2008, Edge is going to main-event WrestleMania.

His journey back to pro wrestling has been nothing short of remarkable. Edge (48-year-old Adam Copeland) was forced to retire in 2011 due to severe cervical spinal stenosis. Though he came to terms with never wrestling again, Copeland’s mindset about retirement changed after a fall off his mountain bike.