Edge Discusses Giving Advice To Younger Talent, Spoke With Carmelo Hayes And Mustafa Ali At WWE Raw

Edge likes giving back to the locker room. 

Edge is a veteran presence in the locker room, who has been through all the trials and tribulations of a WWE superstar. Since returning to the ring in 2020, Edge has worked with the likes of Seth Rollins, Damian Priest, The Miz, Finn Balor, and more. 

Speaking on WWE After The Bell, Edge discussed being a mentor in the locker room and having a long conversation with Carmelo Hayes and Mustafa Ali at WWE Raw. 

“This is my first love, always has been, always will be. I love acting, not as much as I love being a wrestler and performing for WWE. For whatever reason, you can’t really explain it. It’s just there and you’re hooked. After nine years, to get it back. I had a list of guys that I was like, ‘I would love to work with some of these people, and if I can help some people along the way,’ to push the future forward. I’ve been able to check off a lot of those names on the list, and a lot of those names don’t need my help, but if they can pick up something, great. More than anything, I feel the mentorship in the locker room. The locker room knows that I am a safe guy to go to, to pick my brain. I’m not sequestered to my own locker room. I change with everybody else. I put myself out there to say, ‘if you’re thinking of something, just come ask me.’ Whether you want to try it after you ask, that’s up to you. Sitting there the other day with Carmelo (Hayes) and (Mustafa) Ali, we sat and talked for an hour and they just picked my brain. I loved it. It was so much fun and so nice, to see these guys at that stage of their careers. I remember being at that stage and being oblivious as to what to do. How do I make this work here? I could wrestle and do moves, but that’s not going to cut it. What is it that I need to do? The environment was a little different then. The locker room was a bunch of great whites. It forced you to figure it out, but I feel like, why not try to give some helping hands?” Edge said. 

Edge noted that he’s wrestled four generations of WWE stars as he wrestled the old guard when he first entered WWE, the stars of the Attitude Era, and then the stars of the Ruthless Aggression era before settling into working with the current generation. 

On Monday’s WWE Raw, Edge challenged Finn Balor to meet him on the March 13 episode of Raw.

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