>>17489818Edge was literally The Chosen One since the minute he signed his contract. Vince was obsessed with the male body and I think assumed it accounted for at least 50 percent of all viewership and ticket sales. He thought Edge had the look of the future. There’s dozens of stories about how Edge got discovered, the shit they did to keep him on track and get him used to life on the road. They gave his no dimes BFF a contract, they hired Gangrel be his mentor on the road and teach him to live basically. They hired Val Venis because Edge was fucking his sister. There was a lot of time and investment put into him and I believe he signed an extremely long term mark contract. Like Mark Henry length but not nearly the cash. If they could turn him into a homegrown star it would be like having an MVP QB on a favorable 10 year rookie scale contract. They did little penny ante shit like pay off his student loans before he had a contract, bought him his first car. More and more important at that time because they were going up against WCW and unlimited funding and in the days before they went public and Vince became a billionaire.
Why they gave him a vampire hunter gimmick and then kept the name and look, who the fuck knows? I guess it was better than being Max Moon.
