WWE Raw brought back the nightmares of Edge’s career-threatening injury with a vicious heel-turn of Randy Orton. As seen on last night’s episode of WWE’s flagship show was supposed to host a reunion for the two legendary WWE superstars. But it appeared that Randy Orton went to that sadistic place of his own to deliver an attack on the returnee and sent him straight into the hospital.
WWE Royal Rumble Full Results: January 26, 2020
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As seen on the post-Royal Rumble edition of WWE Raw, Edge returned with a promo session during the main event segment. He talked about getting medically cleared and being in the best physical shape of his life. It was an emotional journey where he gets to do what he was born to do. The Rated R Superstar admitted about the uncertainty about his career’s future but he is back to end his career on his own terms.
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We can't get enough of #RatedRKO.#RAW #EdgeReturns @RandyOrton @EdgeRatedR pic.twitter.com/keunyDbEdv
— WWE (@WWE) January 28, 2020
Randy Orton appeared to interrupt the promo and hugged her former tag team partner teasing a reunion for Team Rated RKO. But it was a ruse only to turn on against the 2012 Hall of Famer. Orton hit Edge with an RKO and brought two chairs into the ring. With one chair placed under the head, he used the other one to hit his neck recreating the con-chair-to move, which Edge made famous back in his heyday.
#RatedRKO? NO.
Just R… K… O.#RAW @RandyOrton pic.twitter.com/1fh8SKiucK
— WWE (@WWE) January 28, 2020
It seems @RandyOrton has gone to that place… #RAW pic.twitter.com/7PakdUyc0l
— WWE (@WWE) January 28, 2020
It was vent out of frustration from Randy Orton whom Edge eliminated during Sunday’s 30-Man Royal Rumble Match after working together earlier in the match. Following the attack, WWE.com provided an update on the returnee stating that he was carried into a medical facility,
“Edge has been taken to a local medical facility following an attack by Randy Orton at the conclusion of Raw, WWE.com has learned. The WWE Hall of Famer, who returned to Raw following an in-ring comeback at the 2020 Royal Rumble event, was celebrating his improbable return from retirement when Orton attacked, targeting Edge’s surgically-repaired neck with several steel-chair strikes.”
EXCLUSIVE: Witness the aftermath of @RandyOrton's shocking attack on @EdgeRatedR on #RAW. pic.twitter.com/xZH26AP4aw
— WWE (@WWE) January 28, 2020
It was a kayfabe setup to get Edge’s neck issues into play to start a storyline with Randy Orton. Most probably, WWE intends to set up a match between these two superstars heading into WrestleMania 36. Or else, this match could also be made official for the Saudi Arabia show on February 27th.
