At WrestleMania 38, Damian Priest aligned himself with Edge as The Judgment Day began to take shape.
The group would soon be joined by Rhea Ripley and cause chaos on WWE Raw, engaging in a feud with AJ Styles, Finn Balor, and Liv Morgan.
Balor would join the group following WWE Hell in a Cell, but in a twist, the trio would turn against Edge. Dominik Mysterio ended up joining the group after WWE Clash at the Castle.
Speaking on WWE After The Bell, Edge discussed the success of Judgment Day and how things changed without him.
"It's turned into something entirely different, and better, quite honestly. Where it's at now is the goal I had in mind. I really thought the concept of The Judgment Day, the idea behind it was, 'here are these talented individuals who I truly felt weren't getting the opportunity that they deserved, and if they got that opportunity, they could fly with it.' I had been watching them all since NXT and kind of kept tabs on them and kept my eye on them all these years. When I was asked about starting a group, and was asked who would be in it, the first names I said were Priest, Ripley, Balor. It changed and morphed and went through a lot of different permutations," he said.
When asked if he thought Judgment Day would be where they are now, Edge replied, "I honestly thought we would maybe get to this part of the story, now. You have to make due and figure it out. Thankfully, they were given the reigns to take this in a different direction, an entirely different direction than it would have with Edge at the helm because with Edge at the helm, it's swimming upstream because we're trying to get an audience to turn on a character, but they know the backstory of this character, they know the real life story, they know Adam's story, so it's like, 'We don't want to hate this guy because he fought back for something that he wanted back. He's also doing something that no one has ever done before. He's wrestling with a triple fusion in his neck.' No one has ever done that. It can be hard to hate that. I was trying. I was trying every old school heel trick in the book. It just wasn't going to work. It might have, eventually, with more time, but it would have taken a lot more work. Thankfully, all four of them, with the addition of Dom, have taken this thing in completely different directions. They're more themselves, and when you can be more yourself, chances are it's going to work because you're going to inject the actual person behind the character with some reality, truths, and actual interests in a way you would actually speak."
Rhea Ripley recently discussed how much freedom Judgment Day has in their promos. You can find her full comments by clicking here.
The rivalry between Edge and Judgment Day will continue when Edge clashes with Finn Balor inside Hell in a Cell at WrestleMania 39. Fans can check out the updated lineup for WrestleMania 39 by clicking here.
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