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‘Nowhere to go’ – Massive WrestleMania technical fault in Undertaker match left star fearing traumatic injury
Many a wrestler has feared for their safety or health during the cut and thrust of working a match. Such is the high intensity involved in wrestling bouts, injuries are commonplace despite the predetermined and storyline nature of the business in general. Edge remains a top performer in the wrestling industry after breaking through in WWE in the Attitude EraInstagram @ratedrcope The stories may not be ‘real’ and the outcomes might well be known, but the toll taken on the bodies of those involved is mighty. What is likely less rare is a performer is feeling terrified for their wellbeing while not being in a match – or even a ring. That was the scary fate that temporarily befell WWE legend Edge – still wrestling today as AEW star Cope – during the Attitude Era. Edge enjoyed a Hall of Fame career with WWE, going from relatively modest beginnings to winning titles and accolades aplenty before and after his enforced retirement. It might have turned out very differently indeed had he not escaped very real danger at WrestleMania in 15 1999. The Canadian wasn’t event wrestling at the show, but played a ghoulish part in one of its more controversial bouts – the Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and the Big Boss Man. Undertaker had been portraying a near satanic version of his character at the time and, at the conclusion of the bloody affair, signalled to the heavens of the arena. Then arriving on the scene – from the rafters in harnesses – were Edge, Christian and Gangrel, effectively in the role of Taker’s henchmen at the time. In a scene that has since been edited out of some subsequent releases of that WWE WrestleMania, they threaded a noose through the roof of the Cell, from which the Bossman was then ‘hanged.’ He was perfectly safe, of course, the thanks to a harness of his own, but the visual of the moment left a lasting impression – not that Edge was able to focus on it, or much of what came before. The Undertaker called for assistance from aboveWWE Edge (right) played their part from on top of the roofWWE In his autobiography he explained the unease of it all, saying: “It sounded like a good idea until we had to make our way up to the rafters at the top of the building. “I don’t have much of a problem with heights, but this was high, really high. “The people below looked very tiny. We were put into harnesses that would be lowered by a motor. “The match was well under way when we had to step backward off the rafter and let the harness catch. Not a good feeling. “We hung there above the crowd in the rafters in anticipation of our moment to strike. After what felt like a decade, it was time. We were slowly lowered down past the huge Philadelphia Flyers scoreboard, down to the cage.” So far, so good-ish, for an unsteady Edge. He went on to pen that the trio did their ‘business’ at the tail end of the match – fans seemingly none the wiser as to the strife he was about to find himself in as the Cell began to raise with the camera focused on the Bossman. Trouble began when the Cell began moving while Edge (front right) was still dangling above itWWE He added: “We clipped back into our harnesses and started to get raised back up to the rafters. “Everything was going fine until I came to a dead stop. Gangrel and [Christian] were already almost to the top but I was not moving. To make matters worse the cage was now being raised up toward my feet. I had nowhere to go. “[I] was swinging above the cage still in full view of the crowd. As the cage got uncomfortably close my pulley was jerked upward – fast. Too fast.” The motor raising the trio of bustling wrestlers had apparently ‘blown’ under the weight of the assignment, technicians able to fix it in the absolute nick of time. “I was still swinging and now spinning toward the scoreboard,” noted the now 51-year-old. “Luckily, I saw it coming and braced myself. I bounced off of it twice, but I was finally clear and quickly heading for a showdown with the rafter that I was sure to lose. The Undertaker did his deed below seemingly unaware of what was unfolding above his headWWE “Thankfully, they slowed me down before I hit it and they pulled me back to safety. I got the hell out of there and have not been on a rafter since.” As fellow Attitude Era icon Mick Foley can attest, the perils of Hell in a Cell are best known in it, and sometimes off the top of it – but Edge’s experience was very nearly something different altogether. 26 years later, he remains a top performer in AEW as a two-time TNT Champion.
Many a wrestler has feared for their safety or health during the cut and thrust of working a match.
Such is the high intensity involved in wrestling bouts, injuries are commonplace despite the predetermined and storyline nature of the business in general.
The stories may not be ‘real’ and the outcomes might well be known, but the toll taken on the bodies of those involved is mighty.
What is likely less rare is a performer is feeling terrified for their wellbeing while not being in a match – or even a ring.
That was the scary fate that temporarily befell WWE legend Edge – still wrestling today as AEW star Cope – during the Attitude Era.
Edge enjoyed a Hall of Fame career with WWE, going from relatively modest beginnings to winning titles and accolades aplenty before and after his enforced retirement.
It might have turned out very differently indeed had he not escaped very real danger at WrestleMania in 15 1999.
The Canadian wasn’t event wrestling at the show, but played a ghoulish part in one of its more controversial bouts – the Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and the Big Boss Man.
Undertaker had been portraying a near satanic version of his character at the time and, at the conclusion of the bloody affair, signalled to the heavens of the arena.
Then arriving on the scene – from the rafters in harnesses – were Edge, Christian and Gangrel, effectively in the role of Taker’s henchmen at the time.
In a scene that has since been edited out of some subsequent releases of that WWE WrestleMania, they threaded a noose through the roof of the Cell, from which the Bossman was then ‘hanged.’
He was perfectly safe, of course, the thanks to a harness of his own, but the visual of the moment left a lasting impression – not that Edge was able to focus on it, or much of what came before.
In his autobiography he explained the unease of it all, saying: “It sounded like a good idea until we had to make our way up to the rafters at the top of the building.
“I don’t have much of a problem with heights, but this was high, really high.
“The people below looked very tiny. We were put into harnesses that would be lowered by a motor.
“The match was well under way when we had to step backward off the rafter and let the harness catch. Not a good feeling.
“We hung there above the crowd in the rafters in anticipation of our moment to strike. After what felt like a decade, it was time. We were slowly lowered down past the huge Philadelphia Flyers scoreboard, down to the cage.”
So far, so good-ish, for an unsteady Edge. He went on to pen that the trio did their ‘business’ at the tail end of the match – fans seemingly none the wiser as to the strife he was about to find himself in as the Cell began to raise with the camera focused on the Bossman.
He added: “We clipped back into our harnesses and started to get raised back up to the rafters.
“Everything was going fine until I came to a dead stop. Gangrel and [Christian] were already almost to the top but I was not moving. To make matters worse the cage was now being raised up toward my feet. I had nowhere to go.
“[I] was swinging above the cage still in full view of the crowd. As the cage got uncomfortably close my pulley was jerked upward – fast. Too fast.”
The motor raising the trio of bustling wrestlers had apparently ‘blown’ under the weight of the assignment, technicians able to fix it in the absolute nick of time.
“I was still swinging and now spinning toward the scoreboard,” noted the now 51-year-old.
“Luckily, I saw it coming and braced myself. I bounced off of it twice, but I was finally clear and quickly heading for a showdown with the rafter that I was sure to lose.
“Thankfully, they slowed me down before I hit it and they pulled me back to safety. I got the hell out of there and have not been on a rafter since.”
As fellow Attitude Era icon Mick Foley can attest, the perils of Hell in a Cell are best known in it, and sometimes off the top of it – but Edge’s experience was very nearly something different altogether.
26 years later, he remains a top performer in AEW as a two-time TNT Champion.
