Despite Bruce Prichard absolutely hating this match (no surprises there), Edge and Mick Foley have a special place for it of their hearts for a wide range of reasons.
For Edge, the proven fact that he was given a taste of what the essential event scene was like, just for it to be taken away throughout the same month of winning his first WWE Championship left him indignant. After years of proving he could hang with one of the best, he felt slighted and shunned with a sense of “I’m adequate to be at the highest, why is that this happening to me?” Due to that, he used this match to make an announcement, that being after WrestleMania 22, WWE would haven’t any alternative but to place to Edge on the earth title picture, and up until his enforced retirement in 2011, that is exactly where he stayed.
The most important achievement for Foley was that he finally had his WrestleMania moment, and it is so fitting that it’s one covered in blood and fire considering what he went through in his profession. It has been said countless times, but Foley at this point in his profession was a master of constructing young guys feel like top stars, especially in these hardcore situations. Triple H’s best work within the Attitude Era was with Cactus Jack, Randy Orton’s breakthrough performance got here against Foley at Backlash 2004 to the purpose where he was World Heavyweight Champion by that 12 months’s SummerSlam, and if you wish to return further, the “I Quit” match with The Rock on the 1999 Royal Rumble cemented “The Great One” as a top tier heel. That is what happened with Edge on this match. Foley went above and beyond to make him appear like the guy who was meant to be within the essential event.
With all that said, it was a match where each men pulled greater than their very own weight, even before they went out to the ring. Foley has revealed that it was actually Edge who pushed for the stipulation to be added, claiming that Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon’s No Holds Barred Match on the identical night almost forced this one to be a straight singles match, or at a push a Steel Cage Match. Considering that we’re 20 years faraway from WrestleMania 22 and it’s Edge and Foley’s match that’s always brought up and never Shawn and Vince’s bout, it’s protected to say that Edge was right in pushing for a bit more violence.
In spite of everything was said and done, each men had a temporary run as a duo, even becoming co-holders of the WWE Hardcore Championship (in name only). That they had one other bloodbath at ECW One Night Stand 2006 together with Lita against Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk, and Beulah. By the tip of the 12 months, Foley’s thirst for a WrestleMania moment was quenched, Edge was a essential event guy, and their WrestleMania 22 horror movie has stood the test of the time.