Edge could have helped TNA Wrestling if he went ahead with this move.

Edge will go down in the history as one of the greatest Superstars in the history of the sports entertainment company. Edge started working in the professional wrestling business in the 1990s and competed in singles and tag team competition, the latter with long-time friend Christian in various independent promotions.

He signed a developmental deal with the WWE in 1997 began competing for the company later that year. He would make televised debut the following June under the ring name Edge. Fast forward to July of 1999, won the WWE Intercontinental Championship at a house show in Toronto. WWE billed Edge and Christian as brothers and later childhood friends in storylines. They would win the WWE Tag Team Championship on seven different occasions. During this time, they gained notoriety in the tag team division.

Make no mistake about, Edge is one of the most decorated professional wrestlers of all-time due to him winning 31 championships in WWE during his career. Let’s break it down. He won the WWE Championship four times, the World Heavyweight Championship a record seven times, the Intercontinental Championship five times, the United States Championship once, the WWE Tag Team Championship twice, and the WWF/World Tag Team Championship a record twelve times.

The accolades for him include being the first Money in the Bank ladder match winner in 2005, and won the Royal Rumble match in 2010, making him the first wrestler in history to achieve all three of those accomplishments. The former WWE Champion was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Christian in 2012.

During a recent episode of E&C's Pod Of Awesomeness, Edge and Christian talked about various topics including Christian's WWE departure in 2005 while Edge revealed that he was in talks with TNA Wrestling in 2008 or 2009. Here is what he had to say (transcript courtesy of Wrestling Inc)

"Also [going elsewhere helps to] prove that you can do that, even if it's on a smaller stage, that you can carry a show, a main event type match. You can get some buzz about you. You can step up your promos. You can almost even branch out a little bit kind of as far as being your own character, in a way. Do you know what I mean? Like, there [are] not as many parameters on the things that you can say and do. Sometimes, that helps people develop as well. They can kind of find themselves and what works for them a little bit easier in that sense too and I found that when I walked away as well."

Edge mentioned that TNA reached out to him when his WWE contract was ending around 2008 or 2009.

"Interesting little tidbit here that I don't even know how much [Christian] know[s], if [Christian] even know at all, to be honest. I don't recall talking to [Christian] about it. I don't know how word gets out on contracts being up and things like that, but there was one point where my contract was coming up and TNA reached out to me, and [Christian was] there, so they reached out to me, and they told me numbers, and schedule, and all of these things. And for me, at that point, schedule was the thing that I was like, 'well, that'd be a whole lot easier on the body' because I was getting pretty beat up. It's like [Christian] said, I started with WWE in '97. At that point it was like 2008 or 2009. I can't even remember. It's a long time. Now, there [were] breaks because of injuries, but that was my body saying, 'take a break dude,' and I never did until something broke."

"The idea that [Christian was] there, and the opponents. If I went there, there's [Samoa] Joe, there's AJ [Styles], there's a lot of fresh things to do, but for whatever reason, from day one WWE felt like my home. It felt like the place that I'd always wanted to get to. I did those two TV matches in WCW against Kevin Sullivan and Meng and within five minutes of walking into that locker room I was like, 'I don't want to be here - I could tell this is not the place for me.' And the dream was still WWF and getting there.

"And then, finally seeing the inner workings and then working into a position where I was one of the main event guys and I was factored in, it just felt like they did put that faith in me, that they did pull the trigger with me for whatever reason they did and I felt like I can't look that gift horse in the mouth. And sure, there was work involved, but 'I got to stick it out here and I got to stay here. I just want my career to be here and nowhere else.' But for [Christian], I do believe that was definitely the right thing to do."