WWE Snap's Rewind's One of the Past And Best Memories of WWE History,
At
New Year's Revolution, on January 8, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon
appeared on stage and declared that WWE Champion John Cena had to defend
the WWE Championship against Edge who was cashing in his Money In The
Bank contract. This was right after Cena had retained the WWE
Championship in a grueling Elimination Chamber match. Edge defeated Cena
in less than two minutes after two spears to become WWE Champion for
the first time.
The
"Live Sex Celebration" segment earned Raw a 5.2 rating, the highest Raw
ratings in over a year, leading Edge to call himself the "most watched
champion ever." However, despite the huge ratings Edge drew, three weeks
later, at the Royal Rumble, Edge lost the WWE Championship back to
Cena.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the story is that the "Live Sex
Celebration" was something that neither Edge or Lita were especially
comfortable with according to some new reports. However, it should be
noted that there are no indications that either of them put up any kind
of resistance to going forward with the segment.
What most likely caused all the tension and problems with the segment was the fact that Edge (Adam Copeland) had just recently reconciled with his wife at the time. The worst part being that Edge had cheated on this wife with Lita (Amy Dumas) early that year. So watching them having sex in the ring must have caused some issues for Edge and his wife, especially after a very public breakup where she accused Edge of taking steroids. They had only recently started to work things out and I'm sure this did not help.
Many people close to the situation both in WWE and close friends had stated that the relationship between Edge and Lita never fully worked out because of the stress that took place after it was made public all over the internet. The combination of Matt Hardy making the story public, getting released by WWE (which did bother Lita) and the "whispering" in the workplace every week caused the relationship to not last very long.
It
is no secret that Lita has a reputation for being a very private
person. One WWE source said at the time, "(Lita) knows she's got a great
character who can be a successful heel for a long time to come. The
problem is, to cash in she has to play into being a slut, and so she has
mixed emotions about it." That was made pretty clear considering that
Lita retired from the WWE saying that she could not take the constant
insults from the audience.
Meanwhile, Edge appeared to be more willing to go along with the more "raunchy angles" and do whatever he was told. "(Edge) will do whatever is asked of him," said a close friend of Edge. "He's not the type to put up a stink about it. But he had to limit how far they went with it, so they found a happy medium to keep the company happy." Obviously this continued to be true for the rest of Edge's career because he did one sleazy storyline after another, basically doing whatever it took to win the WWE/World Championships over and over, until his career was cut short due to his neck injury.
Still,
his first title reign will always be remember because of the live sex
celebration with Lita that followed. No WWE Champion has ever or will
ever top that celebration or do anything that extreme in a WWE ring
every again I'm sure. Therefore, Edge and Lita will always go down in
wrestling history as the most Extreme and Hardcore couple in wrestling
history. Lita earned the nickname "Slut" while Edge earned the nickname
"The Rated-R Superstar" and their sex segment, while never re-shown,
will clearly never be forgotten by wrestling fans!
Off-screen, Lita (Amy Dumas) had been involved with Matt Hardy
romantically, but began a relationship with Edge (Adam Copeland). WWE
then began to use the real-life issues between the three as an
on-screen storyline. In April, Hardy was released from WWE, only to be
rehired several months later. Lita continued to act as Edge's valet,
and Edge defeated Hardy at SummerSlam. On the October 3 episode of Raw,
Edge, with the assistance of Lita, defeated Hardy in a ladder match,
and Hardy was obligated to leave Raw as a stipulation of the match.
At
New Year's Revolution, on January 8, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon
appeared on stage and declared that WWE Champion John Cena had to defend
the WWE Championship against Edge who was cashing in his Money In The
Bank contract. This was right after Cena had retained the WWE
Championship in a grueling Elimination Chamber match. Edge defeated Cena
in less than two minutes after two spears to become WWE Champion for
the first time.
In an interview conducted after the event, on WWE.com, Edge announced
that he and Lita would have "hot, unbridled, sex" in the middle of the
ring on Raw the following night to celebrate his victory. On Raw, Edge
held up to that promise. During the segment, Lita and Edge stripped to
their underwear before retreating beneath the covers of a bed that had
been erected in the ring. Lita's bare breast was momentarily shown during the segment.
They were interrupted by Flair, who called Edge a disgrace and "that
he was horrible in the sack." Flair, however, ended up on the receiving
end of a con-chair-to on the announcers' table until Cena came out to
Flair's aid and performed an FU on Lita.
The
"Live Sex Celebration" segment earned Raw a 5.2 rating, the highest Raw
ratings in over a year, leading Edge to call himself the "most watched
champion ever." However, despite the huge ratings Edge drew, three weeks
later, at the Royal Rumble, Edge lost the WWE Championship back to
Cena.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the story is that the "Live Sex
Celebration" was something that neither Edge or Lita were especially
comfortable with according to some new reports. However, it should be
noted that there are no indications that either of them put up any kind
of resistance to going forward with the segment.What most likely caused all the tension and problems with the segment was the fact that Edge (Adam Copeland) had just recently reconciled with his wife at the time. The worst part being that Edge had cheated on this wife with Lita (Amy Dumas) early that year. So watching them having sex in the ring must have caused some issues for Edge and his wife, especially after a very public breakup where she accused Edge of taking steroids. They had only recently started to work things out and I'm sure this did not help.
Many people close to the situation both in WWE and close friends had stated that the relationship between Edge and Lita never fully worked out because of the stress that took place after it was made public all over the internet. The combination of Matt Hardy making the story public, getting released by WWE (which did bother Lita) and the "whispering" in the workplace every week caused the relationship to not last very long.
It
is no secret that Lita has a reputation for being a very private
person. One WWE source said at the time, "(Lita) knows she's got a great
character who can be a successful heel for a long time to come. The
problem is, to cash in she has to play into being a slut, and so she has
mixed emotions about it." That was made pretty clear considering that
Lita retired from the WWE saying that she could not take the constant
insults from the audience. Meanwhile, Edge appeared to be more willing to go along with the more "raunchy angles" and do whatever he was told. "(Edge) will do whatever is asked of him," said a close friend of Edge. "He's not the type to put up a stink about it. But he had to limit how far they went with it, so they found a happy medium to keep the company happy." Obviously this continued to be true for the rest of Edge's career because he did one sleazy storyline after another, basically doing whatever it took to win the WWE/World Championships over and over, until his career was cut short due to his neck injury.
Still,
his first title reign will always be remember because of the live sex
celebration with Lita that followed. No WWE Champion has ever or will
ever top that celebration or do anything that extreme in a WWE ring
every again I'm sure. Therefore, Edge and Lita will always go down in
wrestling history as the most Extreme and Hardcore couple in wrestling
history. Lita earned the nickname "Slut" while Edge earned the nickname
"The Rated-R Superstar" and their sex segment, while never re-shown,
will clearly never be forgotten by wrestling fans!PICTURES OF EDGE AND LITA IN THE RING
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