Damian Priest Thought WWE Was Going To Release Him After Edge Was Kicked Out Of Judgment Day
Damian Priest thought his time with WWE was over.
It all began at WrestleMania 38 when Damian Priest helped Edge (Now known as Adam Copeland) defeat AJ Styles before Rhea Ripley helped a month later to form the Judgement Day. The group with Edge as a leader only lasted two months before Priest and Ripley welcomed Finn Balor by attacking Edge before kicking him out of the group.
In an interview with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated, Priest spoke about how he felt that was the end of the Judgement Day at first and how he thought he was going to be released by the WWE soon after.
“We’d just had a major moment joining together forming The Judgment Day. It felt like no time had passed, and then it was Edge who told me that he was being taken out of the group. He waited to tell me after TV one night when we were on the road. I thought we were done. I was so upset. When Rhea found out, she was even more mad than me.
“Edge was mad, too. I still speak with him–he was one of our biggest backers. When he told me, I remember him saying, ‘All of this, for nothing.’ And I repeated that–for nothing. That’s the way it felt at the time. I was waiting for the phone call to get released. Obviously, it worked out a lot differently.”
Judgment Day would soon become one of the best groups in the WWE for the next two years before splitting up after Balor and Dominik Mysterio turned their backs on Ripley and Priest. A full circle for all four.
h/t to Fightful for the transcription.
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