Edge and Christian Recap Summerslam Main Event, Edge Praises Roman Reigns as a Top Guy, Christian Points Out How Brock Lesnar Not Being on TV Every Week Makes Him Feel Like a Special Attraction

– Edge and Christian recapped Summerslam on their podcast this week. Edge had heavy praise for Roman Reigns as the top guy. Below are some highlights (transcript via WrestlingInc.com).

Edge on Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns: “I know there’s the debate, ‘well, Brock is barely around, he’s part-time, da da da.’ All of that being said, and I get it – I do – I like that the champ is there more often, and the champ works house shows, and it’s better for business, it’s all of those things, but Brock, his matches just feel different, man. As soon as you know a Brock match is coming on, there’s that, ‘oh, s–t! What’s going to happen here?’ You really have a sense of the wheels are going to come off this thing because he’s going to kick them off. You never know which way it’s going to go. It can start off hot and fast and you’re like, ‘well, this thing might end in 20 seconds.’ And then, it keeps going and you can’t help but watch, man. Like, they kicked that thing off with a Superman Punch and it was like, ‘oh, we have another Goldberg deal.’ And then, Braun comes out. I thought it dealt with that very effectively and, I mean, it was entertaining. As much as people want to say this, that, or the other, you’re going to watch when he’s in there. And I do think the right guy won, finally, and I think if you’re going to hitch your cart, you’ve got to do it. And where they go from there, I have no idea. But I thought that was the way to go.”

Christian on the main event:“It was a typical kind of Brock match, that you know is going to be physical; you know it’s going to be hard-hitting; you have that feeling that it could come unhinged at any point in time and go off the rails. That feeling was there, but you know [the match] probably not going to last 30 minutes and that’s what it was here. But do you know what? If you’re going to go out there and have a show like this, it’s probably best to do it that way.”

Christian on how Roman Reigns won: “We talked before about Strowman and maybe this giant monster babyface not necessarily needing the Money In The Bank briefcase. I thought this was a good way to make sense of it, where he’s like, ‘I’ll be waiting here for whoever wins.’ I just think, at this point, with all the things that have gone on with Reigns and Brock, I don’t know. I felt like I would’ve liked to have seen Reigns win clean. He did win clean, but with kind of more [shenanigans]. Right. Yeah, I understand the thought process of it and that sort of thing, but it would’ve been nice to see the guy who I feel deserves it [win clean].”

Edge on why Roman Reigns is so good: “I know [Reigns] gets a lot of [internet hate] like on Twitter when we say, ‘he’s really good. He’s deserving of the spot that he’s in.’ And people are like, ‘no, he’s not!’ You tell the reasons why as a performer as a guy who [has] done this for 20 years, and then, it’s like your opinion is [what it is] because you just don’t like him. You don’t think that he’s good, but trust me, he’s really f–king good in the ring. … There are people who are just like, ‘I don’t want him in that spot.’ And I understand that, but that doesn’t take away from the performer. And I think the workhorse that Vince [McMahon] sees in him too, because Vince is big on that. You’ve got to have someone there who can pull it for a long time.”

Edge on the benefit of Brock Lesnar not being around every week: “I get the people saying, ‘[Lesnar] is not around enough’ and all those things. If Brock were around every week, his matches wouldn’t feel [the way Christian described] because you would get desensitized to the danger and I don’t think people understand that. You always wonder what’s going to happen in a Brock Lesnar match, but if you see Brock every week, it’s not as special.”

Christian on Lesnar being an attraction: “[Lesnar] is one of the very few guys who is an attraction. You feel his presence whether Paul Heyman is there to help out with that or not. His presence is there, but he’s a guy you don’t need to see every single week. And he’s one of the special few performers like that. Like [Edge] said, if you see him every week, the shine wears off, if he became a guy you saw every single week. That’s my opinion. I just think that’s the way you’ve got to use Brock because of what he is.”