WWE: Edge's 'civil rights' promo goes viral & is still utterly bonkers 15 years later

Edge, during the height of his first run with WWE in 2007, cut one of the most bonkers promos ever seen on Monday Night Raw.

A&E released a recent show looking at the relationship between John Cena and Edge, with videos from the pair’s iconic feud starting to circulate online.

And one of the clips features possibly one of the most bonkers promos that has ever been cut on a WWE show.

WWE was headed to Arizona for Monday Night Raw in 2007, with Edge mixing it up with John Cena as the main event feud at the time.

Edge spoke about how he wanted to face Cena, but couldn’t do so because he was a massive “civil rights activist”, and Arizona was one of the last states to recognise ‘Martin Luther King Day’.

Edge said that being Canadian, he’s colour blind, so he refused to perform in front of the “bigots” in Arizona, as you can see below.

This promo by Edge…man I wonder who approved these things pic.twitter.com/JsGJUPwLtb

Things got even weirder when Edge turned to Johnny Nitro (John Morrison), saying that his Great Great Grandmother just so happened to be black and subsequently demanded” to face Cena.

Below is a complete transcript of the promo from Edge, which even 15 years later, still makes for some truly wild reading.

“Cena, I am so ready to kick the hell out of you right now. But I’m also a huge civil rights activist and Arizona happens to be one of the last states that recognised ‘Martin Luther King Day’. I’m Canadian, I’;m colour blind, so I can’t perform in front of these bigots. Unfortunately for you, Johnny Nitro’s Great Great Grandmother happens to be black, and he demanded to beat you down tonight. Go get him, Nitro. Go get him.“

As noted, the clip of the infamous promo has been doing the rounds on social media once