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What Future Generations Can Learn from The Attitude Era's Experiences and Injuries:
"Well I think it has hopefully been learned already. I think it was kind of learned once you got to the era of Brock and Kurt and me and Ray and things like that, because then it just became, "Okay, there was too many German (suplexes)." But once that kind of phase passed through, then it was more about the story telling as opposed to just big stunts. Now, I don't think it's just one guy or one team that is depended on to do ladder matches. Now if there's Money in the Bank ladder match, there's usually a whole different prop of guys that are in them. So you can kind of spread the wealth a little bit. And also too, as much as I'm not a fan of two money in the bank matches in one night, there is less ladder matches now, there are less TLC matches, there are - by branding the pay-per-views, the TLC pay-per-view or Money in the Bank pay-per-view, I think it's made for less of them, which obviously takes away a lot of the risk. Because with repletion, there's only so long your body can do it and I'm proof positive of that. I was in 19 ladder matches. I mean that's just - the body's not supposed to do that. So thankfully now that I'm not getting thrown around, the neck's not bothering me as much. Obviously I know if I know if I took a bump tomorrow it's going to start bothering me that way again. So it's not an option. But I don't look back and really regret anything. It was just part of my path to get to where I was. But I'd like to think, the Dolph Ziggler and Kofis and things like that, if you watch what they're doing, they're having good matches without a lot of the huge risks that we used to take. They still do flashy things but they're not as - I mean any time you can have permanent injury in there but the - there's less of a risk of that. Ziggler bumps amazingly, but they're still in a somewhat controlled context.
When He Still Feels It, Injury-wise:
"I think it's just sitting on the plane and not being able to really move. Whether you're first class - or the commuter planes are obviously worse because at some point it's always the two biggest guys that end up in the exit row of seats. So you're sitting there like lying all over each other kind of thing. But I think it's just a matter of if my head's in a certain position and you're on a plane, you can't really like, for me and with a bad neck, you can't find a good position. And now I'm at the point that I've tailored my workouts around the neck, so that doesn't affect it anymore. I do more of like a cross-fit type thing instead of just trying to lift dumbbells. And I'm just always out moving, whether it's hiking or kayaking or mountain biking, it's all things that aren't high impact on the neck but I'm still up and moving. And I find as long as I'm moving, the neck doesn't bother me, pain-wise. I know the issues are still there obviously, but I'm not landing and my arm's going numb anymore."
Whether There Are Plans for a Second Edge Book:
"I think so. One of my reservations of doing it back then was I thought it was too soon. And WWE said they had wanted younger guys to do them at that point. So I was like, "I don't know." And then I remember having a conversation with Austin and he was like, "Do it, you can always put out Number 2 later." And I was like, "Well, you know all right, cool. As long as I can write it -- don't want a ghost writer, I want to do it myself." And when they agreed to that after getting some chapters submitted, then you know, I was like, "Okay then I'll do it." So I think there's definitely a second one in there, obviously I've done more in the second half than I did in the first half so there's more to write about. But I think it's just a matter of kind of sitting down and you know, getting myself in that mind frame, putting the pen to paper and just doing it. Right now it's kind of nice, now that I've wrapped on Haven, to just kind of relax for a little bit."
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