Adam Copeland is a Canadian professional wrestler better known as Edge (born October 30, 1973 in Orangeville, Ontario) who performs for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand.

During on his high school years, he was voted, "the most likely to win the WWE Championship or the World Title".

Throughout the 1990s he wrestled for many independent promotions in Ontario as well in the Great Lakes region of the United States under the name Sexton Hardcastle. He showed much potential and was signed by the then-WWF in 1998.

Many thought that upon his arrival, he would be the next Shawn Michaels. Copeland has found some success in WWE, but not to the magnitude as Michaels has found, however Copeland is still young. He was at first introduced as an enigmatic character, who quickly was teamed with his former tag team partner and on-screen brother, from independent promotions, Christian. The two joined The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness, and eventually found success as a heel comic duo of surfer dudes/teenyboppers. After the split of the team Edge continued with this character for the most part, only as a face.

In 2002, Copeland suffered a neck injury that required surgery that kept him sidelined for close to a year. He wrote a column on WWE.com while he rehabilitated. He was scheduled to return to the ring in February 2004, but suffered an ankle injury just before his expected return. He was placed on the RAW brand in the draft lottery after WrestleMania XX, and returned to in-ring action shortly after that event. On April 19, 2004, he and Chris Benoit won the RAW tag team title.

On July 10 at Vengeance 2004 Edge went one-on-one with Randy Orton and ended Orton's 9 month Intercontinental title reign. On September 7, 2004, Eric Bischoff stripped Edge of the title because of a injury Edge received at a non-televised wrestling match. Right now, Edge's own autobiography book entitled "Adam Copeland On Edge" (The On Edge Book), is available now everywhere at the nearest bookstores. It tells his own voyage on wrestling industry and how he get success in the independent circuit of the WWE. It features his personal life as a person before and after, on-cam or even behind the camera.

He is now portrayed as a heel, crazed, with a severe anger management problem, making fueds with such people as Shawn Michaels, eventually twisting the story so much that he thinks Michaels is the reason he did not get a chance at the World Heavyweight Title at Taboo Tuesday. They have faced each other many times, including at 2005's Royal Rumble.

Finishing/signature moves

• Edgecution (Lifting DDT)
• Spear
• Edgeucator (Inverted Cloverleaf Leg-lace Crab)

Title History

• WWE Intercontinental Champion(5)
  • 7/24/99-7/25/99
  • 8/19/01-9/23/01
  • 10/21/01-11/5/01
  • 11/18/01-1/20/02
  • 7/11/04-09/06/04

• WCW United States Heavyweight Champion(1)
  • 11/12/01-11/18/01 (Defeated WWE Intercontinental Champion Test to win title, US Title Absorbed into it until 7/27/03)

• World Tag Team Champion(9)
  • 4/2/00-5/29/00 (with Christian)
  • 6/25/00-9/24/00 (with Christian)
  • 10/22/00-10/23/00 (with Christian, as Los Conquistadores)
  • 12/10/00-12/18/00 (with Christian)
  • 12/19/00-1/21/01 (with Christian)
  • 3/19/01 (with Christian, defeated the Hardy Boyz, lost to The Dudley Boyz in the same night)
  • 4/1/01-4/17/01 (with Christian; won a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match)
  • 4/19/04-05/31/04 (with World Heavyweight Champion Chris Benoit)
  • 10/19/04-11/01/04 (with Chris Benoit)

• WWE Tag Team Championship
  • 11/5/02-11/17/02 (with Rey Mysterio, Jr.)
  • 7/2/02-7/21/02 (with Hulk Hogan)

• 2001 King of the Ring