Adam Copeland has gone by the ring name of “Edge” for many years now.

During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the WWE Hall of Famer commented on the origin of his ring name.

The “Rated R Superstar” attributed his WWE ring name to a local radio station in Albany, New York.

You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On growing up as a wrestling fan: “It was all of the things that I love. I loved superheroes, I loved music and I loved sports. So, when I saw wrestling, it was all of those things because these larger-than-life characters had colorful outfits that would be in comic books. They had entrance music and like pyro and stuff, so it’s a Kiss concert. And, they’re doing these things that I equate it to like a hockey game or a football game — just an athletic performance. It tapped into all the things that my little-kid brain loved. I just never grew out of the little-kid brain.”

On coming up with the name: “I actually came up with Edge. I would have preferred Adam Copeland, but that wasn’t the way it really worked [in that era], right?”

On where it came from: “Don Callis and I were driving, and the radio station, it was in Albany, NY, and it was ‘Edge 1-0-something,’ and growing up in Toronto, Edge 102 was always one of my favorite stations. I was like, ‘Hmm, that has a bit of a rock ‘n’ roll feel to it, Edge.’ They were tossing around names like Rage, Riot, and you know, it was the late ’90s, right? I just thought, ‘Edge, I’ll throw that out there.’ At least that’s something I could relate to a little bit better. And it stuck.”

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