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• Loved wrestling growing up and was voted "Most Likely to Be WWE Champion" in high school.
• Won an essay contest sponsored by a Toronto gym at 18 that earned him free wrestling training with pro wrestlers Ron Hutchison and Sweet Daddy Siki.
• Began wrestling professionally as Sexton Hardcastle and teamed with childhood friend Jason "Christian Cage" Reso to form a tag team known as the Suicide Blondes.
• Made his WWE debut in 1998 as Edge and became known as the "Rated-R Superstar."
• Won 31 WWE championships, including 11 world championships.
• Published his autobiography Adam Copeland on Edge in 2004.
• Retired from wrestling in 2011 and took up acting.
• Was cast as bullet-magnet Dwight Hendrickson on Haven in 2011.
• Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.
• Collects guitars.