5 WWE Superstars who had backstage power to choose their opponents

#4 Edge created his WWE storyline with Randy Orton

Edge made his return to WWE as an in-ring competitor at the 2020 WWE Royal Rumble. He initially formed a brief alliance with his former Rated-RKO tag team partner, Randy Orton, before they became involved in a heated rivalry that lasted for the next six months.

After almost nine years out of the ring, Edge’s ‘WWE 24’ episode on the WWE Network showed the veteran having a backstage meeting with members of the company’s creative team in late 2019.

Edge specifically asked to come back at the Royal Rumble, which showed that he had more influence than many other Superstars upon his return, and the man himself confirmed that to be the case during an April 2020 interview with Inside The Ropes.

“We have been left alone, and that's because I've been doing this for twenty-five years, Randy's been doing it for twenty. Nobody is going to write a promo for me, that's all there is to it. I don't work well that way, and I think everybody understands that.”

The WWE Hall of Famer has listed various dream opponents who he wants to face after the Orton storyline, including Seth Rollins, AJ Styles, Cesaro, and Shinsuke Nakamura.