Given that it was the Attitude Era by the summer of 1998, it wasn’t uncommon for matches on WWE TV to last no more than a couple of minutes. If anything, the wrestling during the Attitude Era took a backseat to all of the chaos and carnage that surrounded the company’s characters at that time. However, Edge wanted to make sure that people knew he could go in the ring.

After a hot start from Estrada, Edge hit a spear, his first one on TV that didn’t end up being his finishing move at the time, a dropkick, and then a somersault senton to the outside. Despite everything looking good from a fans perspective, Edge had genuinely injured Estrada with the senton, landing on the top of his head, causing him to be knocked out, and forcing referee Tim White to rule the match in favor of Edge by count out.

In a 2019 interview with Inside The Ropes, Edge said that he felt like “a bag of prison ass” afterwards as he felt like he had not only blown his big moment, but that he also hurt someone for real. There was a long-standing rumor that Estrada had broken his neck during the match, but that wasn’t true as Edge confirmed that Estrada simply had a lot of pinched nerves in his neck following their bout, and Estrada was back wrestling on TV less than a month later.

Estrada would actually continue wrestling until 2007 before retiring, but he did come out of retirement for one night only in 2024 to reunite with Los Boricuas at an event in Puerto Rico. As for Edge, he would also be forced to retire in 2011, but would return in 2020, and after a three year run that saw him win another Royal Rumble and headline WrestleMania 37, he joined All Elite Wrestling to feud with his long-time friend/partner Christian Cage.