Former WWE Famous person Christian Cage stated that he and Edge had been supposed to separate up after WrestleMania 2000, however plans had been modified.
Through the occasion, they took on The Dudley Boyz and The Hardy Boyz in a Triangle Ladder match for the WWE (previously WWF) Tag Crew Championship. They defeated each groups to seize their first tag workforce titles.
Talking on The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Christian Cage said that he and Edge weren’t initially booked to win the match, they usually had been imagined to disband following the bout.
“I believe perhaps just a few days earlier than we really sat all the way down to put this collectively [the WrestleMania match], we did not even know what the end was,” stated Cage. “At one level, it was any individual else successful, and Edge & Christian, we’re splitting up after this. So then we form of we began to speak a bit bit earlier than this, or after this, once we form of began speaking after which we turned.” [H/T Fightful]
It needs to be famous that Christian and Edge turned heel after the match and went on to lose the titles to The Hardy Boyz just a few months later at Unforgiven.
Christian Cage says he and Edge modified how WWE seen them as a workforce
After their match at WrestleMania 2000, Captain Charisma and the Rated R Famous person turned heel and began slicing unscripted promos. The AEW star added that it modified the higher-ups’ impression of them.
Through the podcast, Christian Cage additionally talked about that their commentary shtick is what helped save them.
“They [WWE] advised us to say no matter we needed and Adam and I began dropping F-bombs. We weren’t imagined to — we had been imagined to lose and that modified the minds. They had been like, ‘Oh, these guys aren’t performed but. There’s extra layers, as a tag.’ Then they determined to have us win the match after which flip heel as a result of they noticed some character there once we had been doing we did that promo. Then, we did a few issues on commentary and that was form of the factor that saved Edge and Christian as a workforce as a result of we had been going to separate up after this,” stated Cage.
Christian at the moment competes in All Elite Wrestling as a supervisor and an in-ring competitor alongside present AEW Tag Crew Champions The Jurassic Categorical. His former associate Edge is part of the WWE RAW model, the place he performs a heel and is at the moment feuding towards AJ Kinds.
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