Former WWE Celebrity Christian Cage stated that he and Edge had been intended to separate up after WrestleMania 2000, however plans had been modified.
Throughout the development, they took on The Dudley Boyz and The Hardy Boyz in a Triangle Ladder fit for the WWE (previously WWF) Tag Group Championship. They defeated each groups to seize their first tag group titles.
Talking on The Excessive Lifetime of Matt Hardy podcast, Christian Cage said that he and Edge were not at first booked to win the fit, and so they had been intended to disband following the bout.
“I believe possibly a couple of days earlier than we in truth sat down to place this in combination [the WrestleMania match], we did not even know what the end used to be,” stated Cage. “At one level, it used to be anyone else profitable, and Edge & Christian, we are splitting up after this. So then we roughly we began to speak somewhat bit earlier than this, or after this, once we roughly began speaking after which we became.” [H/T Fightful]
It will have to be famous that Christian and Edge became heel after the fit and went directly to lose the titles to The Hardy Boyz a couple of months later at Unforgiven.
Christian Cage says he and Edge modified how WWE seen them as a group
After their fit at WrestleMania 2000, Captain Aura and the Rated R Celebrity became heel and began slicing unscripted promos. The AEW celebrity added that it modified the higher-ups’ influence of them.
Throughout the podcast, Christian Cage additionally discussed that their statement shtick is what helped save them.
“They [WWE] instructed us to mention no matter we would have liked and Adam and I began shedding F-bombs. We were not intended to — we had been intended to lose and that modified the minds. They had been like, ‘Oh, those guys don’t seem to be carried out but. There is extra layers, as a tag.’ Then they determined to have us win the fit 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 statement and that used to be roughly the object that stored Edge and Christian as a group as a result of we had been going to separate up after this,” stated Cage.
Christian lately competes in All Elite Wrestling as a supervisor and an in-ring competitor along present AEW Tag Group Champions The Jurassic Categorical. His former spouse Edge is part of the WWE RAW emblem, the place he performs a heel and is lately feuding towards AJ Kinds.
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