On a recent edition of E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness, Edge spoke about Christian leaving WWE back in 2005. Christian made the jump to TNA under his old ring name, Christian Cage. He spent several years with the promotion before returning to WWE.
During the podcast, Edge shared how he reacted after Christian told him that he was leaving WWE.
Here is what Edge said (h/t to Wrestling INC for the quotes below):
“I remember it was in Anaheim [California] when [Christian] told me and I got it. It was coming off the heels of that program with [John] Cena, which should have been a solo program. [Christian] was really starting to get great reactions and so was John. And then, they kind of forced Jericho into it. And I remember thinking at that time, I was like, ‘hmmm… why did they just force Chris into that? That could have just been a solo Cena/Christian program and it would have been really good.’
So after I saw that, I was like, ‘I wouldn’t be surprised [if Christian left WWE].’ So when [Christian] told me, yeah, I totally got it. I absolutely understood. You reach a certain point, and you go, ‘okay, I’ve done everything I feel like I could and clearly there is something here that isn’t seen or maybe I just go somewhere else and show what I can actually, properly do and see where it goes from there.'”
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On a related note, Edge shared what Vince McMahon told him before he cashed in the Money in the Bank briefcase.