Christian discusses Cagefighter, not being in the WWE Hall of Fame, Edge & more [Exclusive]

Edge and Christian

So, it's funny you mentioned Zack Ryder, he and you have very strong links to one man in particular. Edge recently returned to the ring after nine years out at the Royal Rumble, and just had his first singles match in almost a decade at WrestleMania vs Orton. What were your thoughts on the match and, well, what were your thoughts when you found out Edge wanted to return?

Yeah, I was surprised when he told me that he was going to see a doctor and try to get... See if there would maybe be a possibility of being cleared. When he told me the doctor... He called me basically on the drive home from the doctor and said, "Yeah, they said I can do this." I was like, "Wow."

He had a second surgery on his neck and obviously the surgery has advanced a lot since when he originally had it done years ago. Also, he's got kids so he's not going to put himself in any danger. He'd put his kids before anything else so obviously if he was comfortable with it and his family is comfortable with that, then that's all I needed to hear to be okay with it.

But it's exciting. It's unheard of for somebody to come back after being retired for nine years and I know, with his first WrestleMania match, he had visions of it being in a different setting than it was but, at the end of the day, I think it's good for people to have entertainment. Much like with Cagefighter, what we're doing here with Fite TV being able to stream it, it's kind of unheard of for this to happen but the world needs entertainment.

They really do. They need a good distraction at this point in time and I've said this before, whether Edge came out in front of 70,000+ fans or walked out at the Performance Center at WrestleMania, the fact that he walked down that ramp with his music to me is one of the greatest moments in WrestleMania history.

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So, in an age where no-one ever really retires and Edge came back... Did that spark anything for you? Would you ever be tempted to return?

No, no, I'm done.

Even if I was, I wouldn't tell you but it's not, trust me. [Jay laughs]

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One thing that recently came to an end was your podcast with Edge. Will we ever see Edge and Christian's Pod of Awesomeness return?

Well, I mean, never say never to anything but obviously with Beth going back on the road doing commentary and then... Which was really kind of the reason why we had to stop it. It was way before Edge was even considering getting cleared to go back. It was just hard for him to kind of... As hard as it sounds, doing a once-a-week podcast, it takes a lot of work to get the content and put it out there.

It was just one of those things where he felt that he needed to kind of be more present. You never know what will happen down the line in the future but I have another couple other things I'm working on in that respect so we'll see what happens.

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I put out a tweet teasing this interview and one thing that a lot of people wanted to know was about your run in TNA! There are a lot of big fans of your run in TNA out there, but how do you look back on it?

I had a great time in TNA. I really enjoyed my few years I had there. They gave me a huge opportunity. That's what I was looking for. When I stepped away from WWE, it was to basically bet on myself that I could go further and I could do more than what I was doing, and obviously the schedule was very good for me. I could drive to Orlando every week so I didn't have to get on a plane, so that was nice.

And more than anything, they gave me an opportunity to work at the top of the card and give myself the confidence that I could do that.

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