Christian On Being Forced To Retire From Concussions

AEW star and former WWE Superstar Christian Cage joins Chris to discuss what it was like to find out that he had to retire while wrestling for WWE.
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[@johnnywalker5745]

I remembered that he was supposed to face Big E for the Intercontinental Championship back in 2014.

[@easter_sunday]

By that time the title was beneath him.

[@KBlade1]

He was about to make the IC Title the top title on RAW in 2014 ​@@easter_sunday

[@easter_sunday]

@@KBlade1 Christian Cage is too good for RAW. He's too good for the WWE. He's so good in fact, he might be one of those elite lizard people that run the world, yeah?

[@alaooooy7]

Bryan and Edge had 20 minute long retirement speeches or segments. For Christian they aired a minute and a half long montage and the first 40 seconds of it were about Edge! Vince deserves hell for how he treated Christian. Christian Cage is one of the greatest wrestling talents ever and he deserves much more credit than he gets.

[@EscapeTheHold]

Yeah. Damn you Vince for giving him the World Title twice. Such poor treatment.

[@alaooooy7]

@@EscapeTheHold For less than 30 days combined! Jack Swagger got a way longer reign and Jinder Mahal got a WWE Title reign which Christian never got. So yeah, damn Vinny and all his slaves.

[@alaooooy7]

Christian Cage deserved much better both before and after his legendary TNA run. He's still one of the very best in every way and the best heel in wrestling. He deserves an AEW World Championship reign and he deserves to always be remembered as one of the very best.

[@palatialslumlord4938]

Pray for this man in his future older age

[@SoundwaveSC]

And they so kindly never told any of the fans and next time Christian showed up commentary mentioned extremely off-handedly "oh he's retired now btw lmao" One of the best wrestlers ever lost literal years of his career, being forced to sit on the shelf. Thanks, WWE.

[@Eureca]

Thanks WWE? For what sending him to a concussion doctor that forced him to retire? Were they suppose to just let him wrestle against doctors orders?

[@SoundwaveSC]

@@Eureca They never let him get re-assessed. He got a bad result, and they're like "Okay, you're done forever!" Like maybe let the dude take some time off then re-assess later on? Turns out he was fine! They did the same thing to Daniel Bryan. WWE wouldn't clear him, but every doctor Bryan visited independently said he was fine. It was only when Bryan was going to leave that they gave in and let him wrestle again.

[@Eureca]

@@SoundwaveSC They can't legally force anybody to not get re-assessed. That is why DB, Christian and Edge are wrestling in 2024 because they are free to find doctors that will eventually clear them. You say he was fine. He was fine years later after he went back. WWE obviously went by what the doctors told them. You are being silly if you think the WWE ever wanted any of them to retire. They didn't let them wrestle because a doctor told them they couldn't.

[@BrndnNZT48]

​@Eureca really? Vince did the same thing back in the day to Savage. He said he was done and moved him to commentary. Savage wasn't even injured 😂😂😂

[@alaooooy7]

Bryan and Edge had 20 minute long retirement speeches or segments. For Christian they aired a minute and a half long montage and the first 40 seconds of it were about Edge! Vince deserves hell for how he treated Christian. Christian Cage is one of the greatest wrestling talents ever and he deserves much more credit than he gets.

[@UnrealDerek]

Being forced to retire on something you still love and wanna do... That's tough. Just glad he's able to keep on doing what he loves & maybe is doing his best work, which is crazy in a good way to me

[@alaooooy7]

Christian Cage is the man!

[@michaelvazquez7851]

Nice interview

[@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam]

Ten years. That’s typically how long it takes to slide into major health issues from CTE. That ain’t all that long.

[@sinjin4563]

Like usual Vince and WWE force an INCREDIBLE talent to retire too early and ending their career. Now with Christian, Bryan, Paige, and likely Edge would have been good for a few years too, etc.

[@gerardorodriguez7858]

I mean, all WWE did was liosten to the doctors, I dont see anything wrong with that. After Benoit and Eddie, they dont want to have another scandal of a wrestler dying too young and it being attributed to them. I'm sure if that ever happens to AEW they'll also start to be way more cautious on who to hire.

[@redrick8900]

No Edge was at risk of death from any hit. His situation was completely different than Christian. Christian could have taken a few months off and came back but Edge is a unique case of a guy rehabbing from an injury that would have ended anyone else's career.

[@whisperienced]

I was just getting back into wrestling when my college house had cable, he was so good at that time and solidified him as my all time favourite. Even though being from Shelburne he was from Orangeville so that already made him my favourite.

[@TheBushRanger.]

What a legend

[@mattb6369]

Christian had a half decent last year within the second half of 2013 and early 2014, it just happened to be an area of the business where a ridiculous amount was going on, the roster was over-bloated, the two world titles were eventually unified... but he was always doing the best he could. He fought for the World Championship at Summerslam 2013, his last payperview match at Elimination Chamber 2014 was the main event for the Undisputed WWE World title, then his last match that year on Raw was beating a few of his best peers for a shot at the Intercontinental title.

[@DillAvery]

Make sure those can labels are facing the hard cam 😂

[@easter_sunday]

🎯

[@StevenFay-ls7wx]

It's always Rey mystio that make people get injured 😅

[@breesproat6624]

Chris should interview Shane McMahon

[@alaooooy7]

Forcing one of the best wrestlers to retire after one rushed test is creul. I'm glad Christian Cage is back and better than ever!

[@coltonwilkie241]

It wasn't just one rushed test. He literally said he had multiple concussions in a short period of time. Do you actually think they wanted to risk another Benoit situation and risk Christian having permanent brain damage?

[@Rommie26]

Day 186 of asking Chris to interview Brian Gewertz

[@RockApe_]

We will get this addressed 🫡

[@tylermcnally8232]

Shut up mark

[@Kronix86]

Who?

[@davidjohnson4293]

Who? Naw he doin main event stars now. He's done interviewing no name jobbers 😂

[@williammccormick984]

Day 186 of no one caring what you think.

[@theragoooverlord5021]

Seems rey is rather clumsy

[@steelfox4627]

Throwing yourself at someone is risky no matter who does it once your launched you can’t do much about it and you need the other guy to be in the perfect position

[@gerardorodriguez7858]

Only two guys out of hundreds that have wrestled Rey mention being injured by him and people already come to the conclusion that Rey is clumsy, even though neither of them has ever blamed him for tha accident. This is wrestling pal, it doesnt matter how profesional you are, if you job is to have people land on you there's going to be a ton of accidents.

[@austinburns9480]

Seems you’re rather idiotic

[@squiddwizzard8850]

​@@gerardorodriguez7858 Undertaker, Christian, and that guy that died. I'm not saying Rey is unsafe but it's more than two and I am sure there are others.

[@ii9714]

Seems a bit intense Christian

[@ADAMdinho1]

Christian Cage character bro 😂

[@ajusaguy]

First maybe

[@most_displeased_customer1209]

Second definitely.

[@JasonStorm419]

🏆 🍪

[@JasonStorm419]

​@@most_displeased_customer1209 🥈 🍪

[@JasonStorm419]

​@@most_displeased_customer1209🥈 🍪

[@easter_sunday]

This is just a reminder that Christian Cage is superior to Adam Copeland. You might hate this truth, but it’s the truth all the same and your feelings about it don’t matter.

[@SkydrawnIV]

Sounds like something I'd have said at fifteen years old.

[@easter_sunday]

@@SkydrawnIV 15 or 51 it doesn't matter. It's the truth. And the latter would understand that you have to make a delineation when awarding contract money. Or providing endorsements.

[@nadia.k519]

How tho? Explain

[@easter_sunday]

@@nadia.k519 Genetics. Upbringing. Life Experience. Christian is the father you didn't know you needed. Copeland is the uncle you're kind of embarrassed about. 😆🧂

[@nadia.k519]

@@easter_sunday man I’m talkin bout wrestling. How is he the better wrestler