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** In Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, Christian has managed to crawl out of Edge's shadow and become one of the company's top heels in 2023 as the TNT Champion and ThePatriarch of a heel turned Luchasaurus and Nick Wayne. Punctuated even further when Edge made his 2023 debut, [[SwappedRoles now the underdog newcomer clashing against Christian's established reign.]]
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** In Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, Christian has managed to crawl out of Edge's shadow and become one of the company's top heels in 2023 as the TNT Champion and ThePatriarch of a heel turned Luchasaurus and Nick Wayne. Punctuated even further when Edge made his [=WrestleDream=] 2023 debut, [[SwappedRoles now the underdog newcomer clashing against Christian's established reign.]]
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** In a RoleReversal at Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, Christian has managed to crawl out of Edge's shadow and become one of the company's top heels in 2023 as the TNT Champion and ThePatriarch of a heel turned Luchasaurus and Nick Wayne. Punctuated even further when Edge made his 2023 debut, now the underdog newcomer clashing against Christian's established reign.
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** In a RoleReversal at Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, Christian has managed to crawl out of Edge's shadow and become one of the company's top heels in 2023 as the TNT Champion and ThePatriarch of a heel turned Luchasaurus and Nick Wayne. Punctuated even further when Edge made his 2023 debut, [[SwappedRoles now the underdog newcomer clashing against Christian's established reign.]]
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** In a RoleReversal at Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, Christian has managed to crawl out of Edge's shadow and become one of the company's top heels in 2023 as the TNT Champion and ThePatriarch of a heel turned Luchasaurus and Nick Wayne. Punctuated even further when Edge made his 2023 debut, now the underdog newcomer clashing against Christian's established reign.
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** Edge has had way more success than Christian, especially taking Christian's title reign that did not even last a week. Christian accomplished the one feat Edge never did though, he became a Grand Slam Champion. [[note]]Although Edge retroactively became one in 2015, due to WWE updating its Grand Slam format[[/note]]
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** Edge has had way more success than Christian, especially taking into account that Christian's first world title reign that did not even last lasted ''two days'', and the second lasted less than a week.month (and was won via DQ in a match where the title changing hands via DQ was allowed). Christian accomplished the one feat Edge never did though, he became a Grand Slam Champion. [[note]]Although Edge retroactively became one in 2015, due to WWE updating its Grand Slam format[[/note]] format.[[/note]]
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** Edge has had way more success than Christian, especially taking Christian's title reign that did not even last a week. Christian accomplished the one feat Edge never did though, he became a Grand Slam Champion.
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** Edge has had way more success than Christian, especially taking Christian's title reign that did not even last a week. Christian accomplished the one feat Edge never did though, he became a Grand Slam Champion. [[note]]Although Edge retroactively became one in 2015, due to WWE updating its Grand Slam format[[/note]]
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* OneOfUs: Christian is a pretty big gamer - He was once #52 in the ''Top Spin 2'' rankings on UsefulNotes/Xbox360, and in 2008 was colomnist at GameTap (Unfortunately, all links to the blogs are now dead).
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** Edge has had way more success than Christian, especially taking Christian's title reign that did not even last a week. Christian accomplished the one feat Edge never did though, he became a Grand Slam Champion.
** Both [=Edge=] and Christian are this in regards to the Brood.
** Edge has had way more success than Christian, especially taking Christian's title reign that did not even last a week. Christian accomplished the one feat Edge never did though, he became a Grand Slam Champion.
** Both [=Edge=] and Christian are this in regards to the Brood.
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** Had Edge's body held out one more year, he would have had his retirement match at WrestleMania XXVIII, against Christian.
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** Had Edge's body held out one more year, he would have had his retirement match at WrestleMania Wrestling/WrestleMania XXVIII, against Christian.
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** Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt. Christian in turn went to WWECW and more or less carried the show until it was replaced by Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, to the point that he remained ECW Champion since his return up until the last episode of the show, where he lost it to Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules match, aside from a brief one month-reign for Wrestling/TommyDreamer.
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** Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt. Christian in turn went to WWECW and more or less carried the show until it was replaced by Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, to the point that he remained spent most of his return as ECW Champion since his return up until the last episode of the show, where he lost it to Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules match, aside from a brief one month-reign for Wrestling/TommyDreamer.match.
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* OneOfUs: Christian is a pretty big gamer - He was once #52 in the ''Top Spin 2'' rankings on Xbox360, and in 2008 was colomnist at GameTap (Unfortunately, all links to the blogs are now dead).
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* OneOfUs: Christian is a pretty big gamer - He was once #52 in the ''Top Spin 2'' rankings on Xbox360, UsefulNotes/Xbox360, and in 2008 was colomnist at GameTap (Unfortunately, all links to the blogs are now dead).
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* DyeingForYourArt: Defied. When the Un-Americans were formed, management wanted Test and Christian to cut their hair into crewcuts to match Lance Storm - and to give the group a more militant appearance. Christian refused but he ended up cutting his hair a few months later anyway.
* MoneyDearBoy: Numerous TNA talents confirmed that Christian left TNA when his contract expired and returned to WWE because the latter was offering more money.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: ''Maybe'' Christian would have gotten a legitimate WC shot soon anyway. But the ''Extreme Rules 2011'' match where he won the title was supposed to be [=Edge=] defending his championship against Del Rio. But then, of course, [=Edge=] retired. This was even [[LampshadeHanging touched on]] by Wrestling/MichaelCole during the actual match - and he might have been doing it just to be stir things up, but [[StrawmanHasAPoint he was actually telling the truth in a way.]]* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by WWE]]: Dropping the World Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/RandyOrton 2 days after Extreme Rules.
** WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & Christian turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt. Christian in turn went to WWECW and more or less carried the show until it was replaced by Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, to the point that he remained ECW Champion since his return up until the last episode of the show, where he lost it to Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules match, aside from a brief one month-reign for Wrestling/TommyDreamer.
** With Edge retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more Edge and Christian reunions. At least, [[Series/{{Haven}} not in the ring]].
** WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & Christian turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt. Christian in turn went to WWECW and more or less carried the show until it was replaced by Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, to the point that he remained ECW Champion since his return up until the last episode of the show, where he lost it to Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules match, aside from a brief one month-reign for Wrestling/TommyDreamer.
** With Edge retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more Edge and Christian reunions. At least, [[Series/{{Haven}} not in the ring]].
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* PlayingAgainstType: In his first WWE run, Christian was almost always a heel. Even in TNA he came in as a face and quickly turned heel. In his second WWE run, he was a {{Face}} for the majority. Although he turned heel in 2011, he was back to being a face in 2012.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: ''Maybe'' Christian would have gotten a legitimate WC shot soon anyway. But the ''Extreme Rules 2011'' match where he won the title was supposed to be [=Edge=] defending his championship against Del Rio. But then, of course, [=Edge=] retired. This was even [[LampshadeHanging touched on]] by Wrestling/MichaelCole during the actual match - and he might have been doing it just to be stir things up, but [[StrawmanHasAPoint he was actually telling the truth in a way.]]* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by WWE]]: Dropping ]] This then provided the World Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/RandyOrton 2 days after Extreme Rules.
** WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, withnext six months' worth of storylines, where Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & won the belt five days later and Christian ended up turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
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** Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt. Christian in turn went to WWECW and more or less carried the show until it was replaced by Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, to the point that he remained ECW Champion since his return up until the last episode of the show, where he lost it to Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules match, aside from a brief one month-reign forWrestling/TommyDreamer.
** With Edge retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more Edge and Christian reunions. At least, [[Series/{{Haven}} not in the ring]].Wrestling/TommyDreamer.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: ''Maybe'' Christian would have gotten a legitimate WC shot soon anyway. But the ''Extreme Rules 2011'' match where he won the title was supposed to be [=Edge=] defending his championship against Del Rio. But then, of course, [=Edge=] retired. This was even [[LampshadeHanging touched on]] by Wrestling/MichaelCole during the actual match - and he might have been doing it just to be stir things up, but [[StrawmanHasAPoint he was actually telling the truth in a way.
** WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with
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** Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt. Christian in turn went to WWECW and more or less carried the show until it was replaced by Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, to the point that he remained ECW Champion since his return up until the last episode of the show, where he lost it to Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules match, aside from a brief one month-reign for
** With Edge retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more Edge and Christian reunions. At least, [[Series/{{Haven}} not in the ring]].
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* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the WWE]]: Dropping the World Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/RandyOrton 2 days after Extreme Rules.
** The WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & Christian turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
** The WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & Christian turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: ''Maybe'' Christian would have gotten a legitimate WC shot soon anyway. But the ''Extreme Rules 2011'' match where he won the title was supposed to be [=Edge=] defending his championship against Del Rio. But then, of course, [=Edge=] retired. This was even [[LampshadeHanging touched on]] by Wrestling/MichaelCole during the actual match - and he might have been doing it just to be stir things up, but [[StrawmanHasAPoint he was actually telling the truth in a way.]]* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the WWE]]: Dropping the World Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/RandyOrton 2 days after Extreme Rules.
**The WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & Christian turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt. Christian in turn went to WWECW and more or less carried the show until it was replaced by Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, to the point that he remained ECW Champion since his return up until the last episode of the show, where he lost it to Ezekiel Jackson in an Extreme Rules match, aside from a brief one month-reign for Wrestling/TommyDreamer.
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** With [=Edge=] retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more [=Edge=] and Christian reunions.** Had Edge's body held out one more year, he would have had his retirement match at WrestleMania XXVIII, against Christian.
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** With [=Edge=] retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more [=Edge=] and Christian reunions.reunions.
** Had Edge's body held out one more year, he would have had his retirement match at WrestleMania XXVIII, against Christian.
** Had Edge's body held out one more year, he would have had his retirement match at WrestleMania XXVIII, against Christian.
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* OneOfUs: Christian is a pretty big gamer - He was once #52 in the ''Top Spin 2'' rankings on Xbox360, and in 2008 was colomnist at GameTap (Unfortunately, all links to the blogs are now dead).
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the WWE]]: Dropping the World Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/RandyOrton 2 days after Extreme Rules.
** The WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & Christian turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt.
** With [=Edge=] retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more [=Edge=] and Christian reunions.** Had Edge's body held out one more year, he would have had his retirement match at WrestleMania XXVIII, against Christian.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the WWE]]: Dropping the World Heavyweight Championship to Wrestling/RandyOrton 2 days after Extreme Rules.
** The WWE eventually took the storyline in this direction, with Randy Orton getting preferential treatment from ''Smackdown'' GM Teddy Long & Christian turning heel because of it.[[note]]Five days after ''Extreme Rules'', Christian is forced into a title match that night against Orton by Long, after a quick poll of the fans showed they wanted Orton to get a shot more than two other superstars. Fast forward a month, and we have the exact same situation, only with Christian & Orton switching places; this time, however, Long ignores that Christian was the fan's choice & makes a triple threat with the winner getting a shot the next week, meaning Orton is getting a week to prepare for the defense, and when the triple threat match happens, Christian loses due to the referee not counting a pinfall that would have won the match for Christian. Long then does ''nothing'' about this, and refuses to let Christian make the title match a triple threat.[[/note]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Christian's TNA departure & WWE return - on ''both'' sides. If he had stayed in TNA, he would have become the mouthpiece for the faction opposing the Main Event Mafia; when he returned to the WWE, he was initially slated to be the person sabotaging Wrestling/JeffHardy's life, before everyone figured it out fairly quickly & the role in the feud was instead given to Jeff's brother Matt.
** With [=Edge=] retired due to GameBreakingInjury, we'll have no more [=Edge=] and Christian reunions.** Had Edge's body held out one more year, he would have had his retirement match at WrestleMania XXVIII, against Christian.
