Former AEW TNT Champion Christian Cage spoke with Chris Van Vliet about the end of his first WWE run in 2005.
Christian discussed how he received a positive crowd reaction during a match against Batista, but the company did not follow up.
“After we came back, he [Bastista] said ‘What are they doing with you man? They have to do something’ and I was like ‘I don’t know.’ And then after that…the triple threat thing happened with myself and [John] Cena and [Chris] Jericho. When they inserted Chris into that to kind of…maybe they didn’t see me as a big enough star at the time to be able to carry that…that bothered me.
I was like ‘You’re not even giving me the chance to prove that I can do this? You’re just going to add somebody else in there?’ So that to me was kind of the writing on the wall. I was like ‘Nothing is going to change unless I change it myself.’”
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