It’s funny, I remember when I wrote last year’s anniversary message and it doesn’t feel like a whole year has gone by. I remember mentioning that I never had the chance to meet him, like so many others have and I also remember that this time, last year, he was out injured after tearing his pectoral muscle. I know that this sounds cliche but how time changes many things.

Back in February, as everyone knows, Christian made his return to the WWE at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view and has been at the top of his game ever since. He stood by his best friend, Edge’s (Adam Copeland) side during what was to be his last match at Wrestlemania 27 earlier this year and after Edge’s sudden retirement Christian became a main eventer and won the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view. Sure, he lost it on the following Smackdown broadcast, but he was able to win the Championship back from Randy Orton at Money In The Bank, back in July. Even though he may no longer be the World Heavyweight Champion, he’s still doing the Peeps proud and no matter what, we’ll always be there cheering him on, whether he likes it or not!

Now that the little round up of the year is taken care of, I want to take the time to thank each and every one of you that take the time to visit the site. It sounds sappy but I wouldn’t still being going on if it wasn’t for you guys. As most of you know it’s been a tough few months for me, but I knew that, even though there was many times that I felt like giving up I just couldn’t do it. Sure there’s a few more Christian sites out there than there was when I first started let’s face it, there wasn’t ANY when I first started lol and I know that I’ve not been trying as much as I used to recently, but I’m happy to say that the recent lack of anything on this site and my lack of wanting to work on it, is a thing of the past. I want to thank you guys and at the same time apologise for just letting the site sit here and look pretty.

I know that I thank Carmisha and David every year, but as I say every year, if it wasn’t for them, there would be no Instant Classic! Thanks also to everyone that has stuck by me and the site for the past three years, how crazy has it been?! To our new visitors, thanks so much for taking the time to check the site out and I hope that I’m doing the best job that I can! Another big thank you to everyone out there, whether you’ve just stumbled upon the site, you casually check it out, you’ve donated anything, sent me messages, just thank you for being apart of making Instant Classic the best source for Jay ‘Christian’ Reso!

As always, I HAVE to thank the man himself, Christian! Most of you don’t know this, he doesn’t know it himself, but he helped me out a hell of a lot after the passing of my Nan back in July and I can’t even explain how much I appreciated how he helped me. So thank you again Christian, so much. Also thank you for giving me the chance to meet you back in April, something that I will never forget and I really did appreciate you taking the time to talk to me, even if it was only for a few minutes. Thank you for eveything that you’ve done for all of the Peeps around the world and you know that no matter what, we’ll continue to support you 100%. Thanks again for everything and I really hope that the site makes you proud!

Lastly, as a little gift to you all and for our 3rd anniversary, I’ve added two high quality photos to the gallery! Happy 3rd Anniversary Instant-Classic.org and thanks to each and every one of you for being apart of it!

Gallery Links
- Promotional Photos – Official WWE Promo (2011)
- Appearances / Candids – WWE Ticket Sales Opening (Set #3)

In the weeks following this strange appearance, we came to find out that this mysterious figure’s name was Christian, a man from Edge’s past. Gangrel, who has feuding with Edge at the time, brought Christian out to accompany him at ringside in every match that he scheduled to participate in. To everyone else, Christian didn’t have a past, but to Edge and Gangrel, Christian would play a major role in what was to happen a few months later.

Before anything else could go any further, Christian was determined to prove himself and on October 18th 1998, at the Judgment Day pay-per-view, he did just that. On that night, in his first ever match in the WWE, Christian became the Light Heavyweight Champion. With Gangrel standing at ringside and Edge sitting up in the stands, Christian proved to the world that he wasn’t only brought into the WWE as a distraction to Edge, but by beating Taka Michinoku in his very first match and winning a championship, he was not one to be taken lightly.

Weeks after Christian was crowned the new Light Heavyweight Champion, himself and Gangrel were able to convince Edge to join the two. Collectively, they became known as The Brood. Intimidating others with, what people described as their pseudo-vampire way of life, attacking whoever they could in the dark and leaving their mark as they made individuals suffer a blood bath. The Brood became a force to be reckoned with, even more so when they aligned themselves with The Undertaker’s group, known as The Ministry.

The Brood’s affiliation with The Ministry was only short-lived though, as The Undertaker deemed that they, on in particular, Christian, were unfit to be associated with himself or his faction, as Christian had dissatisfied him on more than just one occasion.

This lead into The Brood’s feud with one of the other rising tag-teams in the WWE at the time, The Hardy Boyz and their manager, Michael Hayes. But there soon was a twist, after Edge and Christian broke away from Gangrel, The Hardy Boyz turned on their manager and then they associate themselves with the man that they had been feuding with for quite a while, the man that both Edge and Christian had recently spilt from. Together, The Hardy Boyz and Gangrel would be known as The New Brood. The feud between the two tag teams would continue, they’re matches were as awe-inspiring as they were memorable and both teams set the stage for what tag-team matches should be.

As time rolled on, another tag team stepped onto the scene, known as The Dudley Boys and on April 2nd, at Wrestlemania 2000, the three teams put on now of the greatest match in WWE history. In a match that is still talked about this very day, Edge and Christian, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boys took part in the first ever Triangle Ladder match for the WWE Tag Team Championships. In an amazing showing by each of the three teams, Edge and Christian came out the victors, winning the Tag Team Championships, for the very first time.

After winning the WWE Tag Team Championships, the very same titles that they had been dreaming about winning since childhood, Edge and Christian really broke out. The became established for wearing crazy sunglasses, mocking just about every city they were in at the time reeking of awesomeness and, of course, for the benefit of those with flash photography, the five second pose.

Even though Edge and Christian began to make light of every situation that they were in, from that point on, they remained a force to be reckoned with in every single match that they had competed in. That didn’t change the fact that they tried to dodge every match in which their Tag Team Championships where on the line, they even went as far as almost trick the Commissioner of the WWE, Mick Foley into believe that Christian had suffered food poisoning of the very same day that they had to defend the WWE Tag Team Championships, against the Acolytes, at the Fully Loaded pay-per-view. Unfortunately for them, Mick Foley found out exactly what was going on, but Edge and Christian got the last laugh, after getting themselves intentionally disqualified, keeping what they never wanted to defend in the first place, the Tag Team Championship Titles.

As a tag team, E&C, Edge and Christian became the tag team champions, a record-setting seven times together. They, as well as The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boys set the standards for all tag teams of their generation, the three teams became household names, defining what it was to be a great, successful and legendary tag team. With their Triangle Ladder match behind them, the three teams made history once more on August 27th 2000 at WWE’s Summerslam pay-per-view. Edge and Christian were the masters of the chairs, The Hardy Boyz were the masters of the ladders and The Dudley Boys were masters of the tables. Who better than the hardcore legend himself, Mick Foley, to set up a match in which each of these teams to be in their element. Tables, Ladders and Chairs. The TLC match was born. In yet another historic match, Edge and Christian retained their WWE Tag Team Championships and once again, bar was raised for the tag team division.

Near the end of the year 2000, Edge and Christian were defeated for their coveted WWE Tag Team Championships by The Hardy Boyz, in a steel cage match at the Unforgiven pay-per-view. The following night on Monday Night Raw, they evoked their rematch clause. The match that was set to take place was a ladder match, but there was one added stipulation, if they lost their rematch they could never again challenge for the tag team championship as long as the Hardy Boyz held them. Unfortunately, they lost, but Edge and Christian figured out a way in which they could once again become the Tag Team Champions, they began competing under the masks of Los Conquistadores, Uno and Dos. After winning a tag team battle royal and earning themselves a tag team title shot, they went on to the No Mercy pay-per-view to once again become the WWE Tag Team Champions. Eventually they started to team with Kurt Angle, forming ‘Team ECK’, a group that was later joined by Rhyno when he came in from Extreme Championship Wrestling in early 2001 to make ‘Team RECK’.

As the months passed, Edge and Christian once again regained the WWE Tag Team Championships in the second Tables, Ladders and Chairs match that took place, once again, at Wrestlemania X-Seven, with the help of their friend Rhyno. Just like the first ever TLC match seven months prior, Edge and Christian, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boys put on yet another classic performance.

At WWE’s King of the Ring pay-per-view, which took place on June 24th 2001, both Edge and Christian were to compete in semi-final matches in the King of The Ring tournament, Christian was set to take on Kurt Angle, while Edge was set to take on Rhyno. Unfortunately, Christian came up a little short and was defeated by Kurt Angle in the opening semi-final, Edge, on the other hand, went on to defeat both Rhyno and Kurt Angle to be named the 2001 King of the Ring. Christian appeared to be jealous of Edge and his rising success and insisted on carrying Edge’s trophy at each and every opportunity. Christian remained by Edge’s side, as he started to gain notoriety as a singles competitor.

A month after being crowned King of the Ring, Edge went on to Summerslam to defeat Lance Storm for the Intercontinental Championship, the first singles title he had earned ever since becoming a tag team, along with Christian. Not to be outdone, later that very same night, Christian announced that he would have a match for the European Championship, the next night on Monday Night Raw. Unfortunately, Christian was unable to equal Edge’s success, as Matt Hardy retained his European Championship. Christian’s jealousy finally got the better of him though, after being defeated by The Rock for the WCW Championship on the September 3rd 2001 edition of Monday Night Raw. Christian snapped, attacking his long-time tag team partner with his own King of the Ring trophy and hitting him with a move that they themselves had made famous, the Con-Chair-To.

Following the attack on Edge, Christian challenged him for his WWE Intercontinental Championship at the Unforgiven pay-per-view, in a Ladder match and successfully captured his first singles title since becoming a tag team, with his former partner, it was also the first time that he had captured the Intercontinental Championship in his career. As the rivalry between the two continued, Christian aligned himself with the WCW/ECW Alliance that the Superstars of the WWE were feuding with at the time and a month after becoming the Intercontinental Champion, for the first time, at No Mercy, again in a Ladder match, Edge defeated Christian to regain the Intercontinental Championship.

As his rivalry with Edge came to a close, Christian defeated Bradshaw to become the WWE European Champion, for the first time, months later he lost the championship to Diamond Dallas Page. After a series of defeats, Christian announced he was quitting the WWE, but Diamond Dallas Page persuaded Christian to reconsider, and adopted him as his protégé. Christian betrayed DDP and faced off against him for the European Championship a Wrestlemania X8, in which he was defeated DDP. During the same event, Christian defeated Mighty Molly to win the WWE Hardcore Championship, but lost the title to Maven moments later, on that very same night.

Months later, Christian formed an alliance with fellow Canadian wrestlers Lance Storm and Test in June 2002, calling themselves The Un-Americans. A short time after first forming the stable, Christian and Lance Storm went on to defeat Edge and Hulk Hogan at the July pay-per-view, Vengeance, were Christian captured his eighth WWE Tag Team Championship. Their Tag Team Championship right lasted two months, where they dominated each and every tag team that challenged them. Then came the September 23rd 2002 edition of Monday Night Raw, where Kane and a mystery tag team partner, later revealed to be The Hurricane, defeated Christian and Lance Storm for the WWE Tag Team Championships, after a misdirected shot that Lance Storm landed on Christian. The next week, Lance Storm was scheduled to take on the newest face on the scene, Randy Orton. Which Christian looking on, Lance Storm was defeated by the rookie and moments after Christian challenged Orton to a match to show Lance Storm how win a match. Unfortunately, Christian was also defeated by the rookie. There was contention amongst The Un-Americans and soon after, they disbanded.

The week after the separation of The Un-Americans, Raw General Manager, Eric Bischoff set up a special Raw Roulette night. One of the matches made were a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. Who else could participate than three of the original contenders that had taken part in the first two TLC matches, Christian, Bubba Ray Dudley and Jeff Hardy. But they had to venture out to look for their own tag team partners for the match, as the three teams were set to challenge for the WWE Tag Team Championships. Bubba Ray Dudley teamed up with his “brother” Spike Dudley, Jeff Hardy teamed up with Rob Van Dam and Christian teamed up with fellow Canadian Chris Jericho. In a match that was voted Greatest Raw Match Of The Decade, Kane, who was to defend the Tag Team Championship by himself, as his partner had been brutally attacked by Triple H and Ric Flair earlier, went on to retain the titles in a hellacious and historic match.

The next week however, Christian and Chris Jericho were given another shot at the WWE Tag Team Championships, in which they defeated Kane and The Hurricane, giving Christian his ninth WWE Tag Team Championship. After loosing their Tag Team Championships, on December 15th 2002 pay-per-view Armageddon, the two remained a team until Chris Jericho and the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, started a feud, which lead into Wrestlemania XIX. By himself, for the first time in nearly two years, Christian had little going for him, that is until he took some advice, from The Rock.

On May 18, 2003, at WWE’s Judgment Day pay-per-view, Christian went on to defeat Val Venis, Chris Jericho, Lance Storm, Test, Rob Van Dam, Kane, Goldust and Booker T in a 9-Man Battle Royal to win the Intercontinental Championship. The following night on Monday Night Raw, he appeared on Chris Jericho’s talk show, The Highlight Reel, with a completely new look. He started to call himself the new “People’s Champion”, after he had received advice and an endorsement from The Rock a month earlier. Even though he was no longer in the tag team mainstream, Christian continued his rivalry with Booker-T. In countless matches for the Intercontinental Championship, Booker-T finally clamed the title on July 7th 2003, but his title reign was short-lived, as he picked up a severe injury a few weeks later. On August 10th, at a live event, Christian regained the Intercontinental Championship, for the third time.

With Booker-T out injured, this gave many other wresters the opportunity to contend for Christian’s Intercontinental Championship. With tensions rising between Raw’s Co-General Manager, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Chris Jericho and Christian, matches between the two were set up, which caused a slight conflict between the two. Christian wanted to remain the Intercontinental Champion, whereas Chris Jericho wanted to add to his legacy and add another Intercontinental Championship reign to his list. The rivalry between the two was brief, after Rob Van Dam entered the picture. Though Christian thought he could outsmart Austin, by disqualifying both Chris Jericho and Rob Van am in a number one contenders match on the September 15, 2003 edition of Monday Night Raw, Austin set up a triple threat match for Christian’s championship at the upcoming Unforgiven pay-per-view. In a great showing beaten the three contenders, Christian retained the Intercontinental Championship, but went on to lose it two weeks later, to Rob Van Dam in an amazing Ladder match.

As time passed, Christian started to show some interest in WWE Diva, Lita. After being fired by Eric Bischoff and being dumped by her boyfriend, Matt Hardy, Christian cashed in his favour to the General Manager, which he earned as being apart of Bichoff’s Survivor Series team, the same team that cost Stone Cold Steve Austin his position as Co-General Manager, by getting Lita her job back. With his interest in Lita seemingly developing, a small feud started to transpire between Matt Hardy and Christian, soon after though, the world as well as Trish Stratus, learnt that Chris Jericho and Christian had placed a wager on who could ‘seal the deal’ first. The week after, Trish Stratus and Lita confronted and attacked Chris Jericho and Christian for discovering what their true intentions with the two Divas were. On that very night, Eric Bischoff set up yet another historic match, at Armageddon; it would be the team of Christian and Chris Jericho taking on the team of Lita and Trish Stratus, in a Battle Of The Sexes match. Even though the WWE Divas putting up a hell of a fight, it was Chris Jericho and Christian who walked out victorious.

The weeks went on and Chris Jericho revealed that even though everything started off from a bet, he truly was developing feelings for Trish Stratus. Christian, as a friend, tried to convince Jericho that Trist had no feelings for him, they would never be together and that she was just using his emotions to get the better of him, but to Trish, that seemed far from the truth. Jericho suffered a knee injury a week later that was furthered by an attack from Kane. With Jericho out for a few weeks, Christian tried to make peace with Trish, but Eric Bischoff had other plans and that night he set up a match between Christian and Trish Stratus. Before the match was set to take place, Trish met Christian in his locker room and they set up a plan for how the match would pan out. During that match, Christian decided to take matters into his own hands and double crossed Trish, after kicking out of an easy pin, hitting her with a brutal clothesline and making her tap out after subjecting her to the Walls Of Jericho. The week after, Christian took over Chris Jericho’s show, The Highlight Reel, to explain his actions, moments later he was interrupted by the returning Chris Jericho who slowly walked down the ramp and attacked Christian for his actions of the previous week. This set up a match between the two at Wrestlemania XX.

On March 14th 2004, at Wrestlemania XX, Christian and Chris Jericho were finally able to sort out their personal differences. In the closing few moments of the match, in a move that no-one saw coming, Trish, who had made her way down to ringside earlier, slapped Chris Jericho not once, but twice, which cost him the win. After the match, Trish looked down at the prone body of Jericho and moments later Christian hit Jericho with his signature manoeuvre, the Unprettier. The crowd, as well as Chris Jericho were left stunned as Trish and Christian walked up the ramp together and with Jericho looking on in the ring, they kissed, revealing that they had been playing Jericho for a pawn all along. The rivalry between Chris Jericho, Christian and Trish Stratus continued, into the next month’s pay-per-view, Backlash were Jericho was able to get the upper hand, as he defeated the two in a handicap match. The night after, Christian was able to get some payback as he defeated Jericho in a one-on-one match, after his newly appointed “Problem Solver” Tyson Tomko interfered in his behalf. A few weeks later, in a steel cage match, Jericho defeated Christian after locking him in the Walls of Jericho. As a result of that very match, Christian had suffered a few injures, which put him on the shelf for a few months.

It was on August 30th, on Monday Night Raw, when Christian made his long-awaited return to the WWE. Moments after Chris Jericho’s show, The Highlight Reel, when the injured Intercontinental Champion, Edge, was making his way up the ramp, Christian came from the crowd and attacked Jericho from behind, as Edge looked on. The week after, it was announced that Edge would miss around six weeks of action, due to the injury that he had suffered previously, which meant that he was forced to give up his Intercontinental Championship. With the title vacant, both Christian and Jericho demanded a shot at the championship and General Manager Eric Bischoff set up a match between the two at the upcoming Unforgiven pay-per-view, but it wasn’t any ordinary match, it would be a match that both Christian and Jericho where suitable for, a Ladder match. In yet another amazing showing between the two, it was Chris Jericho who came out the victor and became the new Intercontinental Champion.

In late 2004 and early 2005, Christian started to complete in tag team matches again, this time with his original tag team partner, Edge, after three years, E&C were back together, but this was majorly because Christian was facing Edge’s rivals at the time. This reunion was cut short though, as for the first time in history, at Wrestlemania 21, Edge as well as Christian, Chris Jericho, Shelton Benjamin, Chris Benoit and Kane, would take part in the first ever Money In The Bank Ladder match, where the winner would have a guaranteed title shot whenever and wherever they deemed fit, Edge of course walked out the winner of the match.

A few weeks after Wrestlemania, the Chairman of the WWE Vince McMahon, announced that the annual WWE Draft would begin two months later. Remembering his encounter with Smackdown Superstar, John Cena, a few months earlier at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Christian began commenting on the current WWE Champion. He claimed that he was a better rapper than Cena and at the Backlash pay-per-view on May 1st 2005, Christian proved that he had at least some rhyming ability, while at the same time insulting some of the WWE Superstars from both Smackdown and Raw.

Then, on the June 6th 2005 edition of Monday Night Raw, in a shocking move, the WWE Champion John Cena was drafted to the show, appearing on the Highlight Reel. Moments later, Christian made his presence known, interrupting the WWE Champion. It was the confrontation that many had been waiting for. After a few heated words between the two, Christian attacked Cena, but the WWE Champion stood triumphant as he cleared the ring of Captain Charisma and his Problem Solver.

With the draft still in effect, Chris Jericho formed an allegiance once again with Christian after a tag team match, which pitted the team of John Cena and Chris Jericho again Christian and Tyson Tomko. On that very same night Eric Bischoff set up a match for the Vengeance pay-per-view, which was set to take place two weeks later. It would be Christian, Chris Jericho and John Cena for the WWE Championship in a Triple Threat match, this was actually Christian’s first ever opportunity in his career to capture the WWE Championship. Leading up to Vengeance, Christian and Jericho’s rivalry started to take shape one last time, but it was all in vain after John Cena defeated both Canadians after hitting Christian with his finishing manoeuvre.

In the next week, Christian who took part in the main event on Monday Night Raw, was drafted to Smackdown, where he took place in the main event once again. During his time there, Christian revived his feud with Booker-T and gained even more notoriety by officially starting his own talk show, which he aptly named ‘The Peep Show’. On October 30th 2005, the world was shocked to learn that Christian had decided to leave the WWE, his last appearance for the company was on the November 4th 2005 edition on Smackdown.

When Christian had decided to leave the WWE, fans were left asking, will we ever see Christian on our screens again? Thankfully we didn’t have to wait for the answer for very long. Two weeks after his last televised WWE match, in a shocking move on November 19th 2005, Christian appeared on TNA’s Genesis pay-per-view. TNA were deemed as a rival company by many and Christian was the first major WWE Superstar to make the jump to the company. In usual style, Christian made himself known by having some of the best matches, in his short stay with TNA. Personal rivalries were made and revived, collations were formed and friendships were tested, but Christian always made the best out of any situation.

During February’s pay-per-view, Against All Odds which took place on February 12th 2006, Christian, who had gained the status of number one contender at the Turning Point pay-per-view event two months earlier, was set to take on ‘The King of the Mountain’ Jeff Jarrett, for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. On that night, Christian won his first ever World Title. He proved the doubters and naysayers wrong; he proved to himself that he had what it took to become, The Champ.

Months later, on January 14th 2007, on TNA’s Final Resolution pay-per-view, Christian once again became NWA World Heavyweight Champion, after defeating both Sting and Abyss in a triple-threat elimination match. This time he proved that becoming the NWA World Champion was never a fluke, it was what he had deserved for many years. But people still wanted to know, could he ever do the same thing in WWE?

Those questions arose once more after Christian decided to leave TNA at the end of November 2008. Four months later, on February 10th 2009, Christian shocked the world, once again. On that very same night, with the ECW Champion Jack Swagger in the ring, Christian made his long-awaited return to the WWE, on their ECW brand. Not only did he make his return to the company, but he made his in-ring return too, ECW General Manager set up the main event, which pitted the ECW Champion against the returning Captain Charisma, Christian. In his first match in the WWE in four years, Christian came out the victor after hitting Swagger with the Killswitch for the pin.

In the following weeks, Christian qualified for the annual Money In The Bank Ladder match at The 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania, a match and an event that he had not been apart of in four years. CM Punk ultimately emerged the victor and became the first man to ever win two consecutive Money In The Bank Ladder matches. After Wrestlemania dust had settled, the acting ECW General Manager Tiffany, set up at elimination chase for the ECW Championship, the participants were Mark Henry, Finlay, Tommy Dreamer and of course, Christian. Over the next few weeks, leading up to the Backlash pay-per-view, Christian came out the sole survivor of the chase and earned a title shot against Jack Swagger for the ECW Championship at Backlash.

On April 26th 2009, Christian defeated Jack Swagger for the ECW Championship, his first major singles title since stepping foot back into the WWE. On that very same night, moments later, for the first time in four years, Christian and his former long time tag team partner, Edge, where face-to-face. Christian’s rivalry with Jack Swagger would continue onto the next month’s pay-per-view, Judgment Day, where again Christian defeated Swagger and retained his ECW Championship. After Judgment Day however, the ECW Original Tommy Dreamer became involved in the ECW Championship picture. With his contract running out, Tommy Dreamer put his career on the line and guaranteed that if he didn’t win the ECW Championship at the upcoming Extreme Rules pay-per-view, in a Triple Threat match against the champion Christian and Jack Swagger, he would leave ECW and WWE altogether. Fortunately for Dreamer, he was able to capture the ECW Championship at the pay-per-view after pinning Jack Swagger, for the win.

In the weeks following, Christian once again became the number one contender for the ECW Championship, after defeating Vladimir Kozlov. Christian went on to defeat Tommy Dreamer for the ECW Championship at the Night of Champions pay-per-view, were he started his second reign as ECW Champion. After defeating the former champion Tommy Dreamer in his rematch, to retain the ECW Championship, William Regal then surfaced into championship contention. As their feud intensified, William Regal joined forced with Vladimir Kozlov and Ezekiel Jackson. At the Summerslam pay-per-view, held in August, William Regal had his first opportunity to capture the ECW Championship from Christian, but in a historic turn of events, Christian was able to defeat Regal in eight seconds to remain the champion. At the end of the night, Regal, Kozlov and Jackson had the last laugh, as they attacked Christian during his celebration and left him laying face down on the mat. William Regal was given another shot at the ECW Championship at the following pay-per-view, Breaking Point. Where in honourable fashion, Christian and Regal had one hell of a match, Christian was able to hold on to his ECW Championship after hitting the Killswitch on Regal.

As the months passed, new challengers for the ECW Championship started to reveal themselves, from Zack Ryder to Yoshi Tatsu, but near the end of the year, Christian renewed yet another rivalry, this time with Shelton Benjamin, but now, it was for the ECW Championship. At the first ever TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, pay-per-view, Christian and Shelton Benjamin stole the show in the opening contest where the ECW Championship was on the line, in a Ladder match. Once again, Christian walked out still the ECW Champion. The New Year brought yet another new contender, in the form of Ezekiel Jackson. On countless occasions Christian emerged the victor, but on the last ever episode of ECW, which took place on February 16th 2010, Ezekiel Jackson defeated Christian and became the last ever ECW Champion.

When ECW closed it’s doors, Christian was brought in as a Pro for WWE’s new show NXT. Christian was partnered up with NXT rookie Heath Slater and the pair worked really well together. Slater made it to the second to last week of the competition, which was eventually won by Chris Jericho’s NXT rookie, Wade Barrett.

During his time in NXT, Christian also became a new member of the Raw roster where he competed against third generation Superstar Ted DiBiase Jr., in a series of matches. He also competed in yet another Money In The Bank Ladder match at Wrestlemania 26, which was won by Jack Swagger. But then, on April 26th 2010 during WWE’s annual Draft, Christian was drafted over to Friday Night Smackdown.

On his first night as apart of the Smackdown roster, Christian interpreted his former tag team partner Edge, as he gave a farewell speech to the Smackdown crowd. After calling Edge a liar, Edge revealed his true colours and after Christian mentioned that people wouldn’t want to see Edge and Christian reunite, they would rather see Edge vs. Christian, Edge refused and the two ended up in a brawl. A few weeks later however, Christian would appear on Monday Night Raw, supposedly being chosen to be Edge’s opponent in a Pick Your Poison match, in a great showing between the two, Edge defeated Christian, but we later found out that Christian was not who Randy Orton had chosen to be Edge’s opponent, in fact, it was The Undertaker. After getting himself intentionally disqualified, Christian threw Edge back into the ring to get hit with a tombstone, by The Undertaker.

Months passed as Christian feuded with several Superstars, including Dolph Ziggler, Matt Hardy, Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes. With WWE’s newest pay-per-view, Money In The Bank, coming up, Christian along with Kane The Big Show, Kofi Kingston, Matt Hardy, Drew McIntyre, Dolph Ziggler and Cody Rhodes, were announced as the contenders for the Smackdown rosters Money In The Bank ladder match, in which Kane came out victorious and went on to win the World Heavyweight Championship, from Rey Mysterio, that very same night. Soon after, a new face appeared on the Smackdown scene, after weeks of countless promos Alberto Del Rio finally made his presence felt, by attacking and ultimately injuring Rey Mysterio. With Rey Mysterio being a friend, Christian let Del Rio know that he didn’t appreciate what he had done the week before and then challenged him to a fight, which Del Rio wanted no part of.

The following week, after defeating Matt Hardy, Alberto Del Rio started to attack him just like he did Rey Mysterio a few weeks prior, but Christian made his was out and quickly made the save. Again, Del Rio wanted no part of Christian. On the September 24, 2010 edition of Friday Night Smackdown, Alberto Del Rio attacked Christian backstage. Later that very same night, Del Rio announced that he was finally ready for a match against Christian, but there was no way that Christian would any part of him as he referred to the earlier attack. Christian’s music hit as he came to the ring and attacked Del Rio. Christian had the upper hand until Del Rio’s ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez, grabbed Christian’s leg. Del Rio started to attack Christian and locked on the cross arm breaker, Christian rolled out of the ring straight after. Del Rio grabbed a steel chair and trapped Christian’s left arm in it, he then rammed Christian’s arm into the ring post and walked away, leaving the medical team to check on Christian. It was later revealed that Christian had suffered a torn pectoral muscle, by the hands of Alberto Del Rio that would put him on the sidelines for up to six months.

While Christian was at home, recovering from his torn pectoral muscle, Alberto Del Rio was quickly rising through the ranks in the WWE. Christian had to sit and watch as Del Rio continuously mocked the fact that he had taken Christian out of action, he had to watch as Del Rio fulfilled his destiny of winning the 2011 Royal Rumble match and earn the right to main event the biggest show of the year, Wrestlemania. The next night, on Monday Night Raw, Alberto Del Rio chose to challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship, which at that point was being help by Christian’s best friend, Edge, on the biggest stage of the all.

Edge vs. Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania 27, was not set in stone. First, Edge had to get through a gruelling Elimination Chamber match, on February’s pay-per-view of the same name. After being on of the first competitors of the match, Edge outlasted Big Show, Rey Mysterio, Kane, Wade Barrett and Drew McIntyre to emerge victorious and remain the World Heavyweight Champion. His victory was short-lived, however, after Alberto Del Rio attacked the retaining champion, straight after his win. But, moments later ‘Captain Charisma’ made his shocking return, saving his former tag-team partner from Del Rio’s assault.

On the following edition of Friday Night Smackdown it was announced that Christian would be making his official return to the WWE the week after, but of course Christian had other plans. With the official contract signing for the World Heavyweight Championship match at Wrestlemania scheduled to take place that night, Smackdown General Manager Theodore Long requested that both Edge and Alberto Del Rio would not let the signing turn out like so many others in the past, into a fight. But, unfortunately for him, things didn’t turn out exactly how the General Manager wanted, thankfully, Edge gave him full warning and he hastily left the ring. All was going Edge’s way, until Del Rio’s personal ring announcer Ricardo Rodriguez caused a distraction for Edge, just as he was setting up for his signature Spear. As Del Rio continued his attack on the current World Heavyweight Champion, memories of his attack on Christian months before seemed to be settling in, as Del Rio hooked Edge’s arm in a steel chair and prepared to ram his arm into the steel ring post. All of a sudden, Christian appeared from the back and assaulted Del Rio from behind, stopping his attack on Edge from going any further. Christian was able to get a few shots in, on the man that cost him six months of his career, but was stopped by several WWE officials.

The week after, another historic moment occurred, for the first time in 5 years (10 years on Smackdown), Edge and Christian would reunite to take on the team of Brodus Clay and Alberto Del Rio. It may have been five years since the legendary tag-team worked together in a match, but neither of them missed a beat. The team of E&C, Edge and Christian, showed their opponents and everyone else around the world just why they are still known as on of the best tag teams in history.

As Wrestlemania 27 drew closer, Christian was given two more opportunities to exact at least some revenge on Alberto Del Rio for what he had done in the past and, at the same time, soften him up for Edge in their World Heavyweight Championship match.

The first of these matches pitted the two talented Superstars in a steel cage. The match was as punishing as it was amazing, as the two tried to outdo each other every second. Even though Christian emerged the victor of the battle, it was Edge who paid the sacrifice. As Christian celebrated his win, Del Rio, who had reached the floor moments after, attacked Christian, throwing him behind the guard rail. As he was about to continue the assault Edge served as a distraction, driving Del Rio’s car into the arena and threatening to damage it with the steel chair that he had brought along. Unfortunately for Edge, he was attacked from behind by Brodus Clay and then his left arm was subjected to a Con-Chair-To, by the hands of Alberto Del Rio.

The second match that was set up between the two was just as memorable, but because of the actions of Alberto Del Rio the week before, the Smackdown General Manager made ruling in which neither Edge or Alberto Del Rio could lay a hand on each other, if they did, their Wrestlemania event would lose whoever hit the other first. After winning yet another physical match, Edge was left alone in the ring with Del Rio and a steel chair was in his hands. Christian had to move quickly in order to stop his best friend from what would have been on of the biggest mistakes at that point in time, he pulled the steel chair out of Edge’s hands, in order for him not to lose his World Heavyweight Championship, but there was no ruling against him attacking Del Rio, so he hit Del Rio with a chair shot to the back instead.

Finally the day came, April 3rd 2011. Wrestlemania 27. The opening match, Edge, with Christian in his corner, retained his World Heavyweight Championship in the opening bout. The match went back and forth; as Alberto Del Rio did everything that he could possibly do to walk out of Atlanta the World Heavyweight Champion, but in the end, he feel short. Christian provided the back-up that Edge needed to retain his championship as Brodus Clay tried to cost Edge the title which ever way that he could. After the hard fought match, both Edge and Christian destroyed the car the Del Rio had driven to the arena in, as he looked on from only a few feet away.

During the following Friday Night Smackdown, General Manager Theodore Long, set up a number one contender’s match, between Christian and Alberto Del Rio, where the winner would go on to the next pay-per-view, Extreme Rules and challenge Edge for his World Heavyweight Championship, in a match that both he and Christian helped made famous, a Ladder match. In another amazing match between the two, with Edge sitting at ringside, Christian came up short as he was distracted by Brodus Clay, who was standing at ringside, momentarily, which gave Del Rio an ample opportunity to hit Christian with an enziguiri and successfully become the number one contender for Edge’s World Heavyweight Championship, once more. Christian’s hopes of becoming a World Heavyweight Champion were once again dashed, in a mere matter of seconds.

Then, on April 11th 2011, during Monday Night Raw, Christian’s best friend of 27 years, Edge, made the shocking announcement that because of the injuries that he had sustained during his 13 years in the WWE, he was being forced to retire from active competition. In a later interview, referring to Edge’s sudden retirement, Christian mentioned that it was a tremendous loss to WWE and to the millions of fans around the world, but as any friend would say, he wanted Edge to be healthy. He recalled that the two of them became friends because of professional wrestling, as they both grew older they realised that being a professional wrestler was the one thing that they wanted to do with their lives. They started their careers at essentially the same time, they travelled around the world together even though they had no idea where they would end up, in the end and all that mattered was that they were talking the journey together. He also admitted that as soon as he saw Edge step through the ropes into the ring, he started to cry. But after he shed his tears, he decided that from that point on, he would celebrate the career of his best friend, who was able to live his ultimate dream and who he had regarded to as having one of the greatest careers in WWE history. In the same interview, he mentioned that from the moment that Edge had announced his retirement, every time that he would step into the ring, there would be a little piece of Edge that will always be with him, for the rest of his career.

But with that huge loss, came a huge opportunity. There was still a match in place for the Extreme Rules pay-per-view which was scheduled to take place two weeks later, but a new number one contender needed to be named. During the April 15th edition of Friday Night Smackdown, the same night that Edge was forced to relinquish the very same belt that he had defended two weeks prior on the grandest stage of them all, Wrestlemania, a new number one contender was to be determined by a 20-man Battle Royal. Against all of the odds and with Alberto Del Rio’s failed attempt at a distraction, Christian gained the opportunity to have the chance to win what his best friend was forced to give up moments earlier. Once Christian had emerged the winner, much to the dismay of his opponent Alberto Del Rio, Edge made his way out to the ring, to congratulate his friend on gaining the very same opportunity that Edge had been given so many times before, in the past.

The week after, the World Heavyweight Championship was suspended above the ring. After clearing the ring of Alberto Del Rio and his entourage, with Edge looking on from the ramp, Christian set up a ladder and for the first time, he laid his hands on something that had been eluding him for nearly 13 years, the World Heavyweight Championship. As he held the title in his arms he stared at it and then slowly raised that very same championship above his head, looking out at the crowd on the top of the ladder. From that point on, he knew that winning the World Heavyweight Championship would be his destiny.

On the April 29th edition of Friday Night Smackdown, the last show before the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, Christian was interviewed by Matt Striker backstage. In that interview Christian openly admitted to the entire world that with his recent injury, he question himself. During those six months of tough physical therapy, he asked himself, what if? What if he couldn’t live up to his true potential? What if he couldn’t reach the ultimate prize that he has been after for so many years? What if his career was over? But Christian never let those thoughts cloud his mind, he was determined on returning to the WWE, to settle the score with the man that cost him six months in his career, Alberto Del Rio. He reflected on the major announcement that Edge, his best friend of 27 years, had made a few weeks prior, but noted that he felt as if he could have only been in the right place at the right time. His thoughts lead him to question himself, yet again. He also made the point that he had never touched the World Heavyweight Championship until the week before because he never felt that he had earned the right to touch it, but with his chance at becoming the new World Heavyweight Champion coming up at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, he knew that it was his destiny to climb the ladder, in the middle of the ring and finally claim what he had been working so hard for.

Then, on that night, May 1st 2011, in what many regarded to as the match of the night, Alberto Del Rio and Christian put on one hell of a show. Both men put their bodies on the line to fulfil their destinies and to become the World Heavyweight Champion.

In the end, with the help of a distraction from his best friend, Edge, the man that he had paid homage to by using his signature manoeuvre, the Spear, moments before and the man who had to give up the very title that both Christian and Alberto Del Rio were fighting so hard for, Christian slowly ascended the very same ladder that he had just pushed Del Rio off of, sending him tumbling down to the outside of the ring, landing on top of his ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez and his protégé, Brodus Clay. With Edge at ringside, the thousands in attendance and the millions at home, cheering him on, Christian unhooked the World Heavyweight Championship and finally fulfilled his ultimate goal. As he soaked in every second of that moment, he raised the championship title above his head as the thousands in attendance stood on their feet, cheering and Tony Chimel announced Christian as the New World Heavyweight Champion. Edge, who was still at ringside looked up to the top of the ladder, at his best friend, letting him have his moment, a moment that he had worked so hard for, a moment that he truly deserved.

When Edge stepped through the ropes, Christian cradled his newly acquired championship as his friend applauded. Christian said a few words to himself, as the crowd continued to cheer and once again, he raised his championship above his head. As he stepped down from the ladder, he looked up at Edge who picked him up to his feet and they embraced. Few words were spoken between the two as Christian finally realised just what he had just done. Edge, his best friend, the man who had to retire due to injury a few weeks before and was forced to give up his World Heavyweight Championship, raised Christian’s hand. Moments later, Edge left Christian alone in the ring, to soak in his moment once again. Still cradling his newly won championship, Christian looked out to the crowd and said ‘Thank You’. As he continued his historic moment, Christian climbed the turnbuckle and one last time, raised the World Heavyweight Championship above his head. In his own hometown of Tampa, Florida, he came into the Extreme Rules pay-per-view as one of the most underrated wrestlers that have never won ‘the big one’, in the WWE and he left the New World Heavyweight Champion.

Just like that, after a gruelling 13 year journey, in one second, Christian finally earned the right to be known as the World Heavyweight Champion.

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The results have been calculated and I have to say, they were very interesting to say the least. To see the list, as voted by the Peeps, be sure click the link below!

On the August 17, 2006 edition of TNA iMPACT!, he went on to explain, during a sit-down interview with TNA commentator Mike Tenay, that he attacked Sting because he felt Sting did not show enough passion during the encounter to “get the job done” and win the title. The week after, Cage came down to the ring where he addressed his attack on Sting further, until he was interrupted by Rhino. After a small debate, Rhino attacked Cage, starting a brawl between the two which came to an end after Cage laid Rhino’s head on a steel chair, picked up another chair, and hit Rhino with a one man con-chair-to.

This led to Cage facing Abyss at TNA’s Lockdown PPV event on April 23, 2006 in a Six Sides of Steel cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, with Cage prevailing. After the match, Cage attempted to attack Mitchell and gain revenge for all his recent evil deeds against Cage and his family. Abyss, however, stopped him. By taking a steel chain, wrapping it around Cage’s neck and attempting to hang him with it until he passed out. Abyss and Mitchell then stole the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt and left the arena. The feud between Abyss and Mitchell and Cage continued until TNA’s Sacrifice PPV event on May 14, 2006, where Cage defeated Abyss and regained the NWA Title belt under Full Metal Mayhem rules,where finally gained revenge on Abyss.

Some time after, we all found out that this mysterious figure was Christian, Edge’s brother, allying him with Gangrel, who at the time was feuding with Edge. In the coming weeks, Edge was finally persuaded to join this alliance with Gangrel and Christian, where they became known as The Brood.

Accompanied by Gangrel, Christian won his first and only Light Heavyweight Championship, in his very first match with Edge, his brother, looking on from the stands.

Shockingly, we saw Trish slap Jericho, not once, but twice and then we found out that Trish and Christian had this planned out all along, they had a relationship going on behind the back of, what seemed like, their best friend Chris Jericho. On March 14, 2004, at Wrestlemania XX, Christian and Trish Stratus, who we all came to know simply as Tristian, came to be.

In the finals of the competition to become No. 1 contender for the ECW Championship, Christian pinned Finlay to advance to the pay-per-view on April 26, 2009. At the event, Christian defeated Jack Swagger to win the ECW Championship, his first world heavyweight championship in WWE and his third overall.

During his in-ring promo, was greeted by Scott D’Amore and Robert Roode who had invited him to join Team Canada and later in the night Christian Cage showed exactly who he was sided with, by putting then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Jeff Jarrett through a table, along with Team 3D.

At TNA’s Final Resolution PPV event on January 15, 2006, Cage participated in his first TNA PPV main event by teaming with Sting to defeat the team of Monty Brown and Jeff Jarrett. A month later, Cage went on to defeat then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jarrett for the title on February 12, 2006 at TNA’s Against All Odds PPV event.

At the Summerslam pay-per-view, which was held on August 19, 2001, Edge took on Lance Storm, successfully, winning the Intercontinental Championship for the second time. With their rivarly heating up, Lance Storm attacked Edge on the September 3, 2001 Edge put his Intercontinental Championship on the line against fellow Canadian Lance Storm. Edge retained his championship after a physical bout. After the match, Storm went to assault Edge with a steel chair when Christian ran down to the ring with a chair of his own, running off Storm. The two brothers embraced, and then Christian gave Edge his King of the Ring trophy. As Edge stood there, Christian wound smacked Edge over the head with his chair. Christian then screamed at Edge and threw the trophy into his stomach. As Edge lie in pain, Christian continued to hit his brother with the chair.

Four months later, on the February 10, 2009 edition of ECW, then-ECW Champion Jack Swagger opened up the show, mentioning that he had been victimized and embarrassed for the past few weeks before. Swagger then demanded to see Hornswoggle, in the ring. At that moment, music hit, but it wasn’t Hornswoggle’s it was the music of the returning Christian, making his first WWE television appearance in three years!

In typical style, Christian proceeded to run down Swagger and challenged the victor of his match with Finlay to a future title encounter. It wouldn’t be the last time Christian would appear on the show, either. As Swagger was explaining to Teddy Long that he was taking the night off, the ECW GM had other ideas. He booked Swagger into a non-title match with Christian. Later that night, after hitting the Killswitch (what was earlier known as the Unprettier) on Jack Swagger, Christian successfully defeated the ECW Champion, winning his first match back with the company.

This was where Captain Charisma was essentially born!

This result would be the exact same at Wrestlemania X-Seven, where TLC 2 took place, where this time The Dudley Boys walked into the the pay-per-view as the WWE Tag Team Champions, this time Edge and Christian won to regain the titles with some help from Rhyno.

In what came to be known as “the forgotten TLC match” TLC 3, which took place on the May 24, 2001 edition of Smackdown, The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boys and Edge and Christian where joined by the team of Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho. The end result came as a shock to many, as the newcomers, Benoit and Jericho, walked out of Smackdown the new WWE Tag Team Champions, in another hard fought match. This is still the only TLC match that has ever taken place on an edition of Smackdown.

On the October 7, 2002 edition on Monday Night Raw, then General Manager Eric Bischoff held the first ever Raw Roulette where he forced Bubba-Ray Dudley, Jeff Hardy & Christian to take part in yet another TLC match, the only catch was, they had to find their own partners to take on the team of The Hurricane and Kane, who were the WWE Tag Team Champions at the time. During the course of the night Christian chose Chris Jericho to be his tag team partner, Bubba Ray chose Spike Dudley and Jeff Hardy chose Rob Van Dam to be his tag team partner. Prior to the match The Hurricane was attacked by Triple H and Ric Flair, which took him out of the match and left Kane to defend their tag team titles single-handedly. Shockingly, Kane successfully defended the titles in yet another classic match up.

Many TLC matches have come and gone, many have had their own special moments and even now the TLC match has become such a historic stipulation that it has it’s own pay-per-view. But none of this would be possible if it wasn’t for Edge and Christian, The Dudley Boys and The Hardy Boyz, as well as many others, who collectively put this match on the map. No matter how you see it, the very first Tables, Ladders and Chairs match will always go down as one of the best matches in history!