72 Facts About Christian Cage

Christian Cage is signed to All Elite Wrestling, where he is the leader of The Patriarchy stable.

Christian Cage is a former two-time AEW TNT Champion and a one-time AEW World Trios Champion.

Christian Cage is recognized for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Christian Cage wrestled in Canadian independent promotions early in his career, where he competed in singles and tag team competition with his best friend Edge.

Edge and Christian formed a tag team and gained notoriety for their participation in Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches.

Christian Cage left TNA in late 2008 and re-signed with WWE in 2009, where he won the ECW Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship twice each until retiring in 2014 due to concussion issues.

Christian Cage was the 23rd Triple Crown Champion and 11th Grand Slam Champion in WWE history.

In total, between WWE, AEW, and TNA, Christian Cage has won 26 championships, including seven world championships and nine tag team titles.

Christian Cage has headlined multiple pay-per-view events between WWE, TNA and AEW, and was one of WWE's most prolific pay-per-view performers.

Christian Cage played ice hockey and was a wrestling fan as a child.

Christian Cage lived in Huntsville and East Luther-Grand Valley before moving to Orangeville, where he met Adam "Edge" Copeland, who became his best friend and tag team partner.

Christian Cage's wrestling career began in June 1995 in a match against Zakk Wyld, which resulted in a draw.

Christian Cage lost the title to Gillberg a month later.

Christian Cage was given the character of a vampire and formed an alliance with Gangrel and Edge, who was finally persuaded to join what became known as The Brood.

Squad in a six-man tag team match, then they briefly feuded with The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness and later joining the team, but upon learning that Christian Cage was beaten into telling Ken Shamrock the whereabouts of Stephanie McMahon, The Undertaker punished Christian Cage by flogging him.

At WrestleMania 2000 on April 2, Edge and Christian Cage defeated The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz to win their first WWF Tag Team Championship in a triangle ladder match, which ultimately led to the creation of the Tables, Ladders and Chairs match.

The next night on Raw Is War, The Hardy Boyz dressed as the Los Conquistadores and defeated Edge in a handicap match after Christian Cage was taken out backstage to regain the WWF Tag Team Championship.

At the Royal Rumble on January 21,2001, Edge and Christian Cage lost the WWF Tag Team Championship to The Dudley Boyz.

Christian Cage briefly turned face to help feud with The Alliance.

Christian Cage turned heel shortly afterward, resulting in the two feuding for Edge's WWF Intercontinental Championship for several months.

Christian Cage began throwing tantrums in his gimmick at the time whenever things did not go his way and during the same event defeated Mighty Molly to win the WWF Hardcore Championship, but lost the title to Maven later that night.

On January 19,2003, Christian Cage entered the Royal Rumble match at the Royal Rumble and was eliminated by Jericho.

At WrestleMania XX on March 14,2004, Christian Cage faced Jericho in a singles match with Stratus on Jericho's side, but Stratus accidentally struck Jericho, allowing Christian Cage to defeat Jericho.

Stratus then joined forces with Christian Cage, becoming his on-screen girlfriend in the process.

Christian Cage announced his intentions to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship held by Jeff Jarrett and rejected joining Scott D'Amore's faction, Team Canada.

At Final Resolution on January 15,2006, Christian Cage teamed with Sting to defeat the team of Monty Brown and Jeff Jarrett.

Christian Cage then allowed Jarrett to pin Sting and retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Christian Cage went on to explain later in the episode 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 NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Christian Cage fought for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Final Resolution on January 14,2007 against Abyss and Sting, this time in a three-way elimination match that he won by pinning Sting after Abyss was already eliminated to win the championship.

Christian Cage went on to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Angle at Against All Odds with Joe as the unofficial special outside enforcer.

NWA Executive Director Robert K Trobich stated the reason was that Cage refused to defend the NWA world title at NWA live events.

Christian Cage, still holding the physical NWA world title belt, defended what was billed as the World Heavyweight Championship against Sting and Angle, who was the victor of said contest by making Sting submit and was announced as the new World Heavyweight Champion.

At Slammiversary, Christian Cage failed to defeat the four other men and win the title as Angle hung the title belt to become the new and undisputed TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

Christian Cage lost the tournament final the second time around at Genesis.

Later in the night, Styles and Tomko helped Angle retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during the main event as Christian Cage looked on from the ramp.

In 2012, Reso made a one night return to TNA at Slammiversary 10 under his old ring name Christian Cage to announce the number one moment in TNA history as voted by the TNA fans.

At Know Your Enemy: Night 2 event on May 27,2006, Christian Cage fought against the champion Abyss and Corino for the 1PW World Heavyweight Championship in a three-way dance, but failed to win as Corino gained the fall and the title.

Later that night, Christian Cage defeated Swagger in his first match back.

Christian Cage won an elimination chase tournament to become the number one contender to the ECW Championship, gaining a title match at Backlash.

In late December 2009, Christian Cage became the longest reigning WWE-era ECW Champion.

At the Royal Rumble on January 31,2010, Christian Cage successfully defended the ECW Championship against Ezekiel Jackson.

Christian Cage was drafted back to the SmackDown brand by the WWE draft.

In September 2010, Christian Cage tore his pectoral muscle and was expected to be sidelined for approximately six months.

Christian Cage made his return from injury at Elimination Chamber on February 20,2011, saving Edge from an attack by Del Rio.

At Elimination Chamber on February 19,2012, Christian Cage returned from his injury to show support for John Laurinaitis.

That same week on SmackDown, Christian Cage defeated Randy Orton and Rob Van Dam in a triple threat match to become number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship, after which he was attacked by Del Rio during a post-match interview.

Christian Cage returned and appeared on the 2013 Slammy Awards, where he presented an award and appeared in a segment involving John Cena and Randy Orton.

Christian Cage returned on the January 31,2014 episode of SmackDown to defeat Jack Swagger in a qualifying match for the Elimination Chamber match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

Pro Wrestling Insider corroborated Lawler's statement, adding that because of multiple concussions and other injuries, the company considered Christian Cage retired as an active wrestler.

At the Raw 25 Years event on January 22,2018, Christian Cage hosted The Peep Show with special guests Jason Jordan and Seth Rollins, but it was later interrupted by The Bar.

In October 2019, Christian Cage started appearing as a regular contributor on WWE Backstage.

Christian Cage, who had no offense in the match, quickly lost after a low blow from Ric Flair, which was followed by a punt kick from Orton.

At Clash of Champions, Christian Cage got revenge on Orton by attacking him during his ambulance match against Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship.

Christian Cage then appeared as a surprise entrant in the 2021 Royal Rumble match, entering at number 24 and lasting over 18 minutes before being eliminated by Seth Rollins.

Reso made his surprise debut for All Elite Wrestling as Christian Cage and signed a multi-year contract at Revolution on March 7,2021.

At the Revolution event on March 6,2022, Christian Cage competed in the Face of the Revolution ladder match for a future opportunity at the AEW TNT Championship, but the match was won by Wardlow.

Christian Cage would initiate a rivalry with Jungle Boy, mocking him for the death of his father, famed actor Luke Perry.

Christian Cage returned from his injury on the February 15,2023 episode of Dynamite, attacking Jungle Boy.

Christian Cage is literally doing some of the best work of his career, and he is currently one of the most entertaining things on either Collision OR Dynamite.

Christian Cage then started a new storyline where he claimed to be the AEW TNT Champion and would carry the championship around with him, despite the actual champion being Luchasaurus.

Christian Cage's faction was later called The Patriarchy, with Christian Cage being recognized as "The Patriarch" of the faction.

At Worlds End, Christian Cage lost the title to Copeland, ending his reign at 98 days.

Immediately after the match, Christian Cage demanded and invoked Killswitch's AEW TNT Championship title shot and defeated Copeland to win the AEW TNT Championship for the second time.

Later in the show, Christian Cage won a Casino Gauntlet match to earn the right to challenge for the AEW World Championship whenever he wants.

At Revolution on March 9,2025, Christian Cage cashed in his contract in the main event between Moxley and Cope making it a three-way match but failed to win the title when he was choked out by Moxley.

Christian Cage was then confronted by Brian Myers, his challenger at Emergence, a match which Cage won.

Christian Cage then retained his title against Ace Austin at Victory Road.

Christian Cage hosted a talk show segment called The Peep Show which sometimes gets co-hosted by Edge called The Cutting Edge Peep Show.

Christian Cage utilized a spear as tribute to his best friend Edge, as well as a frog splash in memory of Eddie Guerrero.

In 2007, TNA Home Video released a DVD titled The Instant Classic: Christian Cage, covering his beginnings in the independent circuit and other various subjects up to his second NWA World Heavyweight Championship reign.

In September 2015, Edge and Christian Cage were guests on the Stone Cold Steve Austin Podcast, which aired on the WWE Network.

Edge and Christian Cage were the hosts and stars of a WWE Network sketch comedy series titled The Edge and Christian Cage Show That Totally Reeks of Awesomeness, which had two seasons, the first of which aired from February to May 2016 with the second from November 2018 to February 2019.