Christian Cage Recalls Time He Was Frustrated While Working in WWE

In an interview with Chris van Vliet for Insight (via Wrestling Inc), Christian Cage spoke about his time in WWE and times that he felt frustrated while working for the company. Cage is currently in AEW and is a former two-time TNT champion. One moment was a time he wrestled Batista in 2005, who was a babyface, while he worked as a heel. He noted that the crowds were cheering for him but WWE went as far as to remove that reaction from the taped footage.

He said: “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 Cena and 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.’“