While on the newest edition of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Christian Cage discussed a wide range of topics.
During it, the former AEW TNT Champion discussed wanting to make the championship feel more prestigious.
“And you know how wrestling fans are, right? Nothing’s ever good enough. So, when my name was announced (to be joining AEW), there were some people that were obviously, you know, thinking it was going to be somebody else, maybe hoping it was going to be somebody else. I mean, there were a lot of people that were happy it was me too. But, when you do something like that that’s not a surprise, when you hype something, you’re giving people the opportunity to have an opinion. Either good or bad and they’re gonna voice that after.
I heard all those things that were said after, that maybe it wasn’t big enough for the hype and all those sorts of things and when we were doing these press conferences after I took the TNT Championship which was basically thrown on the scrap heap and I revived that title to make it, at one point, and I’ll die on this hill, that it was as prestigious, if not more prestigious than the World Title when I had that run, and we’re main eventing a pay-per-view, WrestleDream with it and we were sitting in the scrum after and I had my opportunity to basically say there was people and there’s probably a lot of people in this room that thought that the signing was overhyped and I just wanted to make them eat their words.”
H/T to Post Wrestling for the transcription