Christian Cage on His Time in AEW Being “Greatest Run” of His Wrestling Career & He Didn’t Expect His “Dead Father” Line Going As Viral As It Did

Yahoo Sports’ Uncrowned held a recent interview with Christian Cage. One of the topics discussed included Cage’s thoughts about his current time in AEW being the “greatest run” of his wrestling career.

“This is, without a doubt, the greatest, the best run.

Did I see it happening this late? No, but it did. And like I said, when I got my career back after being gone for seven years, I wasn’t coming back to do the greatest hits tour. I was coming back to be the best. And that’s the kind of standards that I hold myself to. Anything less than that, you would not see me step foot in that ring.”

Cage also gave his thoughts about his feud with Jack Perry and him bring up Perry’s late father Luke using the “dead father” line for the first time as part of his heel character.

“When I got the reaction, it just made me want to push it further and further, and that’s what I did. I said one phrase and people went crazy with it. So I just kept pushing it and pushing it. The thing is, too, you can’t have any reservations about things like this. You have to believe in yourself and you have to be willing to go to certain places to garner reactions. I was going to places that at the time nobody else was going to. This is a very copycat-type business. When you see the influence of other people, [who] start doing and saying things in the same way that you are, then you know what you’re doing is working, especially when it runs across multiple companies and other people.

When you go up there and have the ability to say 100% your words and your vision, it’s up to you to connect with the audience. If you don’t, then it falls on your shoulders. There’s nobody else to blame.”

Cage also gave his thoughts about how he didn’t expect his “dead father” line to Perry to go as viral as it did.

“No, I had no clue. It was a deeply personal line, and I was expecting a reaction. I don’t know if I expected it to go as viral as it did. And when something like that happens you have to jump on it.”

Cage also gave his thoughts about his recent reunion with Adam Copeland and their current feud with FTR.

“Cope and I agreed to help each other with our issues. Part of the agreement was we’ll get through this, and there’s no promises beyond that.

We’ll see where we get to at the end of this. For me as well, at the end of the day, I love collecting titles, I love collecting gold. So in any form of that, I’ll always welcome, always accept that challenge. But at the end of the day, I still want my name in the books as the AEW world champ by the time it’s all said and done.”