Christian (Jay Reso) appeared on WWE’s The Bump on Wednesday and discussed his surprise return at the Royal Rumble.
Christian on his return, getting back in shape:
When I watched him [Edge], I know we had different injuries but I started thinking, man, just kind of put that bug in my ear and I started thinking, ‘Maybe this is a possibility’ and I kind of put it to the side and didn’t really think anything of it and then the summer when I had the unsanctioned match against Randy Orton, I kind of looked at where I was in my life and everything like that and I was like, ‘Am I making healthy choices as far as diet’ and things like that? I wasn’t in the best shape that I’d ever been in and living that retired life, right? You know? In the evening, what’s better than half-a-box of Cheez-Its? A whole box. So that would be my thing and then I started thinking, ‘Maybe I should make some physical changes and get back into shape and let me see if this can actually happen,’ and I started thinking do I want that to be the lasting memory people have of me, getting punted in a ten second match. The way that my career ended before never sat well with me as it was and I was like, ‘I need to get back in there. I need to finish it on my terms and do it my way’ and if it was just that one match, the Royal Rumble then so be it but I needed to end it on my terms so…
Christian says he found out he was going to be in the Royal Rumble two days before:
Yeah, well that’s a whole different thing. I found out at 7:30 on Friday night, so it’s kind of a whirlwind from there. In hindsight, it was like, man, I would liked to have a little more time, be able to get in the ring and things like that but then it also gave me — I was nervous when I got the call and I was like, ‘Oh, where’s my gear, where’s my tights? Where’s my boots?’ These are all things I have to find so once I found all those things and started piecing things together, there was no time to think. I had so much to do to prepare on Saturday and then, you know, went to the arena on Sunday and I was surprisingly calm for not stepping a foot in a ring for seven years. There was no nerves. It was like, ‘This is what I was born to do. There’s nothing to be nervous about.’ It’s second nature to me and I went out and — I haven’t [watched] it back yet. I’m afraid to watch it back because I don’t wanna see something that I didn’t like so, eventually I’ll watch it back and I’ll check it out but I haven’t yet.
