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Edge and Christian (E&C) is a former tag team of on-screen brothers made of real life best friends Edge (Adam Copeland) and Christian (William Reso, who normally uses his middle name of Jason), who wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and the Canadian independent circuit.

Edge and Christian won the WWF Tag Team Championship on seven occasions.

Independent circuit (1998)
Sexton Hardcastle and Christian Cage formed a tag team in the Canadian independent circuit after completing their training with Ron Hutchinson in Toronto. Their tag team wrestled under several names, such as "High Impact", "Suicide Blondes", "Revolution X", "Hard Impact" and "Canadian Rockers". They were part of a faction dubbed "Thug LiFe" in 1997. The stable consisted of Hardcastle, Cage, Joe E. Legend, Rhino Richards, Bloody Bill Skullion, Big Daddy Adams and Martin Kane. In 1998, Hardcastle and Cage began teaming up in independent promotions such as Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) and Southern States Wrestling (SSW).

The duo won the ICW Streetfight Tag Team Championship twice and SSW Tag Team Championship once during their time in the independent circuit.

The Brood (1998)
On the June 22, 1998, episode of Raw is War, "Edge" (Adam Copeland) debuted in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) against Jose Estrada Jr.. He was a mysterious loner character who would emerge from the crowd before his matches. His character's persona included him aimlessly walking around the city streets and assaulting innocent pedestrians. Eventually, Edge started a feud with Gangrel, a vampire wrestler. At In Your House: Breakdown, during a match pitting Edge against Owen Hart, an unknown person, looking similar to Edge, came out to the ring distracting him enough to allow Hart to get the win. It was later revealed that this person was "Christian", Edge's storyline brother, and he was aligned with Gangrel as his vampire follower. After some confrontations between the two brothers (both of whom appeared to be gothic and vampire-like) Edge was convinced to "rejoin" with Christian and Gangrel, and the three of them formed a group known as "The Brood".

At In Your House: Rock Bottom in December 1998, the Brood defeated J.O.B. Squad (Al Snow, Bob Holly and Scorpio). The Brood as a whole was later abducted by and converted into The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness. In May 1999, the Brood broke away from The Ministry after Christian was attacked by Ken Shamrock and forced to reveal the location of the captive Stephanie McMahon. The Undertaker chose to have Christian punished for his trespass, but Edge and Gangrel stood by him and betrayed The Undertaker leading to a brief feud with the Ministry. Following their rivalry with the Ministry, Gangrel betrayed Edge and demanded that Christian do the same. Christian refused and both he and Edge parted ways with Gangrel turning them into fan favorites in the process. From there, the gothic storyline enjoyed limited success, beginning their eventual tag team feud with The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff Hardy).

Terri Invitational Tournament (1999)
Edge and Christian's feud with Matt and Jeff Hardy, the Hardy Boyz, intensified as Gangrel became the Hardy's new manager, combining to form The New Brood, in the mid-1999. They feuded with the Hardy Boyz, as they went onto compete for the "managerial services" of Terri Runnels and $100,000 in a best-of-five series of matches known as the Terri Invitational Tournament. Edge and Christian won the first two matches, however, the Hardy's went on to win the next two matches, resulting in a rubber match at No Mercy to determine which team would earn the services of Runnels. At No Mercy, in October 1999, both teams competed in a ladder match which saw the Hardy's win the match.

World Tag Team Championship pursuits (2000)
Edge and Christian were involved in several tag team matches with the Hardy Boyz at Survivor Series in November 1999 and No Way Out in February 2000. At WrestleMania 2000, Edge and Christian defeated the Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von) and the Hardy Boyz in a Triangle ladder match, which ultimately led to the creation of the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match (TLC), for their first WWF Tag Team Championship. At Backlash, following the WrestleMania 2000 event, the duo retained their championship against D-Generation X (X-Pac and Road Dogg). Edge and Christian began a feud with Too Cool (Scotty 2 Hotty, Brian Christopher and Rikishi). On the May 29, 2000, episode of Raw is War, they lost the World Tag Team championship to Scotty 2 Hotty and Brian Christopher. At the King of the Ring pay-per-view, Edge and Christian defeated Too Cool, the Hardy Boyz and T & A (Test and Albert) in a Four Corners elimination match to win their second WWF Tag Team Championship.

Following this victory, Edge and Christian found success as a villainous duo, shifting their in-ring personas from borderline goth to a comedic pair of "cool dudes", winning the WWF Tag Team Title six more times (for a total of seven). During this time, their trademark became the "five second pose" where they performed a pose in the ring for five seconds "for the benefit of those with flash photography" to mock, insult, or otherwise amuse the fans. They also competed as a team in the first three TLC matches winning the first two over the Dudley Boyz and the Hardy Boyz at SummerSlam in August 2000 and then again at WrestleMania X-Seven in April 2001. At the 2001 Royal Rumble, the team lost the World Tag Team title to the Dudley Boyz. They unsuccessfully attempted to regain the tag team title at No Way Out against the Dudley Boyz and the Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane), but they succeeded at WrestleMania X-Seven against the Dudley Boyz and The Hardyz in the second TLC match.

Los Conquistadores (2000)
After Edge and Christian lost the tag team championship to the Hardy Boyz at Unforgiven, they had a rematch on the September 25, 2000, episode of Raw is War in a ladder match which they lost. According to the stipulation inserted prior to the match they could never again challenge for the tag team championship as long as the Hardy Boyz were champions. Thus, Edge and Christian began competing under the ring name Los Conquistadores and wore masks for their appearance so that they could conceal their identities. On the October 16 episode of Raw Is War, they defeated the Dudley Boyz, and on the October 19 episode of SmackDown!, they won a tag team battle royal to earn themselves a tag team title shot. They went on to defeat the Hardy Boyz at No Mercy to once again become the tag team champions.

Soon after, another team began competing under the Los Conquistadores tag name, and they soon challenged Edge and Christian for their tag team championship on the October 23 episode of Raw is War. Los Conquistadores defeated Edge and Christian before ripping off their masks and revealing themselves as Matt and Jeff Hardy.

Team RECK (2000–2001)
They eventually started to team with Kurt Angle, forming "Team ECK", a group that was later joined by Rhyno when he came in from Extreme Championship Wrestling in early 2001 to make "Team RECK".

Edge and Christian won their fourth WWF Tag Team Championship at Armageddon in a Four Corners match which included the champions, Right to Censor (Bull Buchanan and The Goodfather), Dudley Boyz and the makeshift team of Road Dogg and K-Kwik. Edge and Christian went on to win the match and their fourth WWF Tag Team Championship. A week later, they exchanged the WWF Tag Team Championship with The Undertaker and The Rock.

At the Royal Rumble, they lost the titles to Dudleyz. They helped Hardyz defeat Dudleyz for the titles on March 5, 2001 edition of Raw is War and then two weeks later, they defeated Hardyz themselves for their sixth WWF Tag Team Championship after replacing Dudleyz because it was Dudleyz' shot. Later that night, they dropped the titles to Dudleyz. At WrestleMania X-Seven, they defeated the tag champs, Dudleyz and Hardyz in the second TLC match for their seventh and final WWF Tag Team Championship, but with help from their teammate Rhyno. On the April 19 episode of SmackDown!, they lost the WWF Tag Team Championship to Brothers of Destruction (Undertaker and Kane).

Split and sporadic reunions
Friction arose between the team (as well as the entire RECK faction) at King of the Ring when Edge won the 2001 King of the Ring tournament (all four members had made it to the semi finals). As a result, on the September 3 edition of Raw is War in their hometown of Toronto, Christian appeared to be jealous of his brother and insisted on carrying Edge's trophy to the ring. During the night, he assaulted Edge with a "one-man con-chair-to" and joined The Alliance. The former partners went on to feud over the WWF Intercontinental Championship for several months, causing the team to split.

Edge and Christian had a one-night reunion at a SmackDown! live event on October 13, 2002 when they defeated Los Guerreros (Eddie and Chavo). They reunited again on November 15, 2004 edition of Raw but ended up losing to Chris Benoit and Shelton Benjamin. From there, they would become loosely united through Christian facing Edge's storyline rivals, leading to three more reunion tag team matches in 2005. These reunions, officially or otherwise, also included a brand new third party in the form of Christian's acting problem solver at the time, Tyson Tomko.

Singles success
Christian left WWE on November 13, 2005. He debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) at its Genesis pay-per-view under the ring name Christian Cage, which he used in Canadian independent circuit. Christian experienced immediate success in TNA, where he won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship twice. Edge also achieved greater success in WWE after Christian's departure. He went on to win the first-ever Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 21 and cashed in his Money in the Bank contract at New Year's Revolution for his first of nine World Championship reigns. In 2009, Christian returned to WWE, and at Backlash, won the ECW Championship. Following his title win, and prior to Edge's ninth world title win that same night, the duo interacted on television for the first time since Christian's return.

In wrestling

 * Finishing moves
 * Con–chair–to


 * Signature move
 * Double hip toss
 * Step up corner bodysplash
 * Sidewalk slam (Edge) / Falling reverse DDT (Christian) combo


 * Managers
 * Terri Runnels
 * Gangrel


 * Theme music
 * "Blood" by Jim Johnston (used as part of The Brood) (WWE)
 * "You Think You Know Me" by James A. Johnston
 * "On the Edge" by James A. Johnston
 * "Blood Brother" by James A. Johnston

Championships and accomplishments

 * Insane Championship Wrestling
 * ICW Streetfight Tag Team Championship (1 time)


 * New Tokyo Pro Wrestling
 * NTPW Pro Tag Team Championship (1 time)


 * Southern States Wrestling
 * SSW Tag Team Championship (1 time)


 * World Wrestling Federation 
 * WWF Intercontinental Championship (3 times) – Edge
 * WWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time) – Christian
 * WWF Tag Team Championship (7 times)
 * King of the Ring (2001) – Edge


 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 * Tag Team of the Year (2000)