Edge & Christian

Adam Copeland & Christian Cage are a Canadian professional wrestling tag team in All Elite Wrestling (AEW). They are best known for their time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), later renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), as Edge & Christian (E&C) , where they won the WWF Tag Team Championship on seven occasions. Initially, the two were portrayed as on-screen brothers, but the aspect was de-emphasized in the mid-2000s, and in 2010, the team was officially retconned as legitimate childhood friends. The team disbanded in 2001 but reunited briefly under the SmackDown brand in 2011. Edge, however, announced his retirement from professional wrestling due to neck injury on the April 11 episode of Monday Night Raw, which would ultimately end their final run together. Edge made his in-ring return in 2020, followed by Christian in 2021, as the two were both entrants in the 2021 Royal Rumble. Shortly after, Christian left WWE for AEW using the ring name Christian Cage, and Edge would then join AEW in 2023 under his real name Adam Copeland. The duo reunited in AEW in August 2025.

In addition to their seven reigns as WWF Tag Team Champions, they each won singles titles during their run as a tag team. Edge and Christian are also noteworthy for their participation in the first three Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches (TLC matches), and use of steel folding chairs as weapons. They developed a move called the “con-chair-to”, a play on words of “concerto” where both Edge and Christian each hit a wrestler simultaneously with a chair, often in the head, or they lay a motionless wrestler’s head on a chair, and then hit them in the head with another chair. They are considered one of the major teams that revived tag team wrestling during the Attitude Era. In 2012, WWE named them the greatest tag team in WWE history. The team's popularity propelled Edge & Christian to main event success, with both men becoming multiple-time world champions in their own right.

Adam Copeland and Jason Reso formed a tag team in the Canadian independent circuit after completing their training with Ron Hutchison and Sweet Daddy Siki at Hutchinson's "Sully's Gym". The pair primarily used the ring names of Sexton Hardcastle & Christian Cage, respectively. Their tag team wrestled under several team 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 Cage, Hardcastle, Joe E. Legend, Rhino Richards, Bloody Bill Skullion, Big Daddy Adams, and Martin Kane. In 1998, Sexton 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.

On the June 22, 1998 episode of Raw is War, Copeland debuted as Edge 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. Eventually, he started a feud with Gangrel. At In Your House: Breakdown on September 27, during a match pitting Edge against Owen Hart, Reso, cited as an unknown person looking strikingly similar to Edge, came out to the ring distracting him long enough to allow Hart to get the win. It was later revealed that Reso's character was Christian, Edge's storyline brother, and that he was aligned with Gangrel as his vampire follower. After some confrontations between the two gothic brothers, Edge was eventually convinced to "come home" with Christian and Gangrel, and the three of them formed a stable known as "The Brood".

At In Your House: Rock Bottom on December 13, the Brood defeated The J.O.B. Squad (Al Snow, Bob Holly, & Scorpio). The Brood then briefly joined The Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness faction, but left after Christian was flogged and almost sacrificed for revealing Stephanie McMahon's whereabouts to Ken Shamrock. Following a short feud with the Ministry in the immediate aftermath, Gangrel turned on Edge and demanded that Christian do the same. He refused and both Christian and Edge broke away from Gangrel, turning them into fan favorites. From there, the gothic storyline enjoyed limited success, beginning their eventual tag team feud with The Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy), who also briefly formed a new Brood with Gangrel before turning on him as well. At this point, the duo had rehashed Edge's pre-Brood gimmick as borderline gothic fan favorites, most notable for a tendency to enter the ring through the audience.

The tag team feud with the Hardy Boyz intensified as Gangrel became Matt and Jeff's new manager, combining to form "The New Brood", in the summer of 1999. However, both teams were more interested in acquiring the managerial services of Terri Runnels, for which (along with $100,000) they would compete in a best-of-five series of matches known as the "Terri Invitational Tournament". Edge & Christian won the first two matches, putting the Hardyz in sudden jeopardy. The Hardyz went on to win the next two matches, however, leading to a rubber match at No Mercy on October 17 to determine which team would earn Terri's services. The rubber match would be a ladder match, in which Gangrel tried to interfere, only to get ejected. Matt and Jeff Hardy went on to win the match and the tournament after a competitive bout that resulted in both teams receiving a standing ovation from the audience after the match, as well as the next night on Raw Is War. On that next night, the four men shook hands in a show of respect, then all turned against Gangrel by attacking him when he came out to boast about spending the night with Terri, establishing them all as heroic figures and removing Gangrel from the equation entirely.

The storyline then focused around the "mutual respect" between Edge & Christian and the Hardy Boyz, along with both teams' pursuit of the WWF Tag Team Championship. The two teams were involved in several matches together, such as at Survivor Series on November 14 and No Way Out on February 27, 2000. However, shortly after Terri betrayed the Hardyz at No Way Out, the truce between the two teams imploded and they began fighting each other once more. Terri then attempted to sow discord between Edge & Christian in a storyline that was originally intended to see the two split off into singles wrestlers with Terri managing Christian, but plans was quickly changed to keep the tag team together and have them reject Terri's plans.