Christian has finally opened up about his decision to leave WWE for TNA Wrestling.

Christian had found a ton of success while working for the sports entertainment company. He started out as a member of The Brood and had plenty of Tag Team Title reigns alongside WWE Hall of Famer Edge.

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The former WWE World Heavyweight Champion wasn’t getting his shot at a big singles career leading up to 2005. At the end of the day, if you are not happy somewhere then it might be good for a change.

That is exactly what Christian ended up doing by leaving WWE and spending some time forging friendships in Florida while a part of TNA. As a result of his time in TNA, when he finally returned to WWE in 2009, he was pushed as a big star, which is something that he deserved.

As a result of his history with concussions, WWE wouldn’t clear him, and he was forced to retire from in-ring competition. It’s pretty clear that if it were a different day in the professional wrestling business, then he would still be competing.

Christian recently spoke about his departure from WWE and decision to join TNA Wrestling on the Pod Of Awesomeness while comparing Drew McIntyre’s situation to his own. Here is what he had to say (h/t WrestlingNews.co):

“It’s impressive what [Drew McIntyre’s] done” Christian said. “It kinda reminds me of the situation I was in years ago when I left WWE” Christian said. “It was a combination of different things going in why that happened. One of them was being burnt out, being tired, you know my body was beat up, I’d been on the road straight since I was 24 and I was like 31 at that time when I left.”

“Also, you know I felt like I was kinda stuck in a rut and my situation wasn’t going to change if I stayed [in WWE] at that point. It was gonna be like, ‘well we know what we got with him. He’s there, he’s doing his thing, when something comes we’ll figure something out.’ But that time never came for me, you know what I mean?”

“So it’s one of those ones where — and we’ve talked about it many times before you have to bet on yourself sometimes. And my contract came up and I decided it was gonna be better — beneficial for me both personally and professionally to step away for a little while and come back and hopefully be seen in a different light when the time was right to come back. We’ll see if that is the case for Drew [McIntyre] — for me it worked out because I went away for three years and came back and I feel like the second part of my singles career in WWE was much better than the first.”

“In that first kind of run I had a little TV program I did with Cena and I was starting to get these crazy reactions and nothing happened from there. I still didn’t seem to move up from there. We had one match that turned into a triple threat with Jericho in the pay-per-view and I kinda got shuffled around a bit after that. So to me I was going ‘if I was getting those reactions when being put in that spot and it’s still not happening, I have to do something here to change my situation. And that’s when I decided to — when my contract was up I was probably gonna step away for a little while.”

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