Christian is no longer wrestling for WWE even though he didn’t have a formal retirement and the reason is that WWE decided to stop using Christian because the number of concussions he suffered in his career, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio.
It was noted that while there’s nothing really stopping Christian from wrestling again, WWE has a lot of concern about the concussions and they just didn’t feel like investing more time in the character.
His last match on television took place on March 24, 2014 when he won a fatal fourway, but another concussion put him out of action and he hasn’t had a match since then. WWE brought him back for a few different things last year like doing commentary on PPV Kickoff, hosting the Peep Show and appearing with Edge on the December 29 episode of Raw that ended up with The Authority back in power.
It’s understandable why WWE would have concern with him being in the ring since he’s 41 years old with a concussion history. However, if he’s still physically able to do it and pass concussion tests then it would be nice to see him have one more feud with a few more matches because he’s still very capable of entertaining and wrestling to a very high standard.
While it’s difficult to give every wrestler a proper sendoff, Christian has been a WWE employee for 14 years (there was a three year stint in TNA too), won nearly every time you could win in the company and it would be nice to see him go out on his own terms instead of being forced to stop because of his injuries.
