Poor Christian

After Edge's retirement and forfeiting of the title, a ladder match was held at Extreme Rules. Edge's best friend and former tag team partner Christian stepped up in Edge's place in the main event against the man that ended Edge's career, Alberto. Thanks to an assist by Edge, Christian was able to climb the ladder and retrieve the title making him the World Champion for the first time in his career.

However this great moment was very short lived. The following week's Smackdown saw Christian defending his title already, against newly drafted Randy Orton. Personally I think this was all way too soon. Christian just won the title and Orton just moved to Smackdown, not to mention they are both baby-faces (good-guys). I would have liked to have seen Christian make a few successful title defenses against other Smackdown starts, such as: Mark Henry, The Great Khali, Kane, The Big Show, the members of the Corre, just to name a few. But instead WWE rushed the big match up and had Christian drop the title clean to Randy Orton in his very first title defense.

This essentially killed any attention for Christian as a champion and any good feeling of him regaining Edge's fallen title. Now its just as if that was all erased and the company has moved on. I knew when I saw Randy get drafted to Smackdown that he was being sent there to take over Edge's roll as the top guy, but I thought they would give Christian a fair turn as champion first. I guess I was wrong.

There are rumours going around that either Christian or Orton will be turning heel (bad-guy) as a result so that the two can feud over the title for months to come, but no decision has been made yet. Personally I think Orton is already in the roll of the heel since he showed up and ruined Christian's celebration and took his title which most fans probably didn't appreciate. So it would be easy to have him come out and be a jerk about it and make himself the heel. But then again, Orton is the second biggest star in the company next to Cena, and I'm not sure if they want the new star of Smackdown to turn heel now.