Christian is joined on today’s show by Tommy Dreamer, who’s co-hosting today in Edge’s place since his mother passed away this week. Christian says Edge’s mother was like a mother to him as well, and it’s been hard to watch Edge deal with all of this. It’s hard to find the right words to say at times like this, adding that Edge’s mother had an iron will and was the main reason Edge succeeded in life the way he has.
Christian talks about the debut episode of season two of the Edge and Christian Show on the WWE Network. There was a 2-year hiatus between seasons, and a lot of hard work went into making season 2 happen. The debut episode was very well received and that was nice to see. Dreamer says he was laughing during the entire show.

Christian notes that the “Icopro” skit from the show was ad libbed on the fly. They were in a warehouse shooting another skit and saw the old Icopro banner hanging. They thought it’d be a cool idea to incorporate that into a segment as well so they found a couple silly shirts and did the entire skit on the fly in one take.
Christian informs that he took a spill off a ladder this past week. He took his first flat back bump in 4 years, knocking the wind out of himself and he thought he broke his tailbone. He was afraid someone saw him fall and he was embarrassed so he didn’t want to just lie there. He crawled to the side of his house and laid there for 10-15 minutes. Luckily after a while he came around.

Dreamer informs that on Thanksgiving he flew to Indianapolis for an indie show. He was picked up at the airport and brought to an apartment complex. He was confused but as is turned out he was wrestling in a condo sports complex where they had a small basketball course. Every match was in a steel cage as that was the show’s selling point. He teamed with Sandman and Shane Douglas, and a lot of fans came out. It was a pretty good show.

Christian welcomes Mark Henry to the show.
Henry informs that he’s working on SiriusFM radio now and he’s having so much fun. Over time he’s learning the protocol; what to say and what not to say, and he thinks a 25 year background in the wrestling business has helped him. Bubba Ray Dudley and Dreamer also appear on Busted Open Radio to talk wrestling, and he points out that this gives the program three different voices with expert opinions based on their careers in the business.
Henry mentions that he always loved working with Christian. Christian always spoke in terms of getting the match over, not getting himself over, and Henry loved that. He also loved Christian’s creative ideas, and that wasn’t always the case with people he worked with. Other than Owen Hart, Christian was the funnest guy he ever worked with in the ring.

Dreamer mentions that Henry slammed him so hard on WWE ECW television one time that he literally had the crap knocked out of him. After taking the slam he could smell something, but when he got to the back he discovered that he had indeed crapped his pants.
Henry talks about his in-ring style. Christian notes that when you’re that big and strong your work has to look believable. Henry agrees, admitting that he would hit people hard sometimes, but he’d hit them in places that wouldn’t kill them. He’d also tell people to hit him back because he knew he could take it.

Dreamer recalls Henry rolling up a wrench like a piece of paper in OVW one time, displaying his ridiculous strength. On another occasion several WWE Superstars were trying to move a door that was in their locker room. Bradshaw and Ron Simmons couldn’t even move the door when they worked together, and then Henry came into the room and moved the door with one hand.

Christian thinks Henry’s main event “Hall of Pain” run was his best work. Henry agrees, noting that this was the first time in his career that he was given creative liberties to cut promos with the likes of John Cena. Before going through the curtain McMahon would tell him not to hurt anyone, other than that it was mostly on him creatively and he had a lot of fun.
Dreamer asks Henry why he was never given one big build for a retirement match. Henry informs that he was working hurt for about three years. There was no heat with the company and it wasn’t McMahon’s call to quickly retire him. He made the decision to not wrestle anymore and that actually caught McMahon off guard. His back, knee and the majority of his body was in pain.

Thankfully, he just had his knee fixed and this is the best his body has felt in years. He’ll never say never when it comes to an actual retirement match, adding that he feels like he owes the fans one final match. However, he’s not the world’s strongest man anymore, and if he comes back it’ll be a different Mark Henry.
That sums up today’s episode of E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya next week for another recap!