10 real-life friends who had intense on-screen rivalries in WWE

#6 Former WWE Heavyweight Champions Edge and Christian

Unlike most of the friendships that kicked off once two individuals stepped into the ring, Edge and Christian became friends at a very young age. The two have spoken about their friendship on several occasions, and WWE has used this angle on-screen countless times.

Edge appeared on Prime Time with Sean Mooney and spoke about various topics including his friendship with Christian.

“Just so happened to find two people – same mindset, same drive, same goal. That to me is the crazy part. and he fact that we stuck to it is because we had each other to lean on throughout the years, but to get there, to go through all the training, to wrestle in the barns in Fall Branch, TN and go through all of that stuff and then eventually at WrestleMania 16 to be standing there on top of the table holding the tag team belts, just all very, very surreal at times.”

The two men kicked off their WWE careers as a tag team and had a great rivalry in the early 2000s for the Intercontinental Championship. The two featured in several matches together after that, and in 2012, Christian inducted Edge into the WWE Hall of Fame.