Hello OWW readers it is I Derrick "The Apoc" Cannon. It has been way too long since I last wrote for this website, the last time I wrote had to be mid 2005 or earlier. Over the past few months there have been several superstars who have grabbed the spotlight; one in particular stands out to me, his name Christian Cage. Over the next few weeks I will bring to you a four part column on his career, or his career as early as the Brood to present time. The reason I'm starting out with the Brood is because this is when I was first started paying attention to this incredible talent. Over the summer of 1999 Gangrel feuded with Edge. The two engaged in several blood baths literally and non literally, it was during this time that Christian first made his presence felt. Gangrel was in Christian's corner during his first (WWF) match against Taka Michinoku for the light heavyweight championship which Christian won. The third piece of this group was Gangrel's sworn enemy Edge, why would Edge join a group he had sworn to fight off. The reason was later explained that Christian was Edge's brother. The group would come to be known as the brood. Does anybody remember the movie the Lost Boys" If you do you'll know the whole gimmick of the brood, party all night by living the gothic lifestyle. (The gimmick could have been that they were actual vampire) On February 1st 1999 the Brood fought a match against Mideon, Viscera, and the Undertaker, which they won by DQ.

The match itself may not be memorable but it was the after match that really stood out. This is the night that the Brood would join an even darker entity, the Ministry of Darkness. The pinnacle of their stint as members of the ministry was WrestleMania 15. Big Bossman fought the Undertaker in what many call the worst hell in a cell ever, after the match the Big Bossman was hung by all three members. Many would claim that this was because of the Undertaker's failed attempt to get a decent match out of an out of his prime Big Bossman.

In the next few months the Brood started to have conflicting interests with the Ministry, thus they were kicked out of the group after Christian revealed the whereabouts to Ken Shamrock's sister.

Soon after Christian and Edge left Gangrel. Gangrel took Matt and Jeff Hardy under his wing to form the new brood, needless too say the two teams next feud was against each other.

The new brood didn't last long, and the Hardy Boyz and Edge and Christian went on to compete in the Terri invitational. The winner of this gained the services of Terri Runnels. Very soon I will give the details for this rivalry (this is when things stated to really heat up so expect this column to be much longer).

Hopefully you have enjoyed today's column, it's my first in awhile, so hopefully it isn't too bad.

by Derrick "The Apoc" Cannon ..