Starting on February 21, 2016, Reso began appearing along with Edge in the WWE Network exclusive "The Edge and Christian Show That Totally Reeks of Awesomeness", but in July 2017 it was announced that the show was canceled from the Network. In mid-May 2016, it became known that Reso had been released from his talent contract. On the June 22, "Talk Is Jericho" podcast focusing on the Chris Benoit tragedy, Jericho mentioned Christian as an example of modern wrestlers who had to retire as the WWE would no longer give them medical clearances due to concussion related injuries (this was largely as a consequence of the Benoit incident as well as better knowledge of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and other concussion related risks).