In an interview with FOX Sports, Chris Jericho revealed the worst argument he ever had with Vince McMahon during his time in WWE. Here are highlights:
On the worst argument he’s had with Vince McMahon:
“The worst argument is when I got the job to host Downfall, the game
show that I had to audition for quite a few times. I didn’t tell him
because I didn’t want him getting involved because
sometimes the company
will get involved and screw things up for you. (laughs) And when I
finally got the gig, I didn’t tell him and it was on the front cover of
the Hollywood Reporter, which he flipped out at. He forbid me from doing
it and I was going to do it. No you can’t. Yes I can. Well, you’re
fired. You can’t fire me because I quit. You can’t quit because you’re
fired. I’m going to fly to Connecticut to punch you in the face. I’ll
give you my address. I’ll be waiting. That sort of a thing. We kind of
just hung up on each other.
We ended up working it all out but that was the biggest actual
argument. Most of the time with Vince, it’s not arguments, it’s just
debates or it’s a very calm, ‘this is what you’re doing.’ I wasn’t
supposed to be working with Fandango at WrestleMania 29. It was supposed to be Ryback
and that was kind of the deal we had made. That was the promise that
was made and it was changed very quickly for no real reason. I wasn’t
happy about that either. Nothing against Fandango, but that spot wasn’t a
really WrestleMania worthy match, but once again, once I was told that
this was my role, I made it a WrestleMania-worthy match. We had about
three weeks to come up with an angle and if you go and watch that match
and watch the night after, the most over guy on that show was Fandango.
And I’m taking a huge chunk of the credit for that, thank you very
much.”
On if he’ll be involved with Wrestlemania 32:
“Yes, no, maybe. It all depends. I came back a couple of weeks ago to
do the Night of Champions thing and I don’t come back just for one-offs.
There’s always a reason why I do everything that I do. That could give
you some clues. It’s going to be the biggest show of all-time. I haven’t
done the last couple of Manias and, to me, it wasn’t that the
opportunity wasn’t there or the offer but what am I going to be doing?
Who am I working with? What’s the storyline because I know that for WrestleMania, everyone comes back. I was the main event
of WrestleMania 18. It might be the only WrestleMania main event I
might have; it might not be the only WrestleMania show-stealer. But I
also know that if you’re not in the main event, your real estate on TV
is less and less. I’m smart enough to know that if you get the right
person and just given my own little world, give me my own little ten
minute segment every week like me and [CM] Punk had three years ago when
we had an amazing angle that was never the main event of anything. It
was just like well, here’s the crossover segment. Here’s the open
segment. All right, that’s cool. Punk and I were smart enough to know
that’s all we need. We don’t need 20 minutes of talking. We don’t need
electrocutions or going through tables or whatever the hell they do to
build up their angles. All we need is just 10 minutes of talking time,
10 minutes of TV time and we’ll do the rest. So that’s always been my
mindset. What can I figure out to do on the biggest show that’s going to
kind of back door my way into becoming one of the more intriguing
storylines of the entire night? If I can figure that out, then I’m
always open for it.”
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