Professional wrestling legend and future WWE Hall of Famer Chris Jericho who is a former six times WWE World Champion recently looked back at his match against CM Punk from WrestleMania 28. He revealed that Vince McMahon wanted to book this match for only 2 minutes.
WrestleMania 28 is one of the finest WrestleManias in the history of WWE. It delivered some of the greatest matches of WrestleMania history including the likes of Randy Orton vs. Kane, Triple H vs. The Undertaker inside Hell in a Cell, John Cena vs. The Rock and many other great matches.
Chris Jericho Reveals Vince McMahon Once Wanted To Book His Match Against CM Punk For Two Minutes
One of the matches was the WWE championship match between CM Punk and Chris Jericho. It was one of the most anticipated matches of the night. This was not the first time these two wrestlers were going head to head but a clash between such an amazing duo at a stage like WrestleMania was always special.
It would have been a big disappointment if this match was booked for only 2 minutes as Vince McMahon originally planned. Now we can understand why CM Punk was upset with WWE and that is not for one reason only. Thankfully this match turned out to be one of the longest of the night and it was a great match as well.
Chris Jericho who is a former six times WWE World Champion recently spoke on his Talk Is Jericho podcast where he looked back at his match against CM Punk from WrestleMania 28. He revealed that Vince McMahon wanted to book this match for only 2 minutes. He said;
“I think that match is a little underrated because of that [what else was on the card] and I’ll also tell you one last little thing about it is Vince wanted that match to be two minutes long. Punk and I had visions of being Savage/Steamboat for the modern age.
“Vince did have a point looking back in retrospect because if you remember, I was calling his father a drunk, I poured alcohol down his mouth, I hit him with bottles, I did a lot of really shitty things and he wanted Punk to just get me in the ring and just go nuts. And he wanted to do the terrible, ‘kick the guy in the corner, ref counts to 5, and DQ.’ I said, ‘Vince, we can’t do that at WrestleMania.”
“He says, ‘What else is he supposed to do? You insulted his family, you insulted his sister, and you poured alcohol down his throat. What do you think he’s supposed to do? Tackle, drop down, leapfrog? I was like, he has a point.
“So we decided, and Vince came up with the idea that if CM Punk gets disqualified, I win the title. So he couldn’t go completely crazy and there was some semblance of rules that had to be followed so at least we could still have a match and there was a reason Punk didn’t just grab a chair and take my head off.”
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