Professional wrestling legend and current AEW star Chris Jericho who is a former six times WWE World Champion and also the inaugural AEW World champion recently remembered his real life heat with the current WWE Head of Creative Triple H.
When Chris Jericho arrived in WWE for the first time in 1999, it was said that most of the WWE stars in the time did not like WCW stars that were coming to WWE. A lot of transition stars had to face a lot of issues regarding this situation. Jericho could have been one of the victims as well. It is said that Stone Cold Steve Austin was not even spared who went on to be the biggest star of the Attitude Era of WWE.
Chris Jericho Reveals Real Life Heat With Triple H
This is said that Jericho’s WWE run could have ended in only one month time due to some misunderstandings. If that actually had happened, we might not get such a huge star. Jericho went on to become one of the biggest WWE star in the near future. There is almost nothing he has not done. He has main evented WrestleMania and won almost all the possible championships.
Right now Jericho is working on the AEW promotion which is the biggest rivals of WWE. He is working in the new promotion from the very first day of its existence and he has been the inaugural world champion of the said promotion as well. Even at the age of 52 he is winning championships and main eventing shows. We hope he still has a long way to go.
Chris Jericho who is a former six times WWE World Champion and also the inaugural AEW World champion recently spoke on his Talk is Jericho Podcast where he remembered his real life heat with the current WWE Head of Creative Triple H. He said;
“There was a lot of animosity for real, because I had the audacity to come to WWE,” Jericho said. “People didn’t like it. They didn’t want WCW guys coming to WWE, because they felt we were inferior. So you could do ten things right, but if you did one thing wrong, you were under a microscope and you were in trouble. And those guys had pull, so they’d bury you to Vince.”
“I remember Triple H, when I first got there, he said ‘If you ever need anything, give me a call,’” Jericho said. “We were in San Jose, and I was trying to find directions to Stockton or somewhere like that. I went ‘I’ll call Triple H.He seems like a nice guy. This will be the start of our friendship.’
“So I call him, and he’s like ‘Hello, who’s this?’ ‘It’s Chris Jericho. Do you know how to get to Stockton?’ ‘You want to know how to get to Stockton? By a f*****g map.’ And I hear this laughter in the background of X-Pac and Road Dogg. He hangs up, and I’m like ‘Well there goes that friendship down the toilet.’”
“I almost got fired about a month in,” Jericho said. “I got called into a meeting with Vince, JR, and Blackjack Lanza and Vince said ‘The problem with you is the drizzling s***s. You’re not worth the paper your contract is printed on. You’re green as grass.’ I was like ‘Lighten up dude.’ There was a lot of heat, shall we say.”
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