Professional wrestling legend and future WWE Hall of Famer Chris Jericho who is a former six times WWE world champion and the inaugural AEW World Champion recently reflected on working with late great professional wrestler Chyna and made a shocking claim that it was terrible to work with her.
Chyna did not have a very long career in WWE but in a short amount of time she had been extremely impressive and earned a fan base for herself as well. She was the first woman in WWE to work with men and also one men’s championships. She was also the first woman to appear on a men’s Royal Rumble match.
Chris Jericho Remembers Working With Chyna
She made her WWE debut in 1997 as the Bodyguard of Hunter Hearst Helmsley who later became Triple H. Before coming in WWE, she worked on the independent circuit for 2 years. After coming to WWE in 1997 she did not start working as a wrestler instantly. It took over one year to have her work in a singles match.
She is the only woman to win the WWE Intercontinental championship and that is also not once but twice. She appeared on the Royal Rumble match in 1999 to become the first ever woman to work in a Royal Rumble match. She was the vastly addressed as the 9th Wonder of the World. In 2001 she left WWE never to return again.
Chris Jericho who is a former six times WWE world champion and the inaugural AEW World Champion recently spoke to the Geordie podcast where he reflected on working with late great professional wrestler Chyna and made a shocking claim that it was terrible to work with her. He said;
“Terrible. She was terrible to work with. She wasn’t good, but she thought she was. She also was in a position where they were pushing her really big that she could beat up guys. She couldn’t. I never got that credit [for carrying her]. No one ever once said, ‘You’re making her look good. It was the other side of the coin.”
“I got in big trouble from working with her. Because at one point I remember when I first started working with her, Vince was like, ‘Don’t treat her like a woman, treat her like a wrestler.’ She was really stiff too which means she worked very strong. Listen, I am not talking bad of her, I’m just telling the truth. So when we worked together, it was a solid fight in a lot of ways.
“I remember one time she got a little bit of a black eye from me, and you would have thought I cut her arm off with a chainsaw. I got in so much trouble. I was like, ‘Fuck I didn’t do it on purpose.’ So it was a tough position for me to be in. It was my first real angle in the WWE. My first story. But once again, I did the best that I could. I think her best matches that she ever had were with me. [It] hopefully proved something to the people that I had to prove things to, but there was a lot of issues with working with her.”
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