Chris Jericho was recently a guest on Busted Open Radio. Jericho spoke on a wide variety of topics about his recent run with WWE. We have previously covered Jericho revealing that he was supposed to win the Universal Title at Wrestlemania 33.
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Jericho also spoke about how his pairing with Kevin Owens came about. You could argue that the Jericho-Owens friendship was one of the best parts of WWE television in 2016.
Here is what he said:
“I remember we did a TV taping in London after WrestleMania last year, so it could be April, I’m sure if you’ll Google it you’ll find it, random pairing of Jericho and Owens. After the match was done, you know you do a little bit of pop and circumstance, and we won the match and we were celebrating, just as a random tag team, and he ran down the aisle way and ran and jumped into my arms. I remember thinking this is a big dude. Like holy sh*t. I better plant myself. He jumped and I got him and he was like ‘We’re the greatest! We’re the greatest!’ then he’s like ‘You’re the GOAT!’ and I was like ‘You’re the donkey!’ He was like ‘Yeah you’re the GOAT and I’m the donkey!’ It was funny interplay and Vince thought it was hilarious”
He continued:
“That’s when I was like ‘Dude, there’s something with this guy.’ He’s super funny as a guy, very sarcastic and dry, a lot like me. So then I just kept an eye on it and I remember going to talk to Vince before SummerSlam and saying, one of my ideas was to work with Nakamura at WrestleMania cause I worked with him in Japan, and I said ‘this guy’s great.’ He needs to be in WrestleMania, I want to introduce him to the world. Then about two weeks later I said I think we can do Jericho vs. Owens at WrestleMania, I think we have enough steam, we just started the team. I think SummerSlam was our first official against Enzo and Cass. That’s how it started, was from there. The build and the improv, you just know when you have chemistry with someone. It reminded me of when I was working with The Rock or with Shawn. Or working with Edge, you just have that chemistry that’s just there and when you’ve been in the business as long as I have, when you catch that lightning in a bottle you want to expand and take advantage of it as much as you can.”
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You can listen to Jericho’s comments here. h/t to WrestlingInc