Chris Jericho Reveals How ‘Y2J’ Was Created, What Vince McMahon Called Him Backstage

Chris Jericho was recently a guest on the Steve Austin Show podcast. Jericho and ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin shot the breeze about a wide variety of topics.

One of these topics was about how ‘Y2J’ was created. Jericho says that it was his idea but Vince McMahon contributed to it.

Here are some quotes (h/t to Wrestling INC):

“I came up with the Millennium Man with the countdown. Vince’s contributions to it were, it was my idea that the countdown would end at the beginning of RAW. I think it was August 9, 1999. Vince’s idea was that it would end right in the middle of The Rock’s promo, which, classic Vince, come in as high as you can possibly get”

Jericho continued:

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“His other idea was, he was like, ‘what’s your finish called and what it is?’ I said, ‘well, it’s a Boston Crab and it’s called ‘Y2J Problem’. He goes, ‘no, no, no, that’s not the name of your finish. Your finish isn’t ‘Y2J’, you’re ‘Y2J’ and that was his monicker and for the first year or two, I’m sure [Austin] got this too, it was never ‘Chris’ or ‘Chris Jericho’. It was always ‘Y2J, how are you? Good to see you, Y2J.’ because that was his creation. Even though it was my idea, he took it and that’s what he called me. I’m sure it was the same with ‘Stone Cold’. I’m sure he called [Austin] ‘Stone Cold’ all the time.”

Discussion: What is your favorite Chris Jericho moment or match?

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