During the Monday Night Wars it was always exciting to see wrestlers jump ship between WWE and WCW and Chris Jericho got a lot of people talking when he parted ways with World Championship Wrestling. It’s no big secret that Chris Jericho and Triple H didn’t get along when Jericho first joined the company as Jericho has openly spoken about their issues in the past.
During a recent episode of Talk Is Jericho, the first ever AEW World Champion noted that there was a lot of animosity back in those days because WWE stars didn’t want WCW wrestlers joining the company. Jericho went on to discuss the exact moment when he knew he and Triple H probably weren’t going to be friends.
“I remember Triple H, when I first got there, he said ‘If you ever need anything, give me a call.’ 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.'”
Chris Jericho went on to add that the issues between him and Triple H got worse when he was working with Chyna, which led to a meeting with Vince McMahon.
“I almost got fired about a month in. 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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