Chris Jericho On Why It Was Too Early For Him To Become Undisputed Champion

Chris Jericho has quite the impressive resume as he’s the only man in wrestling who can brag about being the first ever WWE Undisputed Champion and the first ever AEW World Champion. At the Vengeance pay-per-view in 2001, Jericho managed to unify the WWE Championship and the WCW Championship when he beat The Rock and Steve Austin in the same night.

There’s no denying that winning the WWE Undisputed Championship was a huge moment for Jericho’s career, but he recently explained on the Swerve City podcast that he thinks it was too early for him to win the belts.

“Timing really is everything. I try to tell some of our younger guys this: you can’t have it all, it takes time. It takes time for the story to be right, it takes time for the audience to be intrigued and hooked by it. Also, it takes time as a performer.”

“You look back to when I was Undisputed Champion? ‘Oh, you beat The Rock and Steve Austin?’ Was I really ready for that? It was as good a time as any but it wasn’t like if it was now! It was the first taste of being a main event guy, a champion, but I wasn’t really the champion. I wasn’t the top guy in the company, that didn’t happen until 2008. It was too early for me, but I was the best guy for the job when Triple H was hurt. But it wasn’t killer.”

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