Chris Jericho has been lucky enough to compete at WrestleMania on a number of occasions, and he last competed at WrestleMania 33 where he dropped the United States Title to Kevin Owens.
The US Title match was the second match on the show, and Vince McMahon celled it the “worst match in WrestleMania history.” Chris Jericho recently spoke to talkSPORT about the match and he explained why Vince had such a negative opinion of the bout.
“He told Kevin it was the ‘worst match in WrestleMania history’ [laughs]. I never heard anything about that. When I came through, Vince went [thumbs up], so I think he was on Kevin’s case at the time. I think he was going through a phase where he thought maybe Kevin had some extra weight that he wanted him to lose or wasn’t happy with his work as a heel.”
“Kevin is a very unique performer in that he’s amazing and he’s a bigger guy. Who cares? Mick Foley was a bigger guy, Vader was a bigger guy, Bam Bam Bigelow was a bigger guy. Didn’t affect their work, they were still great performers and Kevin is one of those guys. For whatever reason, Vince goes through phases where you just get stuck in his craw and he gets pissed off at anything you do and maybe that was one of his reasons. But yeah… the worst match in WrestleMania history?! I was like ‘have you not seen Giant Gonzalez vs The Undertaker!”
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