Chris Jericho had quite the year in 2022 as he not only managed to win the ROH World Championship, but he was also involved in some interesting storylines. The Inner Circle imploded which led to Chris Jericho feuding with his former stablemates Santana & Ortiz.
During a recent episode of Talk Is Jericho the former ROH World Champion looked back on some of the matches he had in 2022, and he recalled an idea he wanted to use that was inspired by a real life issue with CM Punk.
“That was with Santana and Ortiz versus 2point0 and [Daniel] Garcia and this is the one where Santana and Ortiz were angry at me because of what Eddie Kingston said that maybe I was the reason why they weren’t the tag team champions and they refused to tag me in which was funny because that was something I was gonna do with Eddie Kingston which stemmed from a real-life issue I had with CM Punk, probably like 10 years ago when he got mad at me and didn’t wanna tag me in-in a match.
I talked about that in The Complete List of Jericho and I always kept that in the back of my head, well what if your partner just refused to tag you in? So we did that with Santana, Ortiz to advance the story and meanwhile, I didn’t even tag in so it was a match but because I wasn’t allowed to tag in, I wasn’t allowed to do anything physical. I think I just did something for the finish to hit Daddy Magic who was just Matt Lee back then. It’s so crazy to think about. Matt Lee and Jeff Parker, oh my gosh, what jobber names, right? In comparison to ‘Daddy Magic’ Matt Menard and ‘Cool Hand Ang’, Angelo Parker.”
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