Chris Jericho Reveals Idea Vince McMahon Rejected For His Feud With CM Punk

Chris Jericho and CM Punk are both currently part of the AEW roster, and although fans have yet to see them face off in the ring in All Elite Wrestling they clashed on a number of occasions in WWE.

At WrestleMania 28, CM Punk defended the WWE Championship against Jericho, and their feud got heated on the road to the Show of Shows. At one point Chris Jericho pitched an idea for him to tattoo CM Punk, but he recently explained during Talk Is Jericho at Starrcast why Vince McMahon turned the idea down.

“The reason why I thought of Punk was we had worked quite a bit over the years, we got along really well, and we always had great matches. And I was the best in the world, and I left for a year or so, and he was the best in the world, so I said, ‘Well this is great. We can do a best in the world versus best in the world match, right?’ So, that’s kind of what the idea was. The original plan for the opening angle to get that rolling was I was gonna tattoo CM Punk. What do you mean? I was gonna do an angle where I knocked him out, handcuffed him to the ring ropes, take out a tattoo needle, and tattoo my initials onto his body. I would get a tattoo artist to show me how to do it and do a “CJ.”

I remember pitching it to Vince, and he was like, ‘Who cares? He has so many tattoos. What difference does it make?’ I said, ‘The difference is, I’m tattooing him.’ He’s like, ‘So what?’ It’s for a tattoo guy to get tattooed unwantingly. It’s something you’ll always have to look at and think about it. It’s very embarrassing and violating. Finally, Vince went for it. We were gonna do it…..then Vince came to us and said we’re not doing the tattoo thing. Why? ‘Because tattoos bleed too much.’ I think somebody got in Vince’s head that didn’t like the tattoo idea and just decided it’s too much blood and we’re gonna get thrown off the air.”

H/T 411Mania.com