Chris Jericho is currently signed to AEW, but throughout the course of his career he’s wrestled quite a few matches on the Grandest Stage of Them All.
At WrestleMania 33, Jericho faced Kevin Owens in a US Title match, and he revealed to Inside The Ropes that Vince McMahon called the bout, “one of the worst matches in WrestleMania history.”
“I thought [the match with Owens] was good but it seemed a little bit missing. The problem with us is we were on after Shane and AJ, which is funny because the year before was me and AJ and we were on after the ladder match. We were second both years and I’m like, ‘Fu–, I wish I was first.’ Because the AJ match was good, but once again, the people are so in to it at first and the second one is hard no matter who you are. So I thought the match was good. I was very surprised when I saw KO after and he’s like, ‘Vince said it was one of the worst matches in WrestleMania history.”
Jericho went on to explain that Vince wasn’t happy because Owens went for flashy top rope moves, and McMahon wanted him to be more of a heel in the match. He also added that he thinks Vince was putting KO through a “bootcamp” so to speak.
“…Vince told [Kevin] to lose weight and this is terrible, and you don’t know anything. I’ve been through it. Vince told me you’re green as grass, you’re not worth the paper that your contract is printed on back in 1999. So I told him, you are now going through the Vince bootcamp and stick with it because you’ll be okay. Do I think it was a great match? No. Do I think it was one of the worst matches in WrestleMania history? Absolutely not.”
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