Chris Jericho has been in the professional wrestling business for decades now and he’s worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. Jericho’s feud with Shawn Michaels is still talked about to this day due to how heated things got between the two stars on TV, but Jericho later pitched an interesting angle which would have seen him and Michaels team up.
During a recent interview with gameshub.com the former AEW World Champion explained that he wanted to team up with Shawn to face The Wyatt Family at SummerSlam. However, Vince McMahon wasn’t interested in the idea.
“I had one really great idea for Vince that I still think about. The timing going in was off — when I walked into his office, Triple H was there, which is never ideal because you want to be one on one with Vince. And then on top of that, he hadn’t eaten yet, and when Vince is eating, he’s not paying attention to anything else.
The idea was a storyline involving Bray Wyatt and Shawn Michaels. The premise was that the Wyatt Family would attack me, and the only person I could call who was crazy enough to have my back was Shawn — even after our rivalry. He comes back to confront me, and just as we’re about to go at it, the Wyatt Family attacks us both. Now you don’t know whether Shawn was going to take my offer or not, but he’s involved. It would be Jericho and HBK against the Wyatt Family, with a SummerSlam match in mind.
It was a really solid pitch. But Vince just sat there eating his steak, and when I finished he said, ‘Bad cow.’ I said, ‘What?’ He goes, ‘Bad cow — the steak is tough.’ I said, what do you think of my pitch? He goes, ‘What else you got?’ The steak killed the whole angle. But that’s the nature of working for Vince — if he doesn’t like it, you’re done. Same with Tony, to a degree. You have to please your boss.”