Chris Jericho On Why The Festival Of Friendship Is One Of His Top WWE Moments

Many fans feel that Chris Jericho’s last run with WWE was his best, and it’s not hard to see why. Jericho worked with some of the best stars in the business during his last run with the company, and of course no one can forget how much fun it was watching Jericho hang out with his best friend Kevin Owens.

For months Jericho and Owens were inseparable, and everything they said was comedy gold. But unfortunately all good things must come to an end, and Team Chris and Kevin (or Kevin and Chris) fell apart when Kevin Owens turned on Jericho during the Festival of Friendship.

During a recent interview with Baby Huey & Bimbo Jimbo of 107.7 The Bone, Jericho talked about how the Festival of Friendship was an idea he came up with ahead of time, and he compared the segment to the infamous Red Wedding from “Game of Thrones.”

“Once again it goes back to the principle of standing up for what you believe in. I had that idea months earlier to do a big spectacle with dancing girls and the whole thing. And then it constantly was being changed even the day of the show it was changed, and I didn’t like it and I knew that my way was better. I stood up for it even to the point of calling Vince when he was on a plane in the middle of the air and pitching my case. Not taking no for answer. Not allowing my vision to be changed. I wanted to go from the campiest “Just a Gigolo” David Lee Roth to a complete scene change of this almost murder like the red wedding from Game of Thrones was resonating where you have this brilliant, beautiful, fun moment, and then it just goes south in such a quick fashion where you can’t believe it. And that to me was the brilliance of it. One of the suggestions that was pitched was for Owens to just attack me, and I was like that’s not how you do it…The best parts of the (horror) movie is when the guy opens the door and the killer is standing there and he has that moment of realization like oh, I am so dead in the next 2 seconds…and that’s what I wanted to do with the reveal of like how come my name is on this? The list of KO…Turn around, look at him like no, no don’t do this, don’t do this, and boom there comes the murder.”

The first ever WWE Undisputed Champion went on to say that the Festival of Friendship was one of the favorite things he’s ever done, and added that it may be the “crowning jewel” of his WWE career.

“I thought that was a great piece of entertainment because it had all emotions. The beginning of it if you watch that that’s complete David Lee Roth. The end is complete Game of Thrones Red Wedding, and I don’t know if there is anyone else on the planet that would ever put a David Lee Roth, Game of Thrones, red wedding segment together, but if there’s one person it was me…and like you said it worked out. It was definitely one of my favorite things that I have done, maybe even the crowning jewel of what I’ve done in all these years of being in the WWE.”