As soon as The Shield first joined the WWE main roster they became one of the top acts in the company, and they hit the ground running as they dominated their opponents.
Jon Moxley recently discussed The Shield’s early days during an appearance on Talk Is Jericho, and he noted that the trio wasn’t exactly welcomed into the locker room with open arms. However, things started to turn around after The Shield got a solid review from Chris Jericho himself.
“Yeah, the early days of The Shield were wild man because the company was different, it was a different environment, the locker room was different. You [Chris Jericho] were there so you know, and a lot of people didn’t like us. I remember actually, you were one of the first guys — we did a random ass six-man with you early, early, early. Like we just started wearing the SWAT gear. We were still wearing heavy ass boots and busting people’s lips with ‘em and sh*t. We did like a random six-man with you and Sheamus and somebody or other and afterward, the first time we ever worked together and afterward, you were like, ‘Man you guys are really freaking good. You guys are right there, you’re in the pocket, you guys hit hard. You guys work like Japanese, you can keep the pace up.’ You were like, ‘These guys are freaking good.’
You were like one of the first guys who was like not mad at us for being there. Everybody else was really intimidated by our presence but you were like, ‘Nah, f*ck, these guys are good’ and then it wasn’t long before everybody started to want to work with us because we were having such good matches.”
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