Chris Jericho was recently a guest on Inside The Ropes. During the interview, Jericho spoke about his match at Wrestlemania 33 against Kevin Owens.
It turns out that Vince McMahon hated the match and had some harsh words for Owens backstage.
Here is what Jercicho said (h/t to Ringside News for the quotes below):
“I thought it was good and I was very surprised when I saw KO later and he said that Vince said it was one of the worst matches in WrestleMania history. I was like, ‘What?!’”
“Because he wanted Kevin to be this type of heel, but Kevin was doing a lot of stuff off the top rope and flashy moves and Vince did not want that. I think Vince had a hard on for him at the time and it would have been hard for him to have — Vince never said anything about the match to me… ever. He never said he didn’t like it. He never said it’s the worst match in WrestleMania history. Never said a word of it. We talked about him the next night and he didn’t go into detail, but he just went, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’ like he didn’t say anything. I’m not gonna go ask him because that’s one thing about Vince is sometimes he’ll say something in the spur of the moment and then he’ll forget 10 minutes later unless you bring it up again.”
“Kevin was really f*cking sad. Vince told him, ‘You need to lose weight and this is terrible and you don’t know anything.’”
What did you think of the match between Owens and Jericho? Let me know in the comment section below.
On a related note, here was the original plan for Jericho at Wrestlemania 19.