Chris Jericho was recently a guest on Busted Open Radio. During the interview, Jericho spoke about being hesitant to work with Fandango at Wrestlemania 29.
Jericho ended up revealing the advice that he received from the Undertaker about the match.
Here is what Jericho said (h/t to Wrestling INC for the quotes below):
“Then I called Undertaker. I said ‘Listen what Vince wants me to do, he wants me to work with this guy who has never been on TV. Hasn’t even had a match. I got to work with Fandango at WrestleMania. What am I supposed to do?’. And Undertaker said, ‘Do it. What’s the problem? That’s who he wants you to work – work him!’
“Talking about Undertaker’s 20-0 streak at the time, Undertaker said ‘How many of those matches were stinkers?’ A lot of them were stinkers. Giant Gonzales, Jimmy Snuka far past his prime, Nathan Jones. He said ‘If you go and do your best and get this match over, and get this guy over, Vince will respect you more. And even if you don’t, this is your job. If we go to a Steven Spielberg audition and the part calls for me to blow my own nuts off, fall down a flight of stairs going ‘wacka wacka wacka’ and I go ‘Hey Steve, I don’t want to do this’, Spielberg says, ‘Okay, get the hell outta here, I’ll hire the next guy’.
“That really was an eye-opener. I had three weeks to get it over. And I remember the next night on Raw, people were chanting his name and singing along. I take a lot of credit for that.”
On a related note, Jericho explained how he came up with the Money in the Bank ladder match. You can see his comments here.