When former six-time WWE Champion refused to work with Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho on a major star refusing to work with him during his initial days! 

Chris Jericho is one of the veteran professional wrestlers, who has been in the industry for almost 34 years. Jericho is one of the highly achieved major stars, who has a great legacy in almost every major wrestling promotion. He is a 17-time champion in WWE and a two-time AEW champion.

Although being in AEW, Jericho is widely known for his time in WWE. Ahead of AEW All In 2024, Jericho revealed a memory of him during his initial time in WWE, where a veteran refused to work with him.

Stone Cold Steve Austin refused to work with Chris Jericho

On the recent episode of Talk is Jericho podcast, Chris Jericho recalled what happened in August 1999 cutting a promo against Undertaker on his second night in WWE and revealed how boring his promo was to get so much heat. Y2J revealed that the promo should have originally featured Stone Cold Steve Austin, however, Austin refused to work with him.

Chris Jericho said,

“I did a promo on Undertaker on Tuesday. Originally, it was supposed to be a promo on Austin, but I think Steve said, ‘Screw that. I’m not doing it.’ My idea at the time was I was just going to bury all the top stars and tell them how boring they are. I told Undertaker how boring he was after he just delivered a ten-minute super boring promo. I got so much heat for that.” 

Jericho then revealed that Shawn Michaels gave him a piece of advice saying that he doesn’t want to do it on the second night on WWE, explaining how big star Undertaker is.

“I remember Shawn Michaels said, ‘Word of advice. Something you might not want to do on the second night in the company is tell the top star in the company how boring he is.’”

Chris Jericho on his promo against The Undertaker

Jericho agreed to what Michaels said but said that The Undertaker was boring that night and he hit the nail on his head.

Jericho said,

“Shawn was right, but Undertaker was actually really boring that night. I kind of hit the nail on the head. He did this big promo with the Big Show, walking through the desert and getting bit by a scorpion. Everyone was like, ‘Huh?’ ‘Undertaker, you’re boring, and you’re washed up.’ He gave me the line of, ‘I’ve had more shower time than you’ve had ring time,’ which was pretty funny, but nine years in, at that point, I had like 1500 matches. Ehhh, not necessarily true.”

Watch Jericho calling Undertaker boring:

#OnThisDayInWWE 25 years ago on #WWERaw:Chris Jericho interrupts an Undertaker promo to tell the Deadman he's boring!The fans love it – Taker, legitimately less so… 😬 pic.twitter.com/IB3gYOrvEp

— On This Day in WWE (@OTD_in_WWE) August 16, 2024

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