Jericho on when he decided to leave WWE.

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In 2016-2017, I think I’m not being egotistical to say the best story, the best story, on that show (WWE) was the Kevin Owens-Chris Jericho saga. Teaming together, breaking up, the Festival of Friendship, the whole thing leading into WrestleMania. Now there was a point in time when the main event for WrestleMania was penciled in to be Jericho vs. Owens for the Universal title. Now. I’m not going to blame Brock Lesnar or Goldberg or anything. Vince decided to change his mind and go with Goldberg vs. Lesnar for the title. Now you have the hottest story in the company with no title at stake.

Still doesn’t matter. We shouldn’t have been the second match on the card. We should have not been second match on the card, and when I saw that we were slotted as that, I didn’t realize it much at the time, but in retrospect that’s when I knew it was time to split. Because if you have the best story on the show that everybody’s into, everybody’s excited about, and we’re second, there’s really not much more I can do to get any higher on that card.

How sad is it that even the guy who was champion at the time forgot the US title even existed?

And to be fair that match sucked anyway.

[Natural Born Farmer]

I say this as a fan of both men and someone who agrees that storyline was fantastic: there’s a snowball’s chance in hell Vince ever considered this as the main event, and he wasn’t wrong for that.

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I mean...it was for the US Title.

And it was the fourth longest match on the card behind AJ/Shane (arguably the best match of the night), Rollins/HHH (you know what this match was) and Taker/Reigns (which closed the night).

[Sparkybob]

The second match of the card on a long mania sounds better than being on the backend of the card.

[MAD TITAN]

Jericho sounds like such a mark for himself.

Maybe Vince should've changed his mind in 2002 when he let HHH vs. Jericho main event WrestleMania 18 over Rock vs. Hogan.

[spagett]

May 30, 2019 18:53:12 GMT -5 MAD TITAN said:

Jericho sounds like such a mark for himself.

Maybe Vince should've changed his mind in 2002 when he let HHH vs. Jericho main event WrestleMania 18 over Rock vs. Hogan.

We'd have been saved the usual Triple H singles main event Mania match dud if he had changed his mind.

[fw91]

So "Main event or bust???"

But anyway, no way this was headlining mania. Maybe the universal title would have been involved but no way would it go on last.

[sportatorium]

Jericho seems to be creating a narrative for himself so he fits better with AEW and his new crew. He left WWE for a Fozzy tour & I thought Don Callis got him to come to NJPW after. I don’t remember some big falling out with Vince over the Mania match.

[Mozenrath]

May 30, 2019 19:28:10 GMT -5 sportatorium said:

Jericho seems to be creating a narrative for himself so he fits better with AEW and his new crew. He left WWE for a Fozzy tour & I thought Don Callis got him to come to NJPW after. I don’t remember some big falling out with Vince over the Mania match.

He did seem unhappy about it at the time, but it wasn't like this big acrimonious thing. Definite bitterness still, though.

[mcstoklasa]

The Brock Goldberg match was better

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Brock/Goldberg was a better, bigger match anyway.

It can’t be understated how dead the crowd was for that match. A lot of hardcores in the crowd and the supposed “true emotional main event” got nothing but fleeting reactions to the finishers.

[HMARK Center]

I don't think he's saying there didn't end up being ANY title involved in the match, just that the match might have originally been for the Universal belt, but then became about much less; yes, Jericho was the US champ, but the story was meant to be "Owens turns against Jericho, Jericho seeks revenge by trying to take Owens' title away", flipping that on its head with a midcard title warps things.

I get his point, though: that when you're there for an extended run and put a whole program together that gets over and you're still shuffled away for the part-timers to get the featured spot (not that Jericho was exactly full time anymore, but you know what I mean), it's probably kind of deflating. Not like we haven't heard others with a similar opinion.

[ChitownKnight]

I love Jericho and always will. Him going to AEW is also HUGE for pro wrestling (due to his connections) and I also think that him and KO should of wrested for the universal title. That being said...

What a dumb f***ing thing to be salty about lmao. Their match had decent focus and was still for the US title. Plus how is he more mad about this than jobbing to Fandango?

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I like Jericho and KO way more than Lesnar and Goldberg but that was a dream match and was always gonna be ahead of them.

[HMARK Center]

May 30, 2019 19:42:29 GMT -5 ChitownKnight said:

I love Jericho and always will. Him going to AEW is also HUGE for pro wrestling (due to his connections) and I also think that him and KO should of wrested for the universal title. That being said...

What a dumb f***ing thing to be salty about lmao. Their match had decent focus and was still for the US title. Plus how is he more mad about this than jobbing to Fandango?

I think he wanted to put Fandango over.

And it's not like he's saying this set him off and what what made him leave the company, reads more like this was the first crack for him that made him rethink things, like he was seeing "huh, give all the work we put into this angle I guess this is as high up as I can go here now" and started to think that meant he had to make a change.

[Dub H]

I think the biggest point is that Lesnar vs Goldberg didnt need the goddamn title,all it did was take some heat away from Owens.

Plus the match itself was just a short-term gain,nothing was gained from it.Only Goldberg went out of it looking better.He is the only one so far to beat Lesnar clean.

[Zone Was Wrong]

As a person who wasn't a fan of Goldberg as champ, I agree with him. That story was fantastic and I still don't think Goldberg/Lesnar needed the title to make it memorable.

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he probably slams the steering wheel while at a stoplight still thinking about this

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He’s right though.

Lesnar and Goldberg didn’t need the title. KO/Jericho did.

[schma]

Yeah, I suspect he's more annoyed that the Universal Title was removed from the story than the fact that they weren't main eventing. I suspect even he realizes that wasn't in the cards, good story or no. The Universal Title should never have been near Brock/Goldberg. It had enough heat just from their previous encounter.