Why are Jericho and X-Pac Beefing for a Cage Match?

[cj3]

Just as the title says, there's no hype video, last I checked it was Pac v Dogg at Summerslam 00, I skipped Unforgiven 00....and now we have a random cage match

[msc]

X-Pac hit Jericho in the face with the dreaded nunchucks and they had a cage match. That's what I remember.

Backstage I believe it was the final test Jericho passed to be accepted by the bosses.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

IIRC, this feud pretty much revolved around Jericho all but namedropping the term "X-Pac heat" on TV. Like, every week was a different promo about how X-Pac was stuck in a 1998 time warp. I think on the show itself, Jericho makes fun of X-Pac wearing his tired green singlet and Waltman finally comes out in a new non-DX singlet.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jul 24, 2022 5:17:28 GMT -5 msc said:

X-Pac hit Jericho in the face with the dreaded nunchucks and they had a cage match. That's what I remember.

Backstage I believe it was the final test Jericho passed to be accepted by the bosses.

Not sure of the timeframe but Jericho definitely was in a position of “If you don’t have a good match with X-Pac, you’re fired”

[msc]

Jul 24, 2022 5:42:32 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Jul 24, 2022 5:17:28 GMT -5 msc said:

X-Pac hit Jericho in the face with the dreaded nunchucks and they had a cage match. That's what I remember.

Backstage I believe it was the final test Jericho passed to be accepted by the bosses.

Not sure of the timeframe but Jericho definitely was in a position of “If you don’t have a good match with X-Pac, you’re fired”

I think the good match or else scenario was in December 1999. The Ppv fued came later but during another period of Jericho seemingly being in the doghouse. Which happened a lot.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jul 24, 2022 5:49:20 GMT -5 msc said:

Jul 24, 2022 5:42:32 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Not sure of the timeframe but Jericho definitely was in a position of “If you don’t have a good match with X-Pac, you’re fired”

I think the good match or else scenario was in December 1999. The Ppv fued came later but during another period of Jericho seemingly being in the doghouse. Which happened a lot.

You’re probably right. I know the match and have seen it a lot, but I’ve forgot exactly when it took place.

[msc]

Jul 24, 2022 5:51:54 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Jul 24, 2022 5:49:20 GMT -5 msc said:

I think the good match or else scenario was in December 1999. The Ppv fued came later but during another period of Jericho seemingly being in the doghouse. Which happened a lot.

You’re probably right. I know the match and have seen it a lot, but I’ve forgot exactly when it took place.

I thought it was the Raw match but cagematch tells me that was a three minute bag of nothing. Was the test match the unforgiven 1999 match perhaps? It's been years since I read Jericho's book.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jul 24, 2022 6:00:25 GMT -5 msc said:

Jul 24, 2022 5:51:54 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

You’re probably right. I know the match and have seen it a lot, but I’ve forgot exactly when it took place.

I thought it was the Raw match but cagematch tells me that was a three minute bag of nothing. Was the test match the unforgiven 1999 match perhaps? It's been years since I read Jericho's book.

Yeah me too. I don’t know where I have it either. I have the rest on my phone, but his second, he seemed so angry, I didn’t like it as much.

[XaviersSS2015hair]

Because of X-Pac's "dated crotch chop"

[Lizuka #BLM]

It seemed like they didn't really know what to do with Jericho after he lost the Triple H feud. There was a random 2 out of 3 falls match with no stakes with Benoit then that whole thing then the stupid Kane feud then they made him Doink.

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

Jul 24, 2022 6:00:25 GMT -5 msc said:

Jul 24, 2022 5:51:54 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

You’re probably right. I know the match and have seen it a lot, but I’ve forgot exactly when it took place.

I thought it was the Raw match but cagematch tells me that was a three minute bag of nothing. Was the test match the unforgiven 1999 match perhaps? It's been years since I read Jericho's book.

It was more in 99 after he came in and wasn't so much of a case of him working in the ring with X-Pac but more X-Pac would watch all his matches and then Jericho would have to "report" to him afterwards to get feedback on how he did and what he could improve on. I remember Jericho saying he was really embarassed by it as he had been wrestling a decent bit and I'm sure took a lot of pride in his work and here he was having to go to this guy whom on top of it was also a few years younger then him and get critiqued.

Honestly I think Jericho was fine and it was just a case of these veterans who had Vince's hear like Triple H being paranoid about the new guy with a lot of hype coming and doing all they could to knock him down a few pegs. I remember Jericho trying to downplay it in latter years like in his book and stuff and saying they were right but I think that was just him being a diplomat and knowing where his bread was buttered and not wanting to jeopardize that.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jul 26, 2022 14:59:36 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

It seemed like they didn't really know what to do with Jericho after he lost the Triple H feud. There was a random 2 out of 3 falls match with no stakes with Benoit then that whole thing then the stupid Kane feud then they made him Doink.

They never should have made him Doink.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Jul 27, 2022 0:22:15 GMT -5 ThankGodForSidJustice said:

Jul 24, 2022 6:00:25 GMT -5 msc said:

I thought it was the Raw match but cagematch tells me that was a three minute bag of nothing. Was the test match the unforgiven 1999 match perhaps? It's been years since I read Jericho's book.

It was more in 99 after he came in and wasn't so much of a case of him working in the ring with X-Pac but more X-Pac would watch all his matches and then Jericho would have to "report" to him afterwards to get feedback on how he did and what he could improve on. I remember Jericho saying he was really embarassed by it as he had been wrestling a decent bit and I'm sure took a lot of pride in his work and here he was having to go to this guy whom on top of it was also a few years younger then him and get critiqued.

Honestly I think Jericho was fine and it was just a case of these veterans who had Vince's hear like Triple H being paranoid about the new guy with a lot of hype coming and doing all they could to knock him down a few pegs. I remember Jericho trying to downplay it in latter years like in his book and stuff and saying they were right but I think that was just him being a diplomat and knowing where his bread was buttered and not wanting to jeopardize that.

As I remember, there were some adjustment issues, and he busted people/gave concussions to a couple of people accidentally with stray kicks, RVD had similar problems a couple of years later. Chris might have gotten into his own head a bit, but as a viewer you couldn't tell anything.

[XIII]

Those guys were out to get Jericho when he first showed up. I mean, knowing what we know about Jericho he probably didn’t help himself with saying dumb stuff backstage but HHH and his crew and I think the Undertaker didn’t want him there it seems.