Chris Jericho says his feud against a WWE legend didn’t get the credit it deserved.
During a recent interview with GamesHub, current AEW star Chris Jericho recounted his 2001 feud with The Rock during the WCW invasion angle, when the latter mocked him for not being able to win the world championship. He believes this is the one storyline/rivalry from his career that deserves more recognition than it got.
“A really great one that I think deserves more recognition is Jericho versus the Rock. We could go toe to toe in the ring, and Rock was a great wrestler. Rock liked to talk things through in promos first, which I can do too, but there were very few people who could genuinely stand up to him on the mic. To have a great dragon slayer, you need a great dragon, and I think we were very good from that aspect,” Chris Jericho said.
“There was a whole run where he accused me of not being able to win the big one — and then I went ahead and beat him for the Undisputed Championship,” Chris Jericho said. “We were even tag team champions together at one point, for about two weeks. I actually forgot about that until I saw a photo from Madison Square Garden recently and I thought, we were never tag champs — but there it is.
“Every time we were in the ring together or did a promo or a backstage segment, it was excellent. I think Rock’s been gone from wrestling for so long, and people associate him so strongly with Austin and Triple H, that the Jericho-Rock rivalry kind of gets forgotten. But go back and watch it — it’s very top-level stuff,” Chris Jericho said.
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