10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2017
7. Triple H Didn't Like The Festival Of Friendship
Without hyperbole, the Festival Of Friendship may have been the best piece of WWE television all year.
From a period with several stone cold in-ring classics and a number of tremendous surprises, the grand gesture from Chris Jericho to Kevin Owens ahead of the latter brutalising the former was a glossy version of an old school class.
It very nearly didn't play out the way we got it.
Speaking to Inside The Ropes back in 2019 (h/t to Ringside News for the transcription), Jericho said;
“One of the best segments in Raw history people say and I had to fight for that. Vince was not there that week. All the stuff we agreed on was changed and I had to fight back and f*cking me and Triple H were not in a good agreement. He was like ‘You’re wrong’ and I was ‘You’re wrong’ — ‘It’s my segment’ — ‘It’s my show’ — ‘It’s not your show it’s Vince’s show, blah, blah, blah.'”
The future AEW World Champion noted that 'The Game' later reached out to him via text to say the segment was excellent, but disappointingly didn't specify if an apology or "I was wrong" came alongside it. He'd have almost certainly eaten another flatscreen at the hands of Hunter himself if that ever got out.