When Jericho asks his standard closer, Kofi responds with the aforementioned match in Madison Square Garden against Randy Orton. Chris says that he still thinks of that as one of the biggest star-making moments he's ever seen in his life. Kingston says that a lot of people forget that Roddy Piper was in the ring about to get punted and he came running in to save Hot Rod, which was mind-blowing thinking he was running in to save a legend like Piper at MSG. He adds that at the beginning of the segment the crowd was more in Orton's corner but that they turned midway through the angle and he won them over, which was a big step for him since he'd always been the happy-go-lucky Jamaican guy and there he was putting a huge star like Randy through a table. Big E. names his Raw match with CM Punk as his favorite, remarking how Punk went out of his way to make him look good in the bout when he was still very early in his main roster run. He doesn't recall the circumstances behind the bout but says it was a big thing for him, saying that his career wasn't looking good at the time because he had stopped being booked for Raw. AJ Lee told him later than Punk asked management to work with him, and when E. went to thank him later the wrestler-turned-UFC- fighter told him that the cream of the crop would rise and he just needs an opportunity, He says that it's not just the match but the story behind it that makes it important to him, and he'll never have a bad workd to say about CM Punk because of it. Xavier's favorite match was an X-Division title match against champion Petey Williams while he was in TNA. Woods says that he was a big WCW fan and loved Yuji Nagata - a random name - which got him into the cruiserweights and their style, so when he started doing the X-Division stuff and working with guys like Petey, Alex Shelley and Sonjay Dutt was super fun. Jericho tells them one of the reasons he wanted to have them on was because he respects the fact that when they were told by the writers to come up with something for themselves - which he acknowledges is messed up since they're called "writers" - that they took the cue to create their own opportunity. It doesn't come across as well in print but this was one of the funniest, most enjoyable podcasts Jericho has ever done, and it's easy to see the chemistry New Day has with each other. There's a genuine friendship there and you can see three guys with big personalities that can do big things if WWE decides to run with them.
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