Taz and Chris Jericho have had very little ring time together, only squaring off a few times during their overlapping stints in ECW and WWE. By all accounts there was never any tension to speak of when they were both active wrestlers. This beef stems from their endeavors outside the wrestling world as hosts of their own respective podcasts. Chris Jericho claims his show "Talk is Jericho" - airing Wednesdays and Fridays on PodcastOne - gets millions of downloads and plays. Taz, who hosts The Taz Show on play.it, has publicly expressed skepticism regarding that claim on both his show and Twitter. When Jericho interviewed Samoa Joe after leaving TNA, he promoted it as The Samoan Submission Machine's first interview since departing the company. Unbeknownst to Y2J, Taz had interviewed Joe the week prior, and the oversight didn't sit well with The Human Suplex Machine (that's a lot of machines). He threw some shade Jericho's way a few times and has gone so far as to say he doesn't think Chris is even aware he has a podcast. It's hard to tell how deep-seated the resentment is. If the recent comments Taz made accusing the Ronda Rousey/Holly Holm fight of being a work are any indication, the former ECW icon may have gone off the deep end.
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