Chris Jericho Says THIS WWE Star Was "Terrible" To Work With
AEW's Chris Jericho had an awful time working with this former WWE wrestler.
Chris Jericho remembered the "terrible" time he had working with Chyna during a recent appearance on the Geordie podcast.
The AEW star recalled matches against the ex-WWE favourite at both Survivor Series and Armageddon 1999, and said that he "never got any credit" for "carrying" Chyna to passable bouts on either pay-per-view. In fact, after being encouraged to treat her like he would any other wrestler, Jericho was reprimanded by Vince McMahon for accidentally giving Chyna a black eye in-ring.
Jericho was a company newcomer at the time, so he kept his head down and tried to make the best of a bad situation, but he could see that hauling Chyna to good matches was going to be an uphill struggle; "She wasn’t good, but she thought she was. She also was in a position where they were pushing her really big that she could beat up guys. She couldn’t".
The then-Y2J was glad when creative moved him onto something else after a follow-up three way that also included Hardcore Holly at the 2000 Royal Rumble show.
He said there were "a lot of issues" when the pair worked together.