WWE Raw Gallery: 25 Years Of Iconic Monday Nights
1. 2017 - Festival Of Friendship
Dateline: 13th February, 2017
The Festival Of Friendship was as tense, heartbreaking and violent a segment the company could have hoped for considering the months of comedic shortcuts employed by Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho to keep their mutually beneficial 'honour among thieves' union alive.
Recent interview revelations also require further cap-doffing towards man of the moment Chris Jericho for his courage in pushing through the segment the way it happened. As he and then-WWE writer Chris 'Jimmy Jacobs' Scoville tell it, Vince McMahon's absence from Raw left a somewhat unenthused Triple H in charge of the segment's direction.
Feeling as though the prior joie de vivre would undermine Owens' assualt, he pressed for a scaled back version of events. Only by going above his head to the Chairman did the trusted 'Y2J' get the nod to do it his way. Yet again, his instincts were absolutely sublime.