Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho wrestled for the United States Title at WrestleMania 33 in what Vince McMahon told Owens was “the worst match in WrestleMania history.”
Chris Jericho recently spoke with Alex McCarthy of talkSPORT, and he discussed his WrestleMania 33 match with Kevin Owens. Jericho, went on to explain that he believed Vince was hard on Owens at the time because he had a problem with his weight.
“He told Kevin it was the ‘worst match in WrestleMania history.’ I never heard anything about that. When I came through, Vince [gave me a thumbs up], so I think he was on Kevin’s case at the time.”
“I think he was going through a phase where he thought maybe Kevin had some extra weight that he wanted him to lose or wasn’t happy with his work as a heel.”
“Kevin is a very unique performer in that he’s amazing and he’s a bigger guy. Who cares? Mick Foley was a bigger guy, Vader was a bigger guy, Bam Bam Bigelow was a bigger guy. Didn’t affect their work. They were still great performers, and Kevin is one of those guys. ”
“For whatever reason, Vince goes through phases where you just get stuck in his craw and he gets pissed off at anything you do and maybe that was one of his reasons. But yeah… the worst match in WrestleMania history?! I was like ‘have you not seen Giant Gonzalez vs The Undertaker!”
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