The former AEW Champion Chris Jerico recently appeared as special guest on the Broken Skull Sessions with Stone Cold Steve Austin and discussed about several topics including rejected plans with Goldberg in WCW.
The Iconic Goldberg and Chris Jericho were part of WCW back in 90s during Monday Night Wars. At that time, Goldberg was one of the top superstar while Chris Jericho is mid-card player.
The night after Bash at the Beach ‘98, Chris Jericho is hastily interviewed during a Nitro commercial break on WCW Backstage Blast.
He discusses Dean Malenko, “Jo-Jo Dillon”, & “Ron Mysterio” working against his Cruiserweight Title reign. pic.twitter.com/oP6B028TfR
— Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) April 8, 2021
During the chat with WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold, Chris Jericho revealed that he called out Goldberg for a match in WCW and had a idea of being squashed by WCW Legend Goldberg, making it as greatest squash match of all time but that plans didn’t took place.
“When I did the thing with Goldberg, it was just supposed to be a joke. I was on the pay-per-view, I challenged Goldberg, they sent out Gillberg, not Gillberg, (but) a Gillberg type. Bill (Goldberg) was at the time very young in the business, he was very angry at me for doing it. And we kept pushing it and pushing it to where we built up this match for Jericho and Goldberg that never happened ’cause Bill didn’t want to do it. One thing led to another… people were super into it. What I wanted to do was, I wanted to do the greatest squash match of all time.” (H/T: SK Wrestling)
The former WWE Champion Chris Jerico also stated that match didn’t take place due to backstage politics and opinions, and that’s one of the reason why he left WCW that time to join WWE. Chris Jericho and Goldberg didn’t face eachother at WCW promotion but they got chance to battle in WWE.
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