Chris Jericho Says He Was Supposed to Face Finn Balor at Summerslam 2016

– Chris Jericho recently spoke with Inside The Ropes (transcript credit wrestlinginc.com), here are the highlights…

On His Summerslam 2016 Match With Finn Balor Dropped: “And then, another funny thing,” Jericho said, “I was supposed to work with Finn Bálor at SummerSlam. I pitched that when I worked with Finn the previous year in Japan. Anytime I go to Japan, I come back and tell Vince, ‘why do you have these guys wasting their time in NXT? Bring them to the main league.’ So it was going to be me and [Finn] at SummerSlam and then Vince changed his mind. Then, put me and Kevin together as a team against Enzo and Cass.”

On His Last WWE Run: “The List Of Jericho was the biggest thing,” Jericho reflected, “along with the ‘drink it in, man’ and different versions of that, those two things, ‘stupid idiot’, ‘it’, ‘quiet, quiet, quiet’. It’s like if I was in a rock band, like I’m in a late era of my career, and then, I put out this album and it has, like, five of my biggest hits ever when I haven’t had a hit in 10 years. And that’s what this is like.”