Chris Jericho recently raised some eyebrows in the pro wrestling community after he revealed the largest payoff he has ever received in the business, outside of a WrestleMania payoff, was for being one of ten competitors in the ten-man tag-team match at the WWE Invasion pay-per-view in 2001.
Featured below is an excerpt from the interview:
“No, I thought the Invasion show was great. I love the fact that I was included. Like back then, to be in that match at all was a huge honor because it showed that, once again, I was one of the top guys and still kind of on the the spectrum of, once again, having that title again. Like Vince said, ‘you’re going to have it again at some point anyways. Don’t worry about it.’”
“Anytime you’re in a story line with Vince McMahon or The Undertaker or Austin, and you’re holding your own, both in the promos and in the ring, that just solidified the fact that I wasn’t the drizzling s–ts as Vince had told me not even a year before. I was thrilled to death to be in that, and I remember something else too. When I got my payoff for that, it was the biggest payoff I’ve ever gotten for a non-WrestleMania ever. From a 10-man tag, I got more money for that than anything else besides a couple WrestleMania’s.”
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