Chris Jericho and Triple H have faced off many times over the years during their run in WWE. It seems that they also had some issues backstage.
Chris Jericho spoke to Rich Eisen, where he talked about his past issues with The Game. He revealed they did not like each other backstage during the early days. Many years later they are on friendlier terms with each other. This shows how one can grow as a person as they mature in professional wrestling as well.
“I think there were guys, in the past, that I had issues with. I mean Triple H is one of them. He’ll tell you the same. In the early 2000’s, we didn’t have much [likeness] for each other, but we always had great matches, and I think that’s one of the reasons why. We just had this professional rivalry, maybe a bit of a personal dislike [for each other]. But fast forward five, six, seven years, you get to be older and wiser and think back. Why did we have so many problems? Why did we hate each other? Why didn’t we like each other? And now we’re friends.”
“I think there’s a lot of professional rivalry when you’re young full of vim and vigor as they say. It happens in rock and roll bands all the time. Bands will break up, and 10 years later, they’ll get back together like why did we waste 10 years of our lives not playing together?”
Vince McMahon used the real-life animosity between Triple H and Chris Jericho to further intensify their rivalry and their matches.
“I think there’s that animosity that drives you to become better, and if you have a case like say Jericho and Triple H, our matches were always great because there was a little bit of real-life animosity between us. ‘I’m gonna show him. Well, I’m gonna show him. Well, I’m gonna show him,’ and I think that’s good in a certain way. And I can almost suggest back in those certain days, Vince McMahon would subtly encourage that because you knew you were going to get better results inside of the ring.”
With them being in separate companies now, it is unlikely we will be seeing them square off anytime soon.
