Chris Jericho Reveals WWE’s Original Plan For Him at WrestleMania 33

Chris Jericho ended up defending, and losing the United States Championship to Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 33, and while Owens was always going to be Jericho’s opponent for the show, there was originally going to be a different title on the line.

When the Chris Jericho/Kevin Owens best friend angle began, Owens was the Universal Champion, and according to Jericho, Raw’s top prize was originally supposed to be on the line in his match with Owens at WrestleMania 33. Furthermore, Jericho said during his appearance on Busted Open Radio that he was originally supposed to win the title, and then go on to drop it to Brock Lesnar at the first Raw pay-per-view following WrestleMania.

“I was supposed to finish up after WrestleMania, that Monday afterwards. About, I don’t know, December maybe Vince (McMahon) called me in, he had a big idea. I can probably say this now: the original idea as things change all the time, exclusive for Busted Open, was for me and Kevin Owens to work at WrestleMania, for me to win the title, and then to lose it to Brock in Sacramento at the next pay-per-view, which was April 30. So when you get presented with that idea it’s like ‘well, sure, of course I’ll stay for that.’ Then, as things go, the Goldberg factor started and things changed his mind. At that point I was already locked in for the extra month, doing another month with Kevin Owens, which was the way to do it anyways. My plan was not to finish up on SmackDown on a Tuesday and go straight into rehearsals on a Wednesday. It was not supposed to be that but sometimes that’s how it works.”

Chris Jericho kicks off the "Festival of Friendship": Raw, Feb. 13, 2017

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