Not everyone can be the best of friends, but that doesn’t mean you can’t work on your friendships and make things better again, as Chris Jericho explained during a recent appearance on Rich Eisen’s show.
Jericho explained that there was a time during the early part of his WWE career that he and Triple H rarely saw eye to eye.
“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?”
Jericho has recently referred to Triple H as a brother on his social media, and believes that Vince McMahon used the aforementioned rivalry as a way to get the best out of both Triple H and Jericho.
“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,” Jericho admitted. “‘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.”
Thanks to WrestlingInc. for the transcription.
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