Major AEW Star Opens Up About Vince McMahon Asking Him To Lose To Heath Slater

Following the tragic death of Pat Patterson just under two weeks ago, former WWE star Chris Jericho decided to do a tribute episode of his Talk is Jericho podcast in memory of the WWE Hall of Famer.

During the episode, the former AEW World Champion spoke about advice that Pat Patterson gave him when Vince McMahon told him that he’d be losing to Heath Slater while working for the company.

“We were doing something where I had to work with Heath Slater, and Vince wanted me to put him over. You know me man, but I flipped out,” Jericho admitted. “I’m like, ‘What? This guy’s nothing. Why do you want me to put him over?’ Whatever reasoning was, I went straight looking for Pat, and I went to Pat. I said, ‘Can you believe what this f–king guy wants me to do? He wants me to put over Heath Slater. Can you believe that? What should I do?’ Pat’s smoking a cigarette in a no-smoking area. of course.

“He goes, ‘Do it!’ I go, ‘What?’ He goes, ‘Just do it!’ And he was basically telling me that everyone knows you’re going to beat this guy, but you’re a heel. If he beats you, you can flip out. You’ll get way more over by losing this match. You’ll have much more of a bone to pick and meat to chew on for a promo. He said, ‘No one’s even going to remember this guy beat you next week. They don’t even know what his name is, and they still don’t know what his name is.’ This actually gets you moreover as a heel to lose this match to this opening match jobber, and I never thought of it.

“And if Vince could have described it that way, I wouldn’t have had problem, but Vince did not speak like Pat did. Pat could speak wrestler talk. Vince does not know how to speak that because he’s never been a wrestler. So instantly, you think, well, Vince is out to get me, or he’s trying to screw me or whatever, but Pat could explain it in a way that I understood it. And he was right.”

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Thanks to WrestlingInc for the transcription.