Reminder that Mickey Rourke acted in The Wrestler where he was praised for getting heavily into the role, challenged Jericho to a Mania match on the movie's red carpet premiere, then STILL managed to get worked by the GOAT in a Larry King segment where Jericho was clearly faking it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnR_WX5snAs
Rourke actually would have worked a match or something like that if his management and Hollyjood wouldn't be so uptight about wrestling.
>Jericho talked about having to tell Rourke that he was just building up a confrontation when he was on Larry King Live to hype the show. Rourke thought Jericho was shooting with his insults towards Rourke so Rourke brought Shamrock and former UFC fighter/former member of the Israeli special forces Moti Horenstein with him to Mania. There were no problems between Jericho and Rourke at the show.
>Before Jericho went out for his match he told Vince McMahon about Rourke hiring two bodyguards to kick his ass if he was ddouble crossed in the ring. Vince laughed and said “Are you kidding me? Those guys?” Then Vince said “You, me, Finlay, and Malenko would’ve beat the shot out of them. I mean, look at that one guy, he’s a midget.” The midget Vince was referring to was Shamrock. Jericho then smiled and told Vince, “Well, if anything goes down, I’ll take Rourke and you take the midget.” After that Vince said, “Damn right I will.” Vince then swaggered away.
>>1551430
Based Vince
>>1551430
Fucking G O A T
>>1551430
Holy shit, Shamrock cannot recover from this. The BTFO is eternal, its over.
>>1551430
>Height = fighting abilities
Holy shit Vince is legit retarded
It all makes sense now
>>1551523
Most fans actually think that way, unfortunately.
>>1551523
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>>1551523
You're just figuring this out now?
>>1551428
Yeah pretty sure it was a combination of crazy insurance and thinking wrestling an actual match would jeapordise his Oscar chances, only to lose to Penn anyway.
Quiet
>>1551430
vince is a fucking madman
Jericho is the fucking GOAT
>>1551523
>what is reach advantage
Idiot
I remember when chris was young he was a smark favorite, comedy midcarder, and when he crossed over into wwe after wcw died he held his own against the rock and stone cold and all those guys.
Then he took time off and became corporate cool dad Jericho and wewtists started to hate him but he has always been great
>>1551430
>ywn have Vince, Malenko, and Finlay backing you up
why even live
This thread, aside for the anti-Vince faggots, has made my night.
Long live the GOAT Jericho and the based McMahon
Great thread
Based vince and jerigoat.
>>1552253
I fucking hated Jericho as a kid/teen so fucking much dude
But when I grew up I realized I had seen pretty much all his matches cause of the heat he drew, and they were all great. Can't get enough of him now, literally the brains in the industry.
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