WWE News: Chris Jericho reveals original WrestleMania 25 plans

Modified Mar 31, 2019 12:00 GMT

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What's the story?

All Elite Wrestling Superstar Chris Jericho recently talked with Inside The Ropes on a multitude of topics.

Jericho stated that the original plans for WrestleMania's 25th Anniversary involved a one-on-one match between him and Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke.

In case you didn't know...

At WrestleMania's 25th Anniversary, Jericho wrestled in a handicap match against three WWE legends: Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper, and Ricky Steamboat. Jericho won the match but ended up on the receiving end of a thunderous punch by Rourke.

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The heart of the matter

Jericho said that an elated Rourke couldn't contain his excitement and revealed in an interview that he was going to face the Canadian Superstar at Mania. This Irked Vince McMahon to no end and he scrapped the match altogether.

Then, because he called me out at the SAG Awards, his agents flipped out... [they told him] that you're not going to win an Oscar if you're involved with the WWE. You can't do this match, you have to pull out. And Vince was so mad because he wasn't going to announce the match until after the Oscars, but Rourke, whatever happened, I think he got excited, maybe he was a little loaded, he announced it himself. Vince was like, 'Fu--!' I knew as soon as he announced it that the match was off.

Vince's motto is to take a negative and turn it into a positive, and he was spinning his wheels, and the idea of The Wrestler was these guys that hang on too long, and I would now wrestle with three guys that have hung on too long...Snuka, Piper, and Steamboat, and I'm like, 'Sh--, this is great!' I know I can do something with Steamboat because Steamboat is one of my heroes when I was a kid, along with Owen Hart and Shawn Michaels. I never got to work with Owen, but I had this great thing with Shawn, and then I got to do something with Steamboat.