On a recent episode of “Talk Is Jericho,” Chris Jericho revealed that he nearly replaced Shane McMahon at WrestleMania 34, where he teamed up with Daniel Bryan to defeat Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn.
Shane McMahon was diagnosed with diverticulitis weeks before WrestleMania, which led to some concern if he’d be cleared to compete.
Here’s some quotes from the podcast where he recalls the phone call he received from Vince McMahon:
“He [Vince] goes, ‘Listen, we don’t know if he can do ‘Mania.’ And he had somehow looked, or got someone to look at my schedule, and we had a Fozzy show that day. So he was like ‘I know you’re doing a Fozzy show, and you’re gonna watch WrestleMania with your fans,’ he goes, ‘what would you think about coming to New Orleans if Shane can’t do it?”
“I said ‘Kevin and Sami – especially Sami – are gonna have heart attacks calling a WrestleMania match in the ring.’ I mean, obviously we would think of some stuff beforehand, but like, I can do it. I don’t have a problem, so can you. We could do it now. But like, Sami is going to die of a frickin’ aneurysm is we do that!”
Obviously, McMahon was able to compete and Jericho was not needed.
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