Chris Jericho recently appeared as a guest on the Wrestling With Freddie podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the appearance on the popular pro wrestling podcast, the host, an actor and former WWE writer, reflected on a talk he had with the Inner Circle leader backstage in WWE years ago where he spoke with him about Vince McMahon not being as receptive to ideas pitched to him regarding smaller wrestlers.
Featured below is an excerpt from the interview where Prinze Jr. tells Jericho the story as he remembers it.
“When I went to pitch ideas I would run into walls a lot, and then you and I had a conversation, and again I don’t know if you’ll remember this, but I was having a hard time pitching some of the smaller guys. And you just kinda smiled, and looked away like you were remembering something way back when, and I didn’t know what it was but I’m like staring at him like what’s he gonna say, what’s he gonna say?
And whatever you were gonna say you changed to ‘Freddie, he’s his father’s son.’ I went ‘What do you mean?’ I grew up with no dad, so it didn’t click with me. And you said ‘His dad loved the big guys, and he’s his father’s son, so he’s always gonna see the big guy able to beat up the small guy, no matter how much evidence you show him, because his father told him it was that way.’
And I remember like, getting on the plane with Vince, and kinda like looking at him, and it changed my whole philosophy on how I pitched things.”
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to ITRWrestling.com for transcribing the above quotes.
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