That dark turn the Punk/Jericho storyline took....LOL.

[Mike the Executioner]

It has me going through old clips. It all started with these two talking about who the best in the world really is and how they're going to steal the show at WrestleMania.



All of a sudden, Jericho is talking about Punk's alcoholic father and how his parents had him out of wedlock.



Called him a b*stard and a pathetic damn drunk on live TV. Whose idea was this?

 

[R=G]

Lol

 

[MenacingMonk]

They had dope matches, but this feud is forgotten.

 

[R=G]

I was at WM 28..they were cat calling the match..one desperate guy kept saying "Come on, guys, its not that bad"

 

[Switch]

This feud was disappointing, only thing noteworthy is the first segment in the op.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Terrible feud and underwhelming match. Jericho & Punk should have been a classic on paper, but they had no chemistry whatsoever.

 

[HipHopStan]

It has me going through old clips. It all started with these two talking about who the best in the world really is and how they're going to steal the show at WrestleMania.



All of a sudden, Jericho is talking about Punk's alcoholic father and how his parents had him out of wedlock.



Called him a b*stard and a pathetic damn drunk on live TV. Whose idea was this?

Vince really emphasized the fact that he wanted to Jericho to call Punk "a b*stard." I wish I could find the podcast clip, but Jericho said Vince came up to him and said, "I want you to call him a b*stard. There's no bigger putdown than calling him a b*stard."

 

[collateral.]

Yeah that feud was trash lol.

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Bottle breaks before making contact with Punk

Jericho slips over while wearing leather pants that are four times too small for him

What a beatdown

 

[The Great One]

They had dope matches, but this feud is forgotten.

Breh no they didn't. Their matches were ass.

 

[InstantKlassik]

Ehh. They were trying too hard with this storyline. Their only good match was the one from 2013 at Payback when Punk returned after Mania which Was well after this initial rivalry.

 

[Slic Ric]

lol this thread is polarizing af, I found Payback AWFUL

Mania '12 is fine match, has dull portions but I really liked the ER'12 match on last watch

 

[GOAT]

Their ER match was dope. Punk never cut it for me as a full blown babyface though. He thrived as a heel or tweener.

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

Didn't help that the world title was treated as an afterthought because they put all the oasis on "O̶n̶c̶e̶ in a Lifetime"

 

[MenacingMonk]

Breh no they didn't. Their matches were ass.

I remember the Mania match was a little disappointing, but I liked it more than others. The next 2 PPV were much better.