“I don’t fight jobbers” – What Chris Jericho said when MVP confronted him in Houston
If sources are to be believed, WWE’s MVP and AEW’s Chris Jericho apparently had a spat last month in a hotel in Houston. The incident occurred on May 18 while AEW was in Houston for Dynamite. This is when Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) interrupted a chat between Jericho and another AEW star Matt Hardy.
At first, those who watched the dispute believed it was a joke, but things quickly became “tense.” It came to an end when Jericho walked into an elevator and declared that he “doesn’t fight jobbers,” causing MVP to “scream about it in the lobby.”
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter wrote, “There was a confrontation in the hotel the wrestlers were staying at between Chris Jericho and MVP at about 1 a.m. after the Dynamite tapings. Something that I’m not clear of happened 18 months ago where they had a falling out. Jericho was talking to Matt Hardy and MVP showed up. Most people didn’t know what was up and thought he was kidding around until it became clear he wasn’t kidding.”
He continued, “Nothing bad happened even though it was a tense situation. Jericho did tell him that he doesn’t fight jobbers when he got in the elevator and MVP was screaming about it in the lobby.”
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MVP Chris Jericho feud: How did it all start?
The altercation is thought to have started with a Twitter exchange between these two back in November 2020. The 48-year-old wrestler had asked Jericho to delete his tweet where the latter wrote a theory about how long it took to finalize the US presidential election results between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. MVP revealed five months later that Jericho had blocked him on Twitter.
MVP and Jericho worked together in WWE between 2007 and 2010. During that time, they wrestled each other multiple times, with Jericho and Big Show successfully defending the WWE Unified Tag Team Championships twice against Montel Vontavious Porter and Mark Henry in 2009.
Jericho, a former WWE world, intercontinental, and tag team champion, joined AEW in 2019 and became the promotion’s first world champion. Meanwhile, Montel Vontavious Porter returned to WWE in 2020 as a surprise entrance in the Royal Rumble match, where he stayed to help Bobby Lashley win two WWE Championships.
The 48-year-old WWE star is currently a part-time wrestler and Omos’ manager. He was a two-time United States champion and once held the tag team titles alongside Hardy during his first run in WWE.
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