In
an interview with Bang Showbiz, Chris Jericho brought up his memories of the Ultimate
Warrior.
He said:
“I only treat people the way that they treat me and I only met Warrior
once and he was really gracious and really cool to me back in 1998 in WCW. He
was there to do something with Hulk Hogan and I remember I went up to say hi to
him and he went, ‘Hey, Chris Jericho, I know you, you’re doing a great job
you’re doing some good work.’ I was a nobody at the time and I remember
thinking, ‘Wow, the Warrior likes me that totally smokes.’ It made me feel that
I must be doing something right and it gave me a little bit of a boost and I
always remembered that. He’s definitely a legendary guy that deserves to be in
the Hall of Fame, I’m glad he got to go in when he was still
alive.
I always respected
him as a performer, some of his matches were pretty quick I remember he came in
the Winnipeg arena once and beat Andre the Giant in 30 seconds, at the time I
was like, ‘What a rip off! That sucks.’ But I remember WrestleMania VI where he
had a classic with Hulk Hogan, much like a lot of guys from that time period he
had good matches when he had the right opponent.”
