AEW wrestler Chris Jericho recently took to an episode of his podcast, “Talk Is Jericho,” and reminisced on a WWE Tag Team Title match he was once involved in, where Triple H worked through the bout with a quad injury. The match took place back on May 21 of 2001, and resulted in Triple H and Steve Austin losing the WWE Tag Team Titles to Jericho and Chris Benoit.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On how the match was supposed to go:
“The finish of the match was going to be that a bunch of different things happen. I end up hitting Austin with the Lionsault, Triple H comes in with a sledgehammer, I move, he hits Austin with the sledgehammer, I take Triple H out, Benoit does a diving head butt, 1-2-3, we win, and this was going to be our coronation to the next level.”
On Triple H’s quad tear:
“Suddenly he’s gone. And when that happens, you know ‘Uh oh, something’s not right here,’ because these are four pros amongst pros, you don’t forget spots or you don’t do stuff. I went onto the floor and he’s just laying there, not even screaming, he’s there saying like, ‘I think I tore my quad.’ And I was like, ‘What?!'”
On Triple H going through with the match:
“I remember turning him over onto this table and just hearing this ‘Ahh!’ – this real grunt of true pain… I am not Triple H’s biggest fan, but this guy earned my eternal respect by just how tough he was to go through that.
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