Chris Jericho comments on one of his early WWE promos that he “got so much heat for”

During his podcast, Chris Jericho reflected on the start of his WWE career in 1999. Jericho said the following about getting heat for one of his early promos…

“I did a promo on Undertaker on Tuesday. Originally, it was supposed to be a promo on [Steve] Austin, but I think Steve said, ‘Screw that. I’m not doing it.’ My idea at the time was I was just going to bury all the top stars and tell them how boring they are. I told Undertaker how boring he was after he just delivered a ten-minute super boring promo. I got so much heat for that. I remember Shawn Michaels said, ‘Word of advice. Something you might not want to do on the second night in the company is tell the top star in the company how boring he is.’”

“Shawn was right, but Undertaker was actually really boring that night. I kind of hit the nail on the head. He did this big promo with the Big Show, walking through the desert and getting bit by a scorpion. Everyone was like, ‘Huh?’ ‘Undertaker, you’re boring, and you’re washed up.’ He gave me the line of, ‘I’ve had more shower time than you’ve had ring time,’ which was pretty funny, but nine years in, at that point, I had like 1500 matches. Ehhh, not necessarily true.” (quotes courtesy of Fightful.com)