Current AEW star Chris Jericho has been part of several tag teams and factions throughout his illustrious career. One of the most notable tag teams he was a part of was Jeri-Show. The team comprised him and the seven-foot-tall giant, the Big Show.
Both The Ocho and Big Show were one of the most successful tag teams during their time in WWE. They captured the WWE Tag Team Championships once as well. They had a good run as the heels in the tag team division.
While appearing on the Superstar Crossover podcast, the former AEW World Champion opened up about the time he spent with Big Show.
“The Big Show wanted to make T-shirts and I was like, ‘We’re not making T-shirts. We’re not having any merch.’ He’s like, ‘What do you mean we’re not making merch?’ I said, ‘I didn’t think heels should have merch.’ I was like, ‘We’ll make our money main-eventing pay-per-views against the babyface that sell merch.’ He always wanted to make Jeri-Show shirts, so maybe someday we’ll have to do that’, but he was great,” Chris Jericho said. [H/T Wrestling News]
Chris Jericho on teaming up with Big Show
While speaking on the same podcast, the Ocho revealed that both he and the seven-foot-tall giant had a great time working together.
“Big Show was my favorite tag team partner. He was the best. Jeri-Show, which we never actually called ourselves that. The announcers called us that. I wouldn’t allow them to call us that… Great chemistry. At the time, he was kind of floundering. I told Vince we’re gonna make him like a giant destroyer, like just kills everybody. Get rid of that Andre the Giant singlet, like put them in a real singlet or whatever it was and kind of reinvented him and we had a great run there. It was a blast with one of the best breakups in history. We treated it like a rom-com at the end, like, you know, ‘I’m still always gonna think about you. I don’t know what I’m gonna do without you. We’ll always have December’, or whatever it was.”
Both stars are currently signed with AEW.
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