Chris Jericho Angrily Confronted Brock Lesnar After He Beat The Shit Out Of Randy Orton

WON - The ending of the Randy Orton vs. Brock Lesnar SummerSlam match, which went pretty much as planned, led to a verbal and somewhat physical confrontation between Lesnar and Chris Jericho last night.

According to multiple sources, Jericho came to the gorilla position just as the match ended, apparently to see if Orton was okay and to find out what exactly happened. He asked Michael Hayes what the finish was or if that was the finish. Hayes wouldn’t answer him at which point Jericho said, “That’s bullsh*t.”

Jericho said that just as Lesnar came back from the ring. Lesnar thought he was talking about his match, and called Jericho a pussy according to one version, or “shut up” according to another, and to mind his own business. The two got face-to-face and started exchanging words, with one version saying they were shouting at each other the whole time.

Lesnar pushed Jericho with his fingers, and Jericho did what was described as the “Rousey-Tate” foreheed press. One version also had Jericho shoving Lesnar to the wall at one point.

They got tangled up against the wall and Lesnar told Jericho to punch him or kiss him. Paul “HHH” Levesque jumped in quickly and broke it up. It was heated enough that they went back at it at which time Vince McMahon broke it up. Jericho started yelling about Lesnar and McMahon told Jericho that it was all a work and to be professional.

This is what was so outrageous about the ending to SummerSlam on Sunday, it was so out of the blue, so ridiculous that even the most respected veterans like Chris Jericho had no idea what was going on. I mentioned that it had to be a work because if Lesnar actually went off script and pummeled Orton that way, things would have escalated backstage. And turns out they did anyway. Y2J going face to face with the much bigger and stronger Lesnar says a lot, but mostly says that the WWE lifers are really tired of Lesnar’s shit. The guys who give everything to wrestling only to see Lesnar waltz in and main event all the PPVs while not giving a shit about it has bothered Jericho enough that he was willing to get his ass kicked for Randy Orton.

Now obviously Jericho could have gone about it differently…mainly just waiting to get the facts before losing his mind. But at the same time, it was that ridiculously aggressive and bloody of a match that he really felt there was no way Lesnar was supposed to do that. Pretty wild that even a guy like Jericho couldn’t figure out if it was a work or not.

That’s what so great about what we, I mean they, do. Blur the line between real and fake as much as possible to the point the people involved in it don’t even know what to believe or not. Is it real? Is it fake? That’s the beauty of it all.