Maven Says Being In Chris Jericho’s Walls Of Jericho Hurts Bad Enough That He Didn’t Need To Sell It

Maven talks about taking the Walls of Jericho from Chris Jericho. 

Maven was fortunate enough to be in the ring with plenty of Hall of Fame-level professional wrestlers during less than a decade as a WWE Superstar. One such name was Chris Jericho, the first wrestler that Maven ever challenged for the WWE Championship. 

Over the years Chris Jericho has developed a wide variety of signature maneuvers, but perhaps his most tenured and developed finishing move would be the Walls of Jericho submission hold. 

During a recent YouTube video ranking the effectiveness of several famous wrestling moves, Maven admitted that while the Walls of Jericho was not the most painful move he’d ever taken, he definitely didn’t want to wind up in the hold more than he needed to. 

“I was first put in this move during a championship match after my Royal Rumble episode with Undertaker,” he begins. “I never knew exactly how this move was going to feel. This was one of the moves that during my training and during developmental I just never went into. So when Chris put this move on me that night, it was the first time I had ever been in it. I remember, during the match, you actually see my face almost give up on life in general. I was not selling that was really how I felt. It was the only time in my life I’d seen the bottom of my shoes from that angle while they were on my feet. 

“How did it feel? Well, I gotta be honest. Whenever I say something makes me want to give up on life in general, it goes in the ‘It hurts a lot’ category. It wasn’t one of those moves that made me hate the job, but definitely not something I was looking forward to ever taking again,” he added. 

Maven has also spoken about taking the RKO from Randy Orton. Read his thoughts on that move here. 

Following that same match with Chris Jericho, Maven would wind up taking a Steel Chair Guillotine from The Undertaker. Learn about that experience here.

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