Brock Lesnar’s ended his match at WWE’s SummerSlam on Sunday night by blurring the line between fake wrestling and real MMA fighting, and things took a turn toward the surreal when Lesnar told an angry Chris Jericho to “kiss me back, p—y.”
Jericho confronted the part-time UFC fighter backstage after Lesnar battled Randy Orton in a truly over-the-top match.
Toward the end of the bout, Lesnar took down Orton, mounted him, and started smashing him with MMA-style elbows.
The brutal attack opened a gash on Orton’s head that forced the referee to stop the match. But Lesnar wasn’t done. After being announced the winner by TKO, he continued to attack Orton until Smackdown’s general manager Shane McMahon ran down to the ring to stop the beating.
While it is entirely possible the bloody ending was part of the fight’s fictional storyline, Jericho thought Lesnar had gone off script, so he rushed to the gorilla position — the staging area behind the curtain where wrestlers wait to enter the ring — to check on Orton and confront Lesnar.
Jericho reportedly asked everyone he could find if Lesnar’s violence was scripted, but he didn’t get a definitive answer. Just as Lesnar entered the backstage area, Jericho loudly said, “That’s bulls–t,” according to F4WOnline.com.
Lesnar stands victorious as medics attend to Randy Orton on Aug. 21 at SummerSlam.Splash NewsLesnar thought Jericho’s remark was aimed directly at him and told the smaller wrestler that his match against Orton was none of his business.
Lesnar’s verbal jab set Jericho off, and he ran over to confront the gigantic brute face to face.
But as the 5-foot-10 Jericho got close to the hulking, 6-foot-2 Lesnar, the bigger man leaned down, kissed Jericho on the head and said, “Kiss me back, p—y,” according to ProWreslingSheet.com.
Amazingly, Jericho didn’t back down and actually got closer to Lesnar, butting against him, forehead to forehead.
Lesnar was unperturbed and with his hands behind his back told Jericho: “Hit me or kiss me, b—h.”
At this point, other wrestlers and WWE personnel, including Triple H, rushed in to separate the two men. Lesnar and Jericho continued to jaw at each other, and none other than Vince McMahon rushed backstage to drag Lesnar away from the confrontation.
Jericho continued ranting about Lesnar’s violence, but McMahon and Triple H reportedly quieted him down by assuring him Orton was in on the whole thing and knew that the bloody elbows were coming.
Whether Jericho bought McMahon and Triple H’s story is not clear, but he was back in the ring on Monday night on “Raw” and lost to Roman Reigns.
