Chris Jericho on earning Mr. McMahon’s respect and the DX angle

Sam Roberts interviewed Chris Jericho on SiriusXM’s The Sam Roberts Show, which you can watch below. During the interview, Jericho discussed returning at The Royal Rumble earlier this year, his feud with Shawn Michaels being one of the greatest of all time, Vince McMahon nixing the angle and where he would have tattooed CM Punk amongst other things.

During the interview, Jericho also discussed the heat he faced when he first joined the company in 1999. He said that D-X and “all those guys” hated him for being confident, which got misconstrued as arrogance. Jericho admitted that he didn’t “play it well” then, even though he acts the same way now. Jericho noted that he wasn’t completely comfortable with Vince McMahon until he returned in 2007.

“I left in ’05 because I was burnt out and I felt like I was treading water,” Jericho said. “I felt like the company was taking me for granted and I was starting to lose a lot of my powers. I was still friends with him – I could talk to him on the phone or in the office – but it wasn’t until [I returned in] ’08 where I could go in there with a legitimate idea and he would listen to it.

“From the Shawn [Michaels] thing, we went right into the [Rey] Mysterio thing, which was a massively successful angle. Then we went into the 7 on 7 NXT vs. the WWE thing, which I had a lot of influence in. Then we went into the whole CM Punk thing last year.”