The first time Chris Jericho put Maven in the Walls of Jericho was one of his most painful experiences as a WWE wrestler.
Maven has previously discussed how much pain he was in when Chris Jericho locked him in the Walls of Jericho for the first time during an episode of WWE Raw on January 28, 2002.
However, he is now doubling down on that being the most painful experience he ever went through in his early WWE career when he was still "paying dues."
During a recent video on his YouTube channel, Maven proclaimed that it was definitely the most painful "receipt" he'd been given in his early WWE career.
I had never been placed in the Walls. I had no clue what the Walls felt like. I obviously have seen him put this move on other competitors but you don't know how something feels until it happens to you," he began. "I would learn this lesson that night. Now the best way to describe what the Walls feels like for those of you who will never be a wrestler is: I know you've all jammed or bent your finger back and you get it to the place where it won't go any further. Well, that's what the Walls felt like that night as I saw my boots from an angle. I've never seen them before. Chris locks it in and goes back to a specific point, a point he probably does with other guys, and then from that position, he sat back a little bit further and I'm sure it was to teach me a lesson. You can see on my face as I tap out, that I completely am done. That's not an act, that's not me selling, that is sheer pain. That is the most pain I was ever in in that ring. I still can remember it."
Maven did get the chance to wrestle Chris Jericho again years later and that time, now that he had had some true experience under his belt, it was a much less painful experience than that night in 2002.
"Three years later, I would wrestle Chris again. By this time, I was no longer just the 'Tough Enough' kid. I had successfully paid some dues at this point. Again, I would lose to Jericho, and again, I would lose from the Walls of Jericho. This time, he didn't put it in nearly as tight as he did the first time," revealed Maven. "I remember getting backstage. I didn't tell him prior to the match, because I didn't want him to try to even put it in tighter than he did the first time, but once we got backstage after the match was over, I did tell him that first match, Yeah, I'm ad this one didn't resemble that one. In true Chris form, he grinned at me. Just to tell me, 'Yeah, of course, kid. I have to make you earn it, kid,' and he laughed and walked on. Chris did me a favor that night."
One move that Maven had no problem taking was Randy Orton's RKO. Read his comments on that move here.
Fans can read Maven's original comments on taking the Walls of Jericho at this link.
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