Mike Rome discusses working with Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens.
Throughout the early portion of Mike Rome's career in WWE, he was a backstage interviewer for Monday Night Raw. At the time, Rome got to interview big stars like Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho, Alexa Bliss, and Seth Rollins on a near weekly basis.
In a new interview with the Out Of Character podcast, Rome was asked to recall some of his favorite interviews of his career. In response, Rome told a funny story about an interview he did with Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho.
“Yeah, I think the Jericho stuff was always good. Definitely the stuff that Jericho and Tom did, the main stuff that he did for a long time but one of my favorites, and it was the hardest one not to laugh on. It was after KO and Jericho both got titles, I think they had individual titles but they were backstage, I was interviewing them afterwards and they kick me out of the frame. They’re going back and forth and Kevin starts yelling, ‘George! George!’, and he’s looking at me and they’re like ‘I think you’re George’. I’m 6’2, so when I'm backstage, I’m a lot shorter, so I had to walk back into frame because there was no easy way for me to slide back into frame. I kind of side-walked into there, you can see me kind of leaning to the side. Kevin, he’s going back and forth with Chris, all of the sudden he just looks at me, ‘Did you get taller?’ and he starts just going in on me, they start stepping on the steps in Gorilla and he’s karate chopping and at this point, I’ve bitten holes in my tongue because doing backstages with them, it’s so hard not to laugh because you don’t know what they are going to say. You have no idea what’s coming out, these guys are two of the best and I walked out of there with a bleeding tongue that day.”
During their run together in 2016-2017, Owens and Jericho were heavy fan favorites in WWE, despite portraying heel characters.
In a separate recent interview, Rome detailed his experience at his WWE tryout. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
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