Chris Jericho Confirms That He Almost Replaced Shane McMahon As Daniel Bryan's WRESTLEMANIA Partner

"A few weeks before WrestleMania, maybe three or four weeks, I get a call from Vince. And he’s talking about Shane and his appendix, or not his appendix, his diverticulitus, and he had an infection in his hand and he had... a staph infection and he had... a hernia. And he goes, ‘Listen, we don’t know if he can do ‘Mania.’

And it’s funny because we were looking, we were googling airports, and it was in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, like the most out of the way place. We were looking up airports close to Hampton Beach and how long is the charter to get there [New Orleans], and he [Vince] was like ‘Okay, you can make it right on time and we’ll give you a police escort, and you’ll basically have to go right into the ring.’

"And I said ‘Listen, I’ve got no problem with that, and I know that Bryan has no problem with it. Kevin and Sami - especially Sami - are gonna have heart attacks calling a WrestleMania match in the ring.’ I mean, obviously we would think of some stuff beforehand, but like, I can do it. I don’t have a problem, so can you. We could do it now. But like, Sami is going to die of a frickin’ aneurysm is we do that!"