WWE News: Chris Jericho Vs. Daniel Bryan At WrestleMania? Jericho Is Interested, But Says It Won’t Happen This Year

This week on Chris Jericho’s podcast — Talk is Jericho— Y2J reviewed this past Sunday’s WWE Fast Lane pay-per-view with Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, and before Jericho started talking with Meltzer, he teased that during their conversation, Meltzer asks him about this year’s WrestleMania, and Jericho teases that he may be there.

“I could be at WrestleMania 31— maybe I will be, maybe I won’t be. You never know.”

When Metlzer and Jericho began talking, they both tried to figure out who Daniel Bryan’s opponent at WrestleMania is going to be, as he is now out of the WWE Championship picture. They both were pretty sure that his opponent will end up being Sheamus, but Meltzer suggested that Chris Jericho himself should be the one to take on Bryan at WrestleMania. Jericho responded by saying that he’s interested in facing Bryan, and did pitch the idea to Vince McMahon before last year’s WrestleMania, but due to the fact that WWE had to end up putting Bryan in the main-event, the idea was thrown out the window.

“[Daniel Bryan] and I had one really good six minute match on his first night in NXT, and just so you know, last year I did pitch Jericho and Daniel Bryan before his ascension when he was supposed to be wrestling Sheamus, and I called Vince and said ‘Let me work with Bryan’ and he said ‘I don’t know, you guys are both babyfaces’ and I said ‘It doesn’t matter, the wrestling fans will love it.’ Vince thought about it, then — of course — CM Punk went out, and Daniel started getting huge, and that was the end of it. That would be a great match to have, and I would love to do that, but just the fact that I’m talking about it right now tells you that it’s not going to happen this year.”

Now that Jericho has officially said that he’s not going to be at WrestleMania this year, it’s very likely that Daniel Bryan will end up taking on the returning Sheamus. As Jericho said, WWE wanted to do that match last year before the fans forced WWE to put Bryan in the main-event. So it’s likely that they’ll do last year’s plan this year.

There are some WWE fans who still believe that Daniel Bryan will still end up in the main-event at WrestleMania, but that is definitely not going to happen.

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