Pat Patterson Is Pro Wrestling's Jedi Master

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Pat Patterson was Chris Jericho’s wrestling guru, a skilled singles worker and tag team wrestler during his performance days, and the creator of the Battle Royal! He was a great karaoke singer, loved comedy, and spent years behind-the-scenes at WWE as an agent and coach. Dave Meltzer from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter joins to remember Pat’s days in the San Francisco Territory working for Roy Shire, why he ultimately left, and the stops he made a long the way to WWE. Chris and Dave talk about Pat’s relationship with Vince McMahon, Pat championing The Rock, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, whether Pat knew about the Montreal Screwjob, and his lasting legacy in the business.

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0:00.0	I'm talking to the great pat paterson today.
0:20.2	He was my mentor my Yoda in a lot of different ways, but he was also a great friend.
0:25.9	Not just to be so many of the people to the rock, Shawn Michaels, Brett Hart, John C.
0:30.1	and Steve Austin.
0:31.6	Brett helped so many of us.
0:33.1	He created the Royal Rumble.
0:34.4	He was the only one who could tell Vince that a story angle or match was the shits.
0:39.1	And that was a great karaoke singer as well.
0:41.7	I did it my way was his big theme song.
0:44.8	All of you who are on the very first Jericho cruise know that we had the pat paterson karaoke
0:49.5	night that's going to continue forward every every every time I do a Jericho cruise
0:53.4	to pat paterson karaoke night will be included.
0:56.0	He was a performer and agent of visionary a profit a booker so many things.
1:02.0	Also we didn't talk about it as much as we showed over with Dave Meltzer who joins us
1:06.6	to the bad panel.
1:07.6	So he spoke really good English, but he could butcher it from time to time.
1:11.8	And I remember he would always call me sometimes he would call me J.Y.D instead of Y2J.
1:22.3	He called Rob Van Dam DVD and it's called his finish the sprog flash.
1:29.1	So he'd be okay.
1:30.1	So DVD gives J.Y.D the sprog flash.
1:33.6	That would be the finish of the match.
1:37.1	And of course is the classic other people going to go banana which legit he said meaning
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