Ref Week Pt 2 - Mike Chioda Talks 35 Years in The WWE

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mike Chioda spent 35 years reffing at WWE and has some pretty incredible stories about paying his dues working for Gorilla Monsoon, traveling with the likes of Rey Mysterio, R Truth, Jack Swagger, and the late Joey Marella, making wine runs for Andre The Giant, being ribbed by Owen Hart and Dynamite Kid, and learning the ropes as a young ref in the business. Mike also shares some of his favorite matches and talent like The Rock, Hulk Hogan, and Eddie Guerrero, and how he basically ended up as Chris Jericho’s personal referee for a while. He’s also talking about his recent release from WWE, the circumstances surrounding it, and what he hopes to do in the not-so-distant future.

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0:00.0	All right welcome to talk is Jericho is the pilot of thunder and rock and roll and here we go with the
0:18.1	Darth McHagen joke of the week.
0:22.3	Good Jericho.
0:23.4	I do a man.
0:24.1	Don't you find it strange that I just leave you a voice note?
0:27.8	Yeah.
0:28.7	They're restrictive as odd.
0:31.3	Anyhow, that's not a deal with this phone call.
0:34.2	Uh, I just got back from the doctor and, uh, you know, I always thought those or the
0:40.1	BXU's were a buzzer hooi, you know, but he suggested that try him and, uh, you know,
0:46.4	now I stand corrected.
0:48.7	Thank you very much.
0:49.7	Goodbye.
0:50.4	All right.
0:52.3	I like that.
0:52.8	It makes me laugh just thinking about Darth McHagen, uh, wearing orthopedic shoes in the middle of a pandemic.
0:58.8	Thanks to the death for delivering every single Friday with a fail.
1:02.1	And thanks to everyone who's been hanging out with me on Saturday nights.
1:04.9	The Saturday special has been going strong since the lockdown started and even though some things are starting to reopen and
1:10.8	reclosing in some cases, seems like it's going to be a while before we can go out and see shows and party with our
1:15.4	friends in the bars, et cetera.
1:18.0	So come hang out with me tomorrow night.
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