So next came the Chris Jericho incident.
There is a back story here. In the 2016 Royal Rumble, Lesnar stiffed Jericho with some punches, and at around the same time also hurt Alberto Del Rio’s back. Del Rio is one of the most popular wrestlers with the crew. While it is not Lesnar’s fault he’s the second highest paid wrestler in the company and only works a few dates, nor his fault that his deal precludes him from getting drug tested or even suspended when he fails a drug test in another sport which would be a violation for anyone else, but it does create resentment because of the double standard. You have no idea how many people have mentioned to me about how bullshit it is that Del Rio in particular was suspended for 30 days while Lesnar has carte blanche to do whatever he wants.
I don’t know if Lesnar did or didn’t care that Jericho gave Orton the “enhanced” line in that interview 
, but it is possible that could have played a part in what happened next. In addition, Lesnar was allowed to use the word “shit” on Raw with no repercussions, which nobody else would have been allowed to do and Brad Maddox was fired for using the word prick during a non-televised segment at a taping.
Jericho came to the Gorilla position, essentially to check on Orton and to find out what happened. He went to Michael Hayes, who was one of the few who did know the finish, and asked what the finish was supposed to be. Hayes wouldn’t answer him, and Jericho said, “That’s bullshit.” The reality is if Hayes had just answered the question, given it already happened, nothing would have transpired and management kayfabing talent on things like this leads to mistrust which ends up being a morale killer. There is so much natural distrust in wrestling to begin with, but stuff like this makes it impossible for even talent that wants to believe what they are told to fully trust it.
At the same time, Lesnar just came back from the ring and heard that, and apparently thought Jericho was talking about his match. There are multiple versions of what happened, although all are relatively consistent. Lesnar called Jericho a pussy, or worse, and told him to shut up and mind his own business. Jericho started yelling back. They got face to face and were yelling loudly at each other. Lesnar pushed Jericho with his fingers and Jericho either pushed Lesnar back or did what was described as the Ronda Rousey-Miesha Tate forehead press (from the weigh-in before their first fight). They ended up in a skirmish or sorts against the wall. Lesnar then told Jericho to either punch him or kiss him. He may have put his arms behind his back to dare Jericho to take the first shot (some have said this happened, others that it didn’t) with the idea Lesnar then couldn’t be sued if he hit back. Paul Levesque was in immediately and broke it up. They ended up still yelling at each other and were back against the wall when Vince McMahon came in and yelled at Jericho saying it was all a work and to be professional. Levesque then told McMahon that Lesnar started it and Jericho was only standing up for himself.
Jericho also got mad when he saw how badly Orton was bleeding and the cut, and Orton assured him that he knew everything was coming.
One person noted that Orton was told to do it, but wasn’t expecting it to be the way it was. He wasn’t going to complain publicly about it but also was never going to do that kind of a favor again and wasn’t particularly thrilled by it.