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Twitter Reaction to Awkward Chris Jericho and Paul Heyman Segment on WWE Raw

Ryan DilbertJun 1, 2018

The contract signing on Monday'sย WWEย Raw featured a strange moment where Chris Jericho stuffed the contract into Paulย Heyman's pantsโ€”and Twitter responded with a collective raised eyebrow.

In the process of signing the contract for the Jericho vs. CM Punk match, things broke down. Itย wasnโ€™t in the usual way where the stars signing got into a scuffle. Instead, Jericho andย Heymanย invaded each other's personal space.

Jericho tried to move the location of the match from Punk's hometown of Chicago to Los Angeles, to New York and to Hartford. When that failed, he signed anyway.

He then askedย Heymanย to unbutton his shirt.

Asย Kayfabeย Newsย pointed out, it's not often that anyone makes that request.

Jericho talked about where to file the contract, about whose office to keep it in. He then apparently decided to file it inย Heyman's pants. Don't people usually just email copies of contracts to each other?

This was the moment that got people talking on Twitter.

WWEย fans don't normally see folks sliding things into each other's pants, so it's no surprise that they were tweeting so much about this segment.

There were a ton of jokes about Jericho's actions not being PG-appropriate. Not surprisingly, WWEThatsNotPG, an account dedicated to poking fun atย WWEย moments that are unintentionally inappropriate, had something to say.

The contract signing was one of those moments that fans would be embarrassed to be watching if someone walked in on them. How do you explain that to a non-fan? How do you explain it to a fan, for that matter?

Fanย Jennifer Lynnย wasn't watching Mondayโ€™sย WWEย Raw, but got excited about the prospect of a man removing his clothing in the segmentโ€”just notย Heyman.

While many fans felt weird about Jericho andย Heyman's intimate moment,ย Breakingย Kayfabeย put a positive spin on it.

Whateverย WWEย was trying to achieve with the segment, it didn't seem to work. Jericho didn't come off as threatening. The feudย wasn't furthered.

It was just an odd moment that bucked contract-signing protocol in a major way.

When the video promo before Punk and Jericho's match recounts their feud, chances are the contract signing and the pants-stuffing climax to it won't show up on it.