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Sami Callihan Nearly Starts Riot And Is Threatened With Being Shot By Security At Indy Show

Not the kind of shot you’re used to. Wrestling can get people pretty emotional. Every now and then people get a little too into what’s going on and forget that they’re watching a show. Sometimes that means outside forces are needed to keep things calm, which can mean something like say, the police stepping in. That was the case on Friday and it almost got bad in a hurry. According to PWInsider.com, Sami Callihan was wrestling Jimmy Jacobs at an AAW show in Chicago on Friday. During the match, Callihan used some of the venue’s chairs to bury Jacobs, leading to part of the building’s management legitimately demanding that Callihan stop. After the match was over, security was sent to escort Callihan from the building, but Callihan attacked them, thinking it was an angle. One of the guards, an off duty police officer, threatened to shoot Callihan if he didn’t calm down, which finally ended things and he was allowed to stay. The event was referenced on Twitter: Got into a fight with secur..

Vince McMahon Says Chris Jericho Is The Only Person Who Could Get “Stupid Idiot” Over with Fans

<p><strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/wrestler/chris-jericho" title="Chris Jericho">Chris Jericho</a></strong> recently spoke with <a href="http://baileyandsouthside.com/interview-with-chris-jericho/" rel="nofollow" target="new">Rock 100.5 ATL’s Bailey and Southside</a>. Here are some highlights:</p><p><strong>The Creation of The List</strong>: “Working with this guys who’s a writer in the WWE named Jimmy Jacobs. He used to be a [pro] wrestler. He came up to me one day and said, ‘what if we do something where you put somebody on this list?’ I’m like, ‘I knew this guy once who had a list of people he didn’t like.’ I’m like, ‘oh, that sounds funny.’ So I said it and it kind of got a reaction.” Jericho said, “the <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/whole/" title="whole">whole</a></strong> concept of The List went through the roof. The List is more popular than 85% of the guys on the show. The List is more popular than I am! And you just never know what’s <strong><a href="http://www.ringsidenews.com/tag/going/" title="going">going</a></strong> to make an impression with fans.”</p><p><strong>Getting Stupid Idiot Over</strong>: “They’re chanting it now, ‘stupid idiot’ and I remember when I started saying that, Vince was like, ‘nobody could say this, nobody can get away with this, but you can. You’re the only guy in the world who could do this’ because when I started using ‘stupid idiot,’ it got heat. I would call the fans, ‘you’re a stupid idiots’ and they’d be like, ‘boo!’ and then, like everything else, suddenly people loved it.”</p>