The late Nancy Benoit is receiving a high honor. Recently Chris Jericho shared his appreciation for her being recognized for her pro wrestling work.
With 2023 having come to an end, Pro Wrestling Illustrated is continuing its yearly tradition by giving out to various awards to various wrestlers for their contribution to the professional wrestling business. This year, PWI awarded the late Nancy Benoit the Stanley Weston Lifetime Achievement Award. This was one of two Weston awards given out this year, with Sting receiving the other one.
Upon seeing the award being presented to the late wrestler, The Ocho, Chris Jericho took to his Instagram to share some positive words about the former WWE Superstar.
“I’m so proud and happy that my friend the late #NancyBenoit is being honored with the 2024 @officialpwi #StanleyWeston Lifetime Achievement Award! I hope this helps people remember how GREAT she was as #Woman and how much of a pioneer she was in our business. Love and miss you Nan! #swordfish ❤️ @butisitfunny @davidbenoit1,” Chris Jericho posted.
Jimmy Jacobs praises Chris Jericho and the Festival of Friendship
Recently, Jimmy Jacobs was interviewed by Bryan Asbury of Developmentally Speaking. During the interview, the former WWE writer mentioned that one of his favorite segments to work in was the Festival of Friendship storyline with Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho.
“The Festival of Friendship was great. Yeah, that was good. Because that was like the culmination of the Kevin [Owens] and Chris [Jericho] stuff. Which was like the fun stuff I did there. It’s weird being in creative and… You just… You’re working on different stuff mostly every week. But then you like… The Kevin and Chris stuff was something that I was on and I sort of stayed on it. It was my thing. I mean it’s not my thing. It was the thing that I was helping write and produce. Because it’s all a collaborative thing. That’s something that was a big change when I started working backstage. The buck doesn’t stop with you right?
The buck stops with you
“As a performer the buck stops with you. It doesn’t matter what anybody says beforehand. It doesn’t matter what anybody thinks. It’s like the buck stops with you. You are the guy in the ring that’s going to do whatever. And it’s going to be good because if it’s going to be bad, it’s bad because of you. As a writer working creative, you just, you guys talk and you go, ‘All right! Go out there’. And you hope it’s going to be good or you hope it’s going to be great or… And so nothing is really yours.”
“You just have a hand in it. I was grateful to have a hand… Working with Chris and that fun time with him and Kevin. And the Festival of Friendship was just kind of the culmination of that. I remember feeling like, ‘F*** that was a home run. We did it!’ It was the first time since I’d wrestled that I remember going to a show that day. Feeling that game day like anxiety. The same way you feel when you have a big match. So that was just fun,” Jimmy Jacobs said.
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