This one was meant to go a bit later, but with the return of Chris Jericho I decided to write it now. Why did Chris make me write this? Well, because he is one of the greatest of all time among in-ring performers and he deserves better. He loves this business and would and did sacrifice a lot for it. We know what he did in the past, how he never complained and did what he was supposed to do, but there is a problem with that.
Chris Jericho is known to put over people, because he doesn’t mind, because he actually cares, but you can put over only so many people, before you start to look like a jobber yourself. And when that happens, there is no power behind your “rub”. It’s also important what happens to the people you “rub”. Looking into the recent past, we had Jericho put over Ziggler, who should be thankful he didn’t get cut in recent wave of releases and Fandango, who ended pretty much right after he started. Don’t get me wrong, this is obviously not the wrestlers fault. Fandango needed some toning down of the dancer gimmick and Ziggler will never get anywhere with that name. They both could’ve worked out, but WWE decided to shove Fandango down everyone throats and we puked it out rather fast. What happened to Ziggler is just another examples how soap opera writers should never, and I mean EVER, write a wrestling show, again. They’ve put him into a relationship angle, in today’s wrestling that is mostly a career killer, cause no one cares.
Of course there is also CM Punk who Jericho did put over, but Punk already was a big name, so he didn’t need a “rub”.
Of course there is also CM Punk who Jericho did put over, but Punk already was a big name, so he didn’t need a “rub”.
Chris Jericho, is a great performer, he is the best in the world at what he does, but he lost a lot of his in-ring credibility. When you lose to somebody who 2 years later, a year later means so little he is involved with a crappy Diva storyline, how can you be treated seriously? Well, I still respect the hell out of Y2J, but I notice as well, that he just doesn’t have that power behind him. It’s like what was going out with Kane. Kane agreed to put over everyone and by now, he just doesn’t carry that “main event” badge anymore. There is a lot of speculation about the current role of Jericho, but it’s quite clear that a program with Wyatt family is going to happen and most likely Jericho will, again, put someone over.
It’s just a waste, if you take an edge from the knife you have a piece of dull metal. You might be able to do a few things with it, but it’s simply better to sharpen it. Jericho needs a high profile match win, to regain some “rubbing” power. On the other hand, the Wyatts are nothing but losing all the time, they need an actual win as well.
Jericho of course isn’t the problem here, I used him just as an example to turn your eyes and really open them to actually see the problem.
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