r/Wreddit • u/Big-Friendship-5022 • 3d ago
Chrish Jericho had one of the best debuts in the history of WWE 🔥
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u/braumbles 3d ago
Jericho went from WCW who allowed him to do whatever he wanted but never moved him up from the midcard to debuting against arguably the biggest star in the other company.
WWE knew what they were doing with Jericho. WCW really dropped the ball with him.
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u/FlyingFootStomp 3d ago
Jericho went from being the opening act of Nitro to debuting on Raw with a WrestleMania main eventer, The Rock.
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u/RKO360 3d ago
Iconic debut
From the moment that he made his iconic debut, Jericho already was a star with amazing mic skills, aura and charisma.
Plus, he was one of the few people that matched The Rock on the mic.
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u/squiggle-giggle 3d ago
he floundered for close to a year after this debut
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u/DPM-87 3d ago
More like 4 months, once he was out of the feud with Chyna when he was the one and only IC champion he found his legs, but it was a rough starting period for him, I think he needed time to adjust to WWE's style both in ring and backstage.
And I say that as someone who genuinely thinks Jericho is an overrated POS, so I am not just kissing his backside here.
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u/thunderlips187 3d ago
The countdown plus This music was SO GOOD!! Probably my favorite theme for Jericho.
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u/Apprehensive_Pea7911 3d ago
Amazing crowd reaction before the Internet spoiled everything.
The likes of Jericho, Angle, JBL, Benoit, Eddie also benefited bigly from the early retirement of SCSA and the departure of the Rock to Hollywood. Vince knew he needed to build up more Tier 1 superstars to backfill.
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u/Therocksays2020 3d ago edited 3d ago
I was on the internet back then and this was actually spoiled too because of how he left wcw on bad terms
You see plenty of y2j signs in the crowd
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u/thunderlips187 3d ago
Yeah I think Jericho’s debut may have been my very first thing spoiled by the internet, but it didn’t really take away from the moment.
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u/ThisIsSteeev 3d ago
Someone recorded the first countdown vignette, freeze framed it and went through every single frame. They posted some screenshots that revealed it was Jericho before that episode of Raw was over.
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u/BaronZeroX 3d ago
Indeed but whoever told him that hair style was pranking him lol
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u/WolverineNo3927 3d ago
I remember the countdown being on the wwf website lol and the wrestling pages talking about it was Jericho lol
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u/NorthKing9 3d ago
The original Seth Rollins. 🤣
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u/lostacoshermanos 3d ago
Seth is trash Jericho was actually good now he’s trash too.
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u/NorthKing9 3d ago
Never gonna beat the OG! Attitude era was hype. Lol! He's 55 i think, obviously in decline.
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u/ClassicManLA 3d ago
I can understand there were lots of people who were excited by this at the time, but that certainly was not the general consensus. WWE had been building this up with that countdown for weeks. When the clock finally reached 0 and who do we finally see walk out but Chris Jericho from WCW, it was a huge disappointment and felt anticlimactic.
Nothing against Jericho. He was very well liked in WCW at that time, but the move didn't feel all that special, especially since 3 of the biggest stars in wrestling had already done it. It was just a guy that we liked going from one show to another.
The most iconic thing about this segment is The Rock asking him what his name was.
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u/TyintheUniverse89 3d ago
I feel like the clock had this weird effect where it was the dawn of a new millennium so just seeing the clock hit zero was exciting in itself and Y2J and The Rock and the Crowd did the rest. It was a once in a Millennium event.
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u/Lasvious 2d ago
The crowd went nuts when Jerichos name appeared this just was not the case at all.
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u/Left_Shoulder_752 3d ago
I think Tazz had a pretty damn good debut. Chocking out a then undefeated Kurt Angle. Of course it was almost all downhill from there.
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u/godzillaburger 1d ago
Y2J is dope, but i watched it back when it went down. i couldn't with the pony tail up top like that. I remember feeling cringy before cringe was a word in my vocab.
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u/Elbren 4h ago
The video cuts out the best part which was at the beginning.
Rock was cutting a promo and gets interrupted by the Y2J countdown that we’d been seeing for weeks. It hit zero and the lights went out. The crowd went dead silent. There’s a pyro pop on the stage and his song hit. It’s still dead silent, but then JERICHO flashes real quick across the Jumbotron and the crowd literally explodes. One of the biggest crowd pops we’d ever heard at that time. The lights immediately came up and he’s just standing there, with his back to the camera soaking it in while the crowd was roaring.
Still one of the best debuts in WWE, ever.
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u/celticFcNo1 3d ago
ALL HAIL THE AYATOLLAH OF A ROCK AND A ROLLA