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Chris Jericho has officially been wrestling for 30 years, and what a run it has been. He's a six-time world champion with the WWE, one of the greatest Intercontinental Champions of all time, not to mention his success in NJPW and AEW.
At 49 years old, Chris Jericho became the inaugural AEW World Champion last year and captured the IWGP Intercontinental Championship in 2018. Outside of the world of professional wrestling, Le Champion is wildly successful in other forms of entertainment.
He's the lead singer of Fozzy, a New York Times bestseller, and he has appeared in several films and TV shows. Most recently, Jericho narrated the second season of the highly acclaimed series, Dark Side of the Ring.
Is there anything that Chris Jericho can't do? Probably not, but there are several feats that the Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rolla has yet to accomplish. However, with everything he's been able to do this late in his career, fans can assume that most of these accomplishments will probably happen before he hangs up his boots for good.
#5. Chris Jericho has yet to be named Mr. Money in the Bank
Fifteen years ago, Chris Jericho came up with the idea of the Money in the Bank ladder match. On The Grandest Stage of Them All he competed in the first on alongside legendary WWE Superstars like Edge, Kane, Christian, and more.
WrestleMania 21 is remembered as one of the greatest pay-per-views in the event's history. A major reason has to do with the Money in the Bank ladder match, which wasn't just the first one to ever take place but also one of the best.
Chris Jericho has participated in five Money in the Bank ladder matches so far. Unfortunately, he's yet to raise the coveted briefcase, which is quite shocking when you think about it. After all, many WWE fans consider 2005 and onward to be the better half of Chris Jericho's career.
If Chris Jericho ever makes it back to WWE, could we see him finally scratch this one off the list?
#4. Chris Jericho never headlined WrestleMania
This one is especially heartbreaking because fans were actually incredibly close to seeing it take to place a few years back. At WrestleMania 33, Chris Jericho defended the United States Championship against Kevin Owens.
The former best friends were involved in arguably the best storyline the WWE had produced in years at that point. After bonding over their shared hatred of Roman Reigns and other WWE Superstars, the duo became inseparable. They would help one another any chance they could.
Eventually, Jericho held the US title while Kevin Owens was the Universal Champion. While they battled one another on The Grandest Stage of Them All for his belt, Chris Jericho has often said that it was the Universal title they were originally going to clash over.
That's right, after the success of the Festival of Friendship, something that many of us are still getting over to this day, Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho were white-hot. Jericho claimed that not only were they going to face off for the title, but they were going to compete in the main event of WrestleMania 33.
Unfortunately, at this time, WWE fell into a weird obsession with Goldberg. The former WCW star would demolish a believable world champion, steal the main event for himself, and leave WWE fans a bit bitter.
Alright, it's only happened twice, but it's sucked both times. Chris Jericho even mentioned as late as his recent appearance on Busted Open on Oct. 7. Le Champion stated that being the second match on the card is insulting, and it was the main reason he decided to walk away from wrestling as a whole in 2017.
Thankfully, Don Callis approached him with the idea of wrestling Kenny Omega for NJPW, and the rest is history. Still, imagine a universe where Chris Jericho vs. Kevin Owens was the main event of WrestleMania 33 instead of Roman Reigns and The Undertaker. A match that both men agreed is one of the worst main events in WrestleMania history. One can dream.
#3. Chris Jericho is not a WWE Hall of Famer
Yes, it's only a matter of time. Still, Chris Jericho is one of the most decorated men in, not just WWE, but professional wrestling as a whole. For God's sake, one of his nicknames is Le Champion, meaning The Champion for those of you who don't know French.
The only other man as decked out in gold as Jericho with a similar name has gone missing from the wrestling world, probably because he's invisible. Now, when it comes to the WWE Hall of Fame, they tend to leave out accolades achieved with any companies other than WCW, WWE/WWF, and ECW. Jericho has done more than enough in those three companies to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Go over his accomplishments from those companies? Don't mind if I do.
- ECW World Television Champion
- WCW Cruiserweight Champion (4 times)
- WCW World Television Champion
- Undisputed WWF Champion
- World Heavyweight Champion (3 times)
- WWE Intercontinental Champion (9 times)
- WWE US Champion (2 times)
- WWF European Champion
- WWF Hardcore Champion
- WWE Tag Team Champion (2 times)
- WWE World Tag Team Champion (5 times)
- 4th Grand Slam Champion
- 9th Triple Crown Champion
- 3-time Slammy Award winner
Of course, WWE won't induct Chris Jericho into the WWE Hall of Fame anytime soon, right? He currently works for their competition, and he talks trash about his former employer any time he gets a chance. However, he hasn't done something that would make it impossible to put him in when the time comes. Controversial figures like The Ultimate Warrior have been inducted, after all.
#2. Chris Jericho has yet to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Who knows if fans will ever get to see this one or not. Chris Jericho returned to NJPW in 2018 and shocked the world when he faced the Best Bout Machine, Kenny Omega, at Wrestle Kingdom 12.
This turned heads as Jericho had appeared for WWE four months prior, and nobody ever thought that he'd work anywhere else.
In November of 2017, Chris Jericho appeared in a pre-taped vignette, calling out Kenny Omega ahead of Wrestle Kingdom 12. Billed as "Alpha vs Omega," it was his first NJPW match in twenty years and worth all the hype it had garnered. On Jan. 4, 2018, Kenny Omega retained his IWGP United States Championship against Jericho in what would later be rated a 5-star classic.
On June 9, 2019, he went after the IWGP Intercontinental Championship again, defeating Tetsuya Naito to capture it at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall. A year later, Jericho challenged Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Sadly, Jericho lost.
Still, The Painmaker, Le Champion, whatever you want to call him, is near the top of his game. Should NJPW ever want to pull that trigger and put the IWGP Heavyweight Championship around Chris Jericho's waist, it definitely won't be received poorly.
#1. Chris Jericho has never won the Royal Rumble
We might not ever get this one. Still, it's kind of surprising, isn't it? Chris Jericho worked with WWE from 1999 to 2018 with a two-year break between 2005 and 2007 and another one between 2010-2011.
Throughout his career, he's been in the final four in the Royal Rumble match three times. In 2004, he shared the ring with Big Show, Kurt Angle, and the eventual winner, Chris Benoit. In 2012, Sheamus outlasted Jericho, Randy Orton, and Big Show.
Even as far into his career as 2017, Chris Jericho was still running the gauntlet pretty well when he found himself competing against Roman Reigns, Bray Wyatt, and the eventual winner, Orton. To put this stat in perspective, The Viper has the seventh most wins at the event as a two-time Royal Rumble winner.
Chris Jericho pretty much confirmed several times that he plans to end his career with AEW but never say never. WWE has given the Royal Rumble victory to men over 45 many times before, so we could still see this happen if the business is right.
