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On October, 7 AEW will celebrate 30 years of Chris Jericho and what a 30 years it's been.
His accomplishments in the wrestling ring are vast. In WWE alone, he a six-time WWE World Champion, beating The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in the same night. He is Grand Slam Champion, a nine-time Intercontinental Champion, a two-time United States Champion, and a four-time Tag Team Champion.
The incredible list of achievements span over three decades and all of the major companies. He is a former IWGP Intercontinental Champion and the first-ever AEW World Champion.
Since his arrival in AEW, Chris Jericho has been the top name and the top heel in the company. Over the past few months, Jericho has used his name and star power to begin elevating a whole new generation of talent. Jungle Boy, Orange Cassidy and Sammy Guevara have all seen their careers boosted significantly because of their interactions with Jericho.
Throughout his three-decade spanning career, Chris Jericho has continued to elevate himself and others around him. He has done this by rolling with the times, evolving his character and adapting to his surroundings.
Jericho is a man of many great names. Y2J, The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla, The Pain Maker, Le Champion, and now The Demo God.
Chris Jericho is a man of many great matches, but he is also responsible for some of the best moments in wrestling history.
Through his constant ability to reinvent himself, Jericho has remained relevant, prominent and at full-on GOAT status.
In this article, we will look at the many great moments that have molded Chris Jericho's career and kept him a top name in the business for thirty years.
Read on, enjoy the Top 10 moments of Chris Jericho and drink it in maaaaaaaan.
#10 Chris Jericho, the savior of WWF
The timer had been counting down for months, seemingly to welcome in the millennium. However, on August 9th, 1999, The Rock was interrupted mid-promo, and for those of you who don't know, no one ever interrupted The Rock. The countdown began, and the crowd went into a stunned silence. 3, 2, 1…and the crowd erupted as Y2J was here and here to make a statement.
To put that statement into context, in 1999, The Rock was at the height of his powers. He was the face of WWE and had the entire machine behind his each and every move.
Jericho went one-on-one with the "Great One" on the mic. An honor bestowed upon only a privileged few.
Jericho's WWF/E career started with a bang and made him an instant megastar who would go on to thrive in the company for the next 19 years.
It is one of the best debut's in wrestling history and is by far the most memorable.
#9 Chis Jericho, The Man of 1004 Holds
Before Chris Jericho exploded onto WWE programming, he was a massively popular yet under-utilized talent on WCW. His talent and star power was on show throughout his career in the Atlanta promotion.
His overwhelming charisma was on show in all its glory for all who watched in his feud with "The Man of 1000 Holds" Dean Malenko. Jericho perceived himself as The Man of "1004" Holds.
Jericho would produce a Bayeux Tapestry size list and begin to run off the names of his plethora of holds.
"Hold one: arm drag. Hold two: armbar. Hold three: the Moss Covered Three Handled Family Gradunza. Hold four: armbar."
The show would go to commercial mid-polemic. Returning from the break, Jericho would still be in the ring and now on move 712 and still mentioning armbar every other hold.
You watch it here.
It was and still is a fantastic segment.
#8 Chris Jericho, the first-ever Undisputed WWF Champion
At the 2001 WWF pay-per-view Vengeance, Chris Jericho became the first-ever WWF Undisputed Champion, defeating the Rock and Stone Cole Steve Austin along the way to do so.
After Jericho made his emphatic WWF debut on RAW, he had to start at the bottom and work his way back up the ladder. He began by defeating Chyna for the Intercontinental Championship. Feuds with Benoit and Kurt Angle followed as he headed toward the main event level.
The Invasion angle took over the company and Jericho was a major player in it as WCW and ECW combined to take over WWF.
He would feud with The Rock over the WCW World Heavyweight Championship leading into Vengeance. He would defeat the "People's Champion" to regain the WCW World title and then immediately after, won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship from Stone Cold Steve Austin.
In one night, Chris Jericho defeated two of the biggest WWE Superstars in the company's history to unify both world titles and become the first-ever WWF Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion.
A brilliant and historical moment that Jericho still (jokingly) mentions to this day.
#7 Royal Rumble return
Chris Jericho began to hone his skills in planning his secret returns, a skill he would come to master wonderfully in the coming years. But it all started at Royal Rumble 2013.
In the previous year, Jericho had returned to WWE after a two-year absence. In August of 2012, Jericho would lose a WWE Contract vs. Money In The Bank Contract match against Dolph Ziggler and would have to leave the company.
Jericho was absent from WWE for over six months while he went on tour with his rock band Fozzy and no one was expecting him to return anytime soon. But Jericho and WWE used this assumption and planned a secret return, which was accomplished magnificently.
Dolph Ziggler, the man who kicked him out of WWE, was the first the entrant in the Royal Rumble. The "Show Off" and the fans eagerly awaited his first opponent. Break the Walls Down hit, and the crowd went wild for a goosebump-inducing pop and another epic Y2J moment.
#6 Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens' Festival of Friendship
During Kevin Owens' WWE Universal Championship run, he became best friends with Chris Jericho. The fellow Canadians had great chemistry and bonded over interfering in each other's matches and beating up Sami Zayn.
They would go on to become a formidable duo throughout their intertwining feuds with Zayn, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns.
The constant inference would result in Chris Jericho being suspended above the ring in a shark cage during Owens' championship match with Reigns at Royal Rumble 2017.
Their cocksure and over-confident attitudes inevitably got them into trouble. Chris Jericho would accept Goldberg's challenge for the Universal Championship on Owens' behalf. Sensing that he upset KO, Jericho organized the "Festival of Friendship" to show Owen's how good their friendship had become.
In true wrestling fashion, this drastically backfired and Owens attacked Chris Jericho when his name was revealed on his own hit list, The List of Jericho.
It was a genuinely shocking and heartbreaking moment. They had become one of the best parts of the 2016/17 in WWE because of their friendship and we all knew the breakup was coming. It was executed perfectly and made for another great moment in Chris Jericho's career.
#5 The List of Jericho
Before the Bubbly, there was the List. The List of Jericho was a simplistic stroke of genius and once again proved that he was able to anything over. An idea devised by then WWE writer, Jimmy Jacobs, and executed to perfection by Chris Jericho.
The clipboard became synonymous with Jericho throughout 2016 as he ran around WWE, striking fear into others with the pop-inducing "You just made the list" catchphrase.
No one was safe from the List. Those unfortunate to be added to the List ranged from an unnamed cameraman for being a stupid idiot. Tom Phillips for wearing stupid suits. Aiden English for crying after a match loss and Booker T for having a Hall of Fame ring when Chris Jericho didn't.
The List became one of the most entertaining things on RAW its originality, comedy, and the nostalgia it brought to fans who remembered the List of 1004 holds in WCW.
#4 Chris Jericho goes All In
Chris Jericho shocked the world yet again with a surprise appearance and All In.
All In took place in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1st, 2018. The show was dubbed "The Biggest Independent Wrestling Show Ever" and viewed as the forerunner for AEW.
After the fantastic and first-time meeting of Kenny Omega and Pentagon Jr, the lights went out, and the crowd was abuzz with anticipation as to why. When the lights reignited, Pentagon stood across the ring from Omega, but something wasn't quite right.
Penta then hit Kenny with a Codebreaker, and then the crowd went crazy as Jericho revealed himself to the man behind the mask.
It was great for several reasons as it took their feud from one company to another, it set up their New Japan Pro Wrestling rematch, and it was once a significant surprise because they have managed to keep it under wraps from spoilers.
Fans assumed that Chris Jericho would make an appearance at the show, but it was impossible because his band Fozzy were playing a gig on the same night in Little Rock, Arkansas. But with the help of Tony Khan's private jet, Jericho was able to pull double duty and give us one of the best wrestling moments ever.
#3 A Little Bit of the Bubbly
One of the main reasons AEW has been so successful is the creative freedom the talent are allowed to explore.
Chris Jericho had just become the first-ever AEW Champion. Ever the egotistical prima-donna, he walked through the backstage and cut one of the best improvised and off-the-cuff promos of all time.
It was pure magic and harkened back to the WCW Jericho of old. He strode past the entire AEW roster, ridiculing and berating them every step of the way.
Something straight out of Spinal Tap, he was offended by the rider that had been left for a star of his quality.
His mood changed when he saw the champagne and a viral sensation was born. Channeling another comedy classic, Dumb and Dumber, Chris Jericho spoke the now immortal words, "A Little Bit of the Bubbly."
The memes, gifs, and fan-edited videos exploded all over social media. A best-selling T-shirt, action figure playset and Jericho's own bottled bubbly followed.
So memorable was the moment that it overshadowed the title win.
#2 Chris Jericho calls out Kenny Omega in NJPW
In what has to be one of the most astonishing surprises in wrestling history, Chris Jericho appeared in NJPW to call out Kenny Omega.
In a world where genuine surprises are few and far between, Jericho's return to Japan outside of WWE was a momentous occasion.
For someone on the level of Chris Jericho to set up a match with Kenny Omega, who was one of the hottest wrestlers on the planet, and keep it under wraps was a fantastic achievement.
Chris Jericho had left WWE before, but he always returned and even stated that he would never work for another company. So when he showed up in Japan, it was a massive moment and would be the first time Jericho wrestled for any other company in 19 years.
Kenny accepted Jericho's challenge for a match at Wrestle Kingdom 12 for the IWGP United States Championship. The feud was dubbed "Alpha vs. Omega" and became the central talking point of the wrestling business.
#1 Changing the universe
There were rumblings of a new wrestling company forming long before AEW was officially announced.
Chris Jericho had been enjoying the freedoms of a post-WWE career. His appearances for NJPW with Kenny Omega has sent shockwaves through the wrestling landscape.
His Rock and Wrestling Rager at Sea cruise featured many of the world's finest independent wrestling stars. But the emphasis was added when he made a great surprise appearance at All In. Dressed as Pentagon, he attacked Kenny Omega to set up their NJPW rematch on the Jeri-Cruise.
On February 2nd, 2019, at AEW's press conference, Jericho stunned the wrestling world when he was announced as the newest and biggest star signed to their fledgling roster.
His signing was a bombshell and a huge statement from AEW and was one that has certainly paid off. Chris Jericho is a household that has mainstream appeal and kudos with the independent fans.
During the conference, Jericho would say that he wasn't just there to change the world but the whole universe.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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