Chris Jericho: The Most Underrated?

[NinoBrown]

Who said he was underrated? He IS the greatest Intercontinental Champion there is but he doesn't have the best World title reigns none (at the top of my head) that really established himself ahead of others.

Greastest in the world? To us North Americans yeah, the japanese? Few hands might raise.

 

[CenaMark54]

I forgot, how do you "win" a title in wrestling again? aperbag3:

LOL

Everyone knows the person with the most title "wins" is obviously the best wrestler.

 

[Hometown Kid]

Greastest in the world? To us North Americans yeah, the japanese? Few hands might raise.

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But yeah, as far as WWE goes, he's the best wrestler/talker combo, and best talker overall by a wide margin. And he's not completely paranoid about putting people over, even when WWE completely botches any momentum the other guy gets from it.

As far as overrated/underrated goes, some of you talk up Shawn Michaels and then say Jericho is overrated? That is like declaring the '72 Dolphins the greatest team ever and then saying the '85 Bears are overrated. >_>

 

[the hibee wwe fan]

If Chris Jericho is underrated what is Matt Hardy??????

 

[Quintastic One]

As for the question on when Jericho has last won a match, he beat MVP in singles competition on Raw I don't even think a month ago, and has won just about every tag team match for the past six months. I don't even watch RAW anymore and I knew that.

I've never heard Vince say giving him the Undisputed title was a huge mistake, and even if the reign sucked and was short lived, he's still going to go down in the books as the FIRST truly undisputed world champion in history. That's a big big accomplishment.

Also, insane amount of Intercontinental Title runs, always golden no matter who you have as his tag team partner (the man could make Jimmy Wang Yang look credible) and multiple world title runs in his history. A constant upper mid card fixture, virtually zero ego in his willingness to do jobs for the right of business. Great on the Mic and able to mix it up with the best of em.

I don't mean to sound like a dick here, but how can anybody reasonably consider Jericho overrated OR underrated without looking like a fool? He's perfectly middle of the road in his overness. Which is what WWE needs. A guy not too big for his britches but also a guy not so small his wins and losses mean nothing.

 

[Airfixx]

If Chris Jericho is underrated what is Matt Hardy??????

Fat?

 

[MizMasta3000]

^^^hahahahahahaha

When i made the thread I was thinking how he is overlooked and not so much underrated.

 

[noumenon]

Bottom line is this... Jericho is probably the overall most talented guy in the entire company.
There is not a single person I would be shocked to see Jericho go over in any given night. And there is not a single person on the roster right now who can out perform him.
True, he has never been thrust into that big time main event position for for than a few months at a time. However, whatever he is doing at the time is usually better than anything else that's going on in the company.

 

[D.Nuank]

Chris Jericho The Most Underrated

LUNA SEA wtf.

All these assclowns mentioned them in the overrated section have most definitely only been listening to fin I For You, Tonight, Storm and Rosier.

Phail

 

[Airfixx]

Phail

Rather rich coming from someone who made ZERO sense in that very post, wouldn't you say?

 

[Kizza]

Very talented guy, probably the best overall wrestler in North America. If anything, the guys overrated with all the talk, cos he would be much closer to overrated then underrated. Even though I wouldn't want him as the main face of my company, he is a very valuable asset to WWE. Can play a great face or heel, and that's becoming a dying breed these days.

2008/2009 > Any year of his WWE career tbh. And that includes when he won the Undisputed title.

 

[Beer Money Army]

this topic is about 6 years too late. Y2J has always been underrated. He is the most consisant worker in the ring and outside of it, that the WWE has got at the moment

 

[monkeystyle]

Vince McMahon himself has said that making Jericho the 1st undisputed world champion was the worst mistake he ever made. (And Vince has made tons of really bad mistakes). With that, Jericho was given a chance to become an all time great and he just couldn't run with it. That alone proves that he is not underrated. He was given the biggest push possible and his reign made Orton;s first title reign actually look good in comparison.

Let's look at this rationally. Jericho was not put over by either Austin or Rock when he won the undisputed title. I know that in Austin's case Vince interfered and I'm pretty sure the same happened with the Rock, so Jericho starts off looking weak.

From there his only real feud was against HHH and the focus of that feud was HHH, Stephanie and their stupid dog, not Jericho.

Maybe, just maybe if they had've you know, made Jericho credible at any point it would have gone over very well.

If that statement attributed to Vince is actually true, he has no one to blame but himself. It's really hard to let someone "run with the ball" if you don't actually give them the ball in the first place.

 

[Airfixx]

2008/2009 > Any year of his WWE career tbh. And that includes when he won the Undisputed title.

Absolutely!

I wasn't overtly fussed about his return, but bwoy and I glad he did - He has been at the centre of virtually everything I've really rated since he came back... Rey/Y2J, Y2j/HBK/Batista, his rediculously good performances on the mic against the legends on the road to WM25, 'The Return Of The Dragon', not to mention the one that got away; the awesomeness that was to be Edge & Jericho undisputed tag champs reign. Also thought they cut his return program with JBL prematurely short... They had good heat with that fued and the mic work would have been gold!

@ CenaMark: I've read those comments of Vinces numerous times over the years, but I've always felt they just used him as a scapegoat bearing in mind Jericho was just filling in due to the delay in HHH's return from his first quad injury. As MS says, they didn't truly give him the ball:


*He wasn't built up in preperation for his reign.
*The finishes to the majority of his matches (inc the wins at Vengeance01) were so flakey they felt like poor examples of the kind of booking that made JBLs world title reign in 04 so awesome.
*Save for WM18, his title defenses were all just repeats of the main programs he'd just been through during the Invasion storyline (SCSA & Rock)
*Get's to drop the belt in the most predictable WM ME since Hogan faced Sgt. Slaughter AND in a fued which was more about HHH vs Steph than HHH vs Jericho & the title.

I don't see where/when exactly he had his chance to shine.




Going back to the Undisputed Championship schtick, like a lot of these one time shots (The Invasion, first undisputed champ etc, not bringing DX back to fued with NWO, opting for Rock/Hogan over Austin/Hogan @ WM18.... Dare I say, Undertaker's WM streak too?), WWE don't do the simple thing and end up pissing away something sweet on some hastily conceived scheme.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

Absolutely!
I don't see where/when exactly he had his chance to shine.

From the start of the HBK feud all through till the Cena fiasco Jericho was THE man. He really was the "best in the world at what he does" for that eight month period.He shined.