Thread: An epiphany I just had about Chris Jericho.
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Old 09-08-2007, 12:44 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool
People constantly say that Jericho never had the chance. He was only given 3 seconds here, 5 seconds there in the mainevent. He gets just as much time as Booker T ever gets, and Booker remains over constantly with the crappiest of gimmick. While Booker makes lemonade out of the lemons, jericho just kind plays with them then gets lazy.
Chris Jericho gets lazy? There was a period when he wasn't phenomenal, but I don't think I'd call him lazy. The man always did his best with whatever character he was given. Plus, he was always over. Who are you to be talking about lazy, anyway? There was a period where Kevin Nash was lazy. It was called his career.

I understand that a lot of people find the "he never got a chance" argument evasive, but it's the same thing for Chris Jericho as it was Rob Van Dam. When the guy was at the peak of his popularity, the WWE held him back. I think what people mean (it's certainly what I mean), is that Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were used for their popularity. Chris Jericho was used despite it. I'm not saying he would have been as big, I don't think he would have been, but I think you should be analysing Chris Jericho's drawing power in his abilities, but rather his circumstances.

I think Tovo took too many points off Jericho, and that the reason he wasn't as big as he could have been, wasn't because he wasn't good enough, but for other reasons.
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