Is Chris Jericho a main event/potential main event player?

[Anybody Thrilla]

I don't know what he's doing exactly, but he has been extremely entertaining to me over the past month and a half or so. I'm not shocked by this revelation, seeing as to how I was the biggest Jericho mark ever during his WCW Cruiserweight title run and to a bit of a lesser extent in his first WWE run, but when he first returned, I found him to be pretty annoying and I hated the feud with JBL.

Now though...his matches are consistently solid and he's been gold on the mic. I find myself marking out for him pretty hard right now.

I know there have been numerous topics on Jericho before, and for that I apologize, but after watching the King of the Ring tournament....what do you think are Jericho's chances of actually capturing a top tier title and having a run with it that isn't a complete joke? At times, they book him to look very strong (dethroning Jeff Hardy albeit out of necessity, winning clean over MVP, etc.) but I still don't really feel like he's a main event player like they touted him as upon his return.

I can't tell if they're booking him awkwardly or if they're booking him fine, but I'm just used to him getting shafted in the past.

I know these thoughts are jumbled, but I'm going totally off the cuff here.

Thoughts?