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Old 12-16-2007, 06:21 PM   #1
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How can WWE blame Jericho for not being "over"

Take a look at RVD's return and Jericho's, the answerer is obvious, by the time Jericho debuted nobody was surprised because everybody knew, fucking idiots.


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Old 12-16-2007, 06:22 PM   #2
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It's because of his new haircut :foc:.....
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:23 PM   #3
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:27 PM   #4
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they should have done it like a shoot the way they did Matt Hardy.

The problem with Jericho,except for that lesbian hairdo, is that he seems to be the same upper-mid carder that we were used to. They should have developed his character with a more edgier atitude and less gay clothing. The promo he cut on his return was so weak compared to his other stuff.

Jericho seems like he is just back to cash in. RVD will be back doing the very same thing in s months time.
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:29 PM   #5
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They should of brought him back like crow sting,

But then again I think anyone coming back should be brought back like crow sting

Jeff Hardy for instance would of made a great crow sting

You know who else would make a good crow sting? Sting, I think he'd be good.
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:32 PM   #6
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:40 PM   #7
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Jericho is completely overhyped by the internet.
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:44 PM   #8
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Maybe because really isn't as great as some people think.
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:48 PM   #9
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Old 12-16-2007, 06:49 PM   #10
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Jericho is completely overhyped by the internet.
I agree, which is sad because I do like him.
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Old 12-16-2007, 07:00 PM   #11
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Jericho is completely overhyped by the internet.
Not really...he was over as fuck in a time where Austin and Rock were in their prime.
I'll admit, smarks love him but a lot has been done wrong with him.
Right now, it's a combination of him being rusty/not exciting, and bad handling of it.
His comeback was supposed to be important, and though done excellently off the bat, was important for about 10 minutes. He was just another guy the next monday.
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Old 12-16-2007, 07:10 PM   #12
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The WWE made a huge mistake putting him in a program with Orton right away. He should've saved us from HHH or HBK saying that they're time is over blah blah blah, face one of them at WM, then a heel Y2J would've made for a super face turn after WM 24 when Cena returns spouting off at the mouth about how he never lost the title, then Y2J could've saved us from the same old ending........Cena wins.
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Old 12-16-2007, 07:46 PM   #13
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Even if they did it like that RVD spot and he got the monster pop, he'd still lose steam and be getting the same responses he's getting now in about a month.

In fact, if that Van Dam spot was an actual return I think it would have happened pretty much the same for him.
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Old 12-16-2007, 07:46 PM   #14
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Actually, what would have been good (IMO) would have been to take the same Jericho character, and have him feud with the guys in charge like Regal or maybe even Vince if done right. I think his current character would have been fine for pissing them off on a constant basis, while someone else feuded for the World Championship (either continuing HBK or trying out Jeff Hardy).

I agree with him entering the World title scene, and was against even before his premeire.
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Old 12-16-2007, 07:51 PM   #15
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Jericho got screwed because they didn't treat him like a star upon his return.

When Triple H returned in 2002, there was this big fucking war between Bischoff and Stephanie to get HHH on RAW or Smackdown. In other words, they made a big deal out of it.

Now, I'm not saying they should have gone to those lengths for Jericho, but they could have done better than "Who the hell are you?" followed by a match with Santino Marella.
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Old 12-16-2007, 08:54 PM   #16
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If everyone knew he was coming back, shouldn't he be more over?

Smark logic seems counterintuitive.
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Not really...he was over as fuck in a time where Austin and Rock were in their prime.
I'll admit, smarks love him but a lot has been done wrong with him.
Right now, it's a combination of him being rusty/not exciting, and bad handling of it.
His comeback was supposed to be important, and though done excellently off the bat, was important for about 10 minutes. He was just another guy the next monday.
Everyone was super over back then because wrestling was super over back then.

Quit making exuses. Jericho is just another guy.
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Everyone was super over back then because wrestling was super over back then.

Quit making exuses. Jericho is just another guy.
Jerico's better than the average wrestler, and in fact, he's quite good. But you are right. Both in in that he was super over because wrestling was super over and that people are making excuses.
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Yet again wwe took a big name comeback and dragged it out to the extent that people got bored of the waiting. Then again hardly suprising coming from a company that managed to fuck up simple concepts like the wcw invasion, and the nwo angle that was on life support after a month or so.
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Jerico's better than the average wrestler, and in fact, he's quite good. But you are right. Both in in that he was super over because wrestling was super over and that people are making excuses.
He is a good grappler, but he gets a lot of over hyping.
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Yet again wwe took a big name comeback and dragged it out to the extent that people got bored of the waiting. Then again hardly suprising coming from a company that managed to fuck up simple concepts like the wcw invasion, and the nwo angle that was on life support after a month or so.
God, it's not like this angle was horribly long. It ran for like a month.

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He is a good grappler, but he gets a lot of over hyping.
Yeah, pretty much anyone who is liked by the IWC gets hyped at least a notch or two more than they probably deserve.
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Old 12-16-2007, 10:44 PM   #22
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Jericho is completely overhyped by the internet.
Over-hyped how? In terms of wrestling ability? Jericho is probably the best guy they've got. A case could be made for HBK, but beyond that you are stretching it.

Jericho is pretty popular, too. During the Attitude era, he was the guy behind The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in terms of popularity and reactions. The WWE have traditionally just been shit when pushing him to the top. Take his Undisputed Championship reign, for example.

I think the biggest subtractor from Jericho's success, is that the current audiences for WWE shows are John Cena fans. The WWE's shit over the last year has definitely had an impact on crowds, and they are generally softer, and less smarky than they once were. The last time these fans saw Jericho, he was a bad guy who got fired begging to keep his job. The current fans are stupid, but they're not stupid enough to see this guy they were told by the WWE to see as a joke and cheer him right away like he's Stone Cold.

What the WWE needs to do is improve the quality of their entire shows, get some of their old fans back (which Jericho would help with), and push the right guys to the top. That means Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho over Bobby Lashley and John Cena, at this point in time.
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I think the biggest subtractor from Jericho's success, is that the current audiences for WWE shows are John Cena fans.

Thank you alienoid, you just hit the nail on the head right there. that is the biggest reason why the crowd reactions for jericho have been shit.
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Thank you alienoid, you just hit the nail on the head right there. that is the biggest reason why the crowd reactions for jericho have been shit.
Come now. You're just making excuses.
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No,just pointing out the reasons.
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Come now. You're just making excuses.
Excuses are excuses, but that doesn't mean they aren't valid. You could just say "Jericho's return has not been as fiery as expected," or you could say "Jericho's return has not been as fiery as expected because". There is no harm in speculating.
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No,just pointing out the reasons.
I was with you until the word "reasons."

The answer really isn't reasonable, so I kind of have trouble seeing it as a "reason" so much as reaching for bogus justification. I have trouble buying this notion of it being an issue of Cena's fans, given the reality of the crowd's responses to Cena.

Not to mention the fact that the crowds still get hot for certain people.

Sorry, but this is something you can pretty much debunk by reasoning through empirically.

But believe what you want.
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Yeah, pretty much anyone who is liked by the IWC gets hyped at least a notch or two more than they probably deserve.
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Old 12-16-2007, 11:33 PM   #29
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I was with you until the word "reasons."

The answer really isn't reasonable, so I kind of have trouble seeing it as a "reason" so much as reaching for bogus justification. I have trouble buying this notion of it being an issue of Cena's fans, given the reality of the crowd's responses to Cena.

Not to mention the fact that the crowds still get hot for certain people.

Sorry, but this is something you can pretty much debunk by reasoning through empirically.

But believe what you want.
The reality of the crowd's responses to Cena is that the boos died down considerably for a long time. I took this as a sign people had just had enough, and had given up trying to voice themselves.

The heat against Cena did come back, but never to the point where we was truly booed out of the building on a consistent basis. There were still boos for Cena, but I can guarantee that these boos for Cena are also cheers for Jericho (as they were in 2005).

As for other guys getting pops, this is true, but no one really gets them huge anymore. Jeff Hardy still gets the same pops he got in 2001, but in comparison they seem so much bigger. In fact, if anything, I am willing to bet that they are smaller.

There are some pops that are confusing. For example, Lita got a bigger pop than Trish Stratus at the RAW XV show. Steve Blackman also got a mystery pop. Jericho has been getting good pops since returning, though. He consistently gets "Y-2-J" chants, and the crowd always pops on cue for him. They're just smaller, quieter crowds in general.

I also maintain that the last time Jericho was seen, he was on his knees begging Eric Bischoff not to fire him is no help to Jericho's cause. Yeah, Lita got a pop, even though in her last appearance, her dildos were being auctioned off. But Jericho has also been getting pops, too. The WWE seems to have literally expecting Jericho to have been a saviour, which is stupid. People just want a good wrestler who is capable of entertaining on his worst day back.
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If everyone knew he was coming back, shouldn't he be more over?

Smark logic seems counterintuitive.
Yes, and no. Yes: People should have known, and been able to prepare and tune in for Jericho's return. No: You underestimate the effect of a good surprise. No one expected Rob Van Dam to answer Santino Marella's open challenge, so when his music hit, people would have just kicked it into mark mode.
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Yes, and no. Yes: People should have known, and been able to prepare and tune in for Jericho's return. No: You underestimate the effect of a good surprise. No one expected Rob Van Dam to answer Santino Marella's open challenge, so when his music hit, people would have just kicked it into mark mode.
Which works for one week.

Coincidentally, the only real reaction Jericho got was week one.

Hmmmm....
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Also, if Raw taught us anything, if there's one lesson we should pull from it, it's that on a return, a lot of people will get a decent pop, if only for one night.
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Which works for one week.

Coincidentally, the only real reaction Jericho got was week one.

Hmmmm....
What? Jericho's return was planned, how does a surprise return being effective for one week apply to him? Unless your point is that in the end planned and surprise returns work out the same, to which I say, congrat-u-fucking-lations. Combine that with the shitty WWE climate, and you have yourself TL and my point exactly.
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If Jericho had Ralphus, he'd probably be way more over.
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It's all a part of Vince's plan to fuck with us. Think about it!

Ya know the kid that was running the torch to Orton the night Jericho came back? Some teenage internet smark? Vince did it to spite the internet. That kid wasn't the torch runner for Randy Orton. He was a symbol for our hopes for Jericho.
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If Jericho had Ralphus, he'd probably be way more over.
I still maintain that Jericho needs to bring in Johnny Jeter as his apprentice. Jeter reminds me so much of Jericho in his movements inside the ring, it is not funny.
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Old 12-17-2007, 03:42 AM   #37
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I think the biggest subtractor from Jericho's success, is that the current audiences for WWE shows are John Cena fans. The WWE's shit over the last year has definitely had an impact on crowds, and they are generally softer, and less smarky than they once were.
I think the problem here is not that the crowds are idiots for not appreciating Jericho, but Jericho an idiot for not reading the crowd.

He's been gone for over 2 years, and the crowd for one reason or another have changed. Whether that's a physical change or a change in mentality, Jericho should have realised in the weeks before, or at least in the few weeks since he came back, that he'd need to either crank it up a notch or evovle completely.

The same catchphrases and promos might not get him over as before. Granted he's changed his finisher from the boston crab into a move that looks like he's getting dumped on his ass, but that's not enough.

If Jericho fails to get over, it's not because the crowd are stupid, it's because Jericho and the creative team haven't recognised that average fan is different and given things a stir to meet the new demands of the audience.
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I think the problem here is not that the crowds are idiots for not appreciating Jericho, but Jericho an idiot for not reading the crowd.

He's been gone for over 2 years, and the crowd for one reason or another have changed. Whether that's a physical change or a change in mentality, Jericho should have realised in the weeks before, or at least in the few weeks since he came back, that he'd need to either crank it up a notch or evovle completely.

The same catchphrases and promos might not get him over as before. Granted he's changed his finisher from the boston crab into a move that looks like he's getting dumped on his ass, but that's not enough.

If Jericho fails to get over, it's not because the crowd are stupid, it's because Jericho and the creative team haven't recognised that average fan is different and given things a stir to meet the new demands of the audience.
There is a lot of truth to that, but to be perfectly honest, I think Jericho has been pretty damn good on the mic since returning. You don't know how much control he has over what he says either. Jericho has said everything he has said as well as it could be said, so I think the man deserves some props for that.

I am craving another classic Jericho promo, but a lot of those require someone worthy of Jericho to play off. Personally, I'd give Jericho an open mic to make fun of Jeff Hardy, Triple H and Shawn Michaels tomorrow night on RAW. I'm personally hoping for a segment where Triple H confronts Jeff Hardy, and tells him his win was a fluke, and that it should be The Game getting a title shot at the Rumble. Then HBK comes out and says it should be him, because he defeated Mr. Kennedy. Then Jericho can come out and shoot on them all.
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Yet again wwe took a big name comeback and dragged it out to the extent that people got bored of the waiting. Then again hardly suprising coming from a company that managed to fuck up simple concepts like the wcw invasion, and the nwo angle that was on life support after a month or so.
To be fair the NWO thing got fucked up by Hall and Nash, see Scott Hall's current antics.
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There is a lot of truth to that, but to be perfectly honest, I think Jericho has been pretty damn good on the mic since returning. You don't know how much control he has over what he says either. Jericho has said everything he has said as well as it could be said, so I think the man deserves some props for that.
Agreed, I don't see Jericho as a "me, want, title, match" kind of guy. I'm positive that that was "creative's" idea.
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