From the List of Jericho to the Festival of Friendship; from running afoul of Ashton Kutchner to finally realizing WWE cloned Tom Phillips, Chris Jericho‘s work since returning to WWE this most recent time around (not counting his brief initial work as a babyface, which we refuse to treat as canon) was absolutely lights-out.
He could do no wrong, and he knew it. And we loved every second of it.
Jericho stopped by Busted Open Radio on Thursday to shoot the breeze-ski, and he talked about how much he enjoyed this most recent run. In fact, he was such a fan of what he accomplished this last time around, that he would rank it in the top two of the best stretches of his career.
“Not to pat yourself on the back, but if you ask me “Was this the best run of my career” that’s not for me to answer, it’s for the fans and the people who watch the shows to decide . It’s definitely one of my favorites, top two along with the the Shawn Michaels feud and that era of Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio, Big Show was my partner.
“This year, I would like to say that we were geniuses and we thought to do this from the start and orchestrated the whole thing, but it just was all very organic. The whole partnership with Kevin Owens, the whole list, ‘stupid idiot’ all that stuff it just became a thing much to my surprise to be honest with you.
” … When you catch lightning in a bottle in the wrestling business, you gotta run with it because you never know if it’s going to happen again. So as soon as everything really started getting over last March, we knew that we really weren’t doing much with Fozzy and the guys were doing another Stuck Mojo record so I said ‘Listen, I’m just gonna stay in WWE for 2016, I’ll take a break from the road with the band.’
“I think it was a pretty fun route because it just kept getting better and better even up until Smackdown on Tuesday. It was a great way to end the saga between Owens and Jericho because it started organically and then we went through the whole ups and downs and all this other stuff and turning on each other and then finally getting the surprise win on Sunday [Payback] and then having him take me out, kill the ‘knight in shining armor’ on Tuesday I think was a fitting end and a nice way to kind of button everything up.”
Yeah, I’d probably put it in the top two as well, if we’re just talking WWE runs. I’m also partial to “best in the world at what I do” suit-wearing Jericho, and of course if we’re talking about his entire career, everything he did in WCW from the time he stopped being a fired-up white meat babyface is untouchable.
