Now within the midst of his ninth World Championship reign as Ring of Honor World Champion, it is protected to imagine that Chris Jericho’s wrestling profession has gone fairly effectively. And but, many nonetheless like to revisit the points of Jericho’s profession the place he was perceived to be held down, together with his three yr tenure in WCW, and his the comply with as much as his WWE debut in 1999. Whereas Jericho’s precise debut, the place he confronted The Rock, continues to be lauded, the follow-up was not, and Jericho shortly discovered himself in WWE’s midcard.
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Talking about Jericho’s preliminary few months in WWE on “Grilling JR,” Jim Ross, who introduced Jericho into WWE as their head of expertise relations, gave his evaluation on why it took WWE longer than anticipated to heat as much as Jericho. Ross believes it was as a result of WWE larger ups, specific Vince McMahon, believed Jericho’s look did not match the WWE famous person mould.
“He was too quick,” Ross mentioned. “That is what you get [from people]. ‘He is awfully small. He is received a…’ Vince instructed me one time Jericho had a female stroll to the ring. I by no means envisioned that evaluation. I did not really feel it, I did not see it.”
Due to this, Ross believes WWE uncared for to correctly go along with a Jericho vs. Rock program out of the gate, regardless of Ross believing that was the best rivalry to start out Jericho off scorching.
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“We must always’ve adopted up with Jericho and The Rock with a pleasant a number of week program,” Ross mentioned. “However we didn’t do this. I can not let you know why. It is Vince’s choice, and it could have been one thing The Rock mentioned. The Rock [may have] mentioned ‘I do not need to work with him. He is too small.’ I do not know that to be true, however we did not comply with up on it, and that was a missed alternative.”
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