This is something I have been thinking about.
Looking at Jericho, with his body of work, I think he might be the GOAT of GOATS in terms of Universal popularity. When I mean this, I am talking about a person who really have ABSOLUTE admiration. Like whatever he does, he never seems to have people saying anything bad, or really never have the crowd getting tired of his fukkery.
I know Gimmicks usually are just Gimmicks, but it seems with Jericho, he literally is the Global Rockstar that people want to always watch and want to see more from him; be it Wrestling, Podcasting, his band Fozzy, or sporadic Entertainment ventures.
Even before Hogan's racism, people just figured he was cashing checks. The Rock was viewed as just coming back to promote his movies. Ric Flair while entertaining seemed to dial it in, trying to still be Ric Flair.
This also applies somewhat to people who were loved, but for the most part left the Industry behind them. Stone Cold Steve Austin never came back after his last match, coming in to Stun a person on ocassion but personally left the business to move on to another venture. HBK became a hunter and really shows up to say hello, but for the most part has left the business.
At 47, Jericho has remained constantly fresh for almost about 20 years. And yet here we are, he is going to draw people to watch a really good match with Naito. Always entertaining, and yet he can lose to Naito, and he still WINS because he made people want to watch the card just for this match. That's serious drawing power and really Jericho has never been in that "your too old/you no longer interesting/stop trying to keep down talent/you look flabby n' sick".
Will there be some 'eh' moments, yeah, but in the end it's still very watchable.
This is just my opinion, but we are lucky to have Jericho still around.
Looking at Jericho, with his body of work, I think he might be the GOAT of GOATS in terms of Universal popularity. When I mean this, I am talking about a person who really have ABSOLUTE admiration. Like whatever he does, he never seems to have people saying anything bad, or really never have the crowd getting tired of his fukkery.
I know Gimmicks usually are just Gimmicks, but it seems with Jericho, he literally is the Global Rockstar that people want to always watch and want to see more from him; be it Wrestling, Podcasting, his band Fozzy, or sporadic Entertainment ventures.
Even before Hogan's racism, people just figured he was cashing checks. The Rock was viewed as just coming back to promote his movies. Ric Flair while entertaining seemed to dial it in, trying to still be Ric Flair.
This also applies somewhat to people who were loved, but for the most part left the Industry behind them. Stone Cold Steve Austin never came back after his last match, coming in to Stun a person on ocassion but personally left the business to move on to another venture. HBK became a hunter and really shows up to say hello, but for the most part has left the business.
At 47, Jericho has remained constantly fresh for almost about 20 years. And yet here we are, he is going to draw people to watch a really good match with Naito. Always entertaining, and yet he can lose to Naito, and he still WINS because he made people want to watch the card just for this match. That's serious drawing power and really Jericho has never been in that "your too old/you no longer interesting/stop trying to keep down talent/you look flabby n' sick".
Will there be some 'eh' moments, yeah, but in the end it's still very watchable.
This is just my opinion, but we are lucky to have Jericho still around.
