
It took several years, but today both women putting out an awesome match would be par for the course after the WWE higher-ups decided to shy away the chickification of its female divisions and treat them as serious competitors instead of just eye candy. Heartwarming in Hindsight: Jericho sticking up for the women after Michelle McCool and Melina's match at Night of Champions 2009.Growing the Beard: While Jericho had always been considered a great wrestler with good mic skills, his feud with Stephanie McMahon and subsequently Triple H was what really helped to turn him into the white hot trash-talking grassroots Anti-Hero of the Attitude Era that many people still know and love nowadays.Jericho himself is very aware of the memes, if his non-WWE Facebook page is to be believed.Fountain of Memes: Nearly every word Jericho says gets turned into a meme.Ensemble Dark Horse: It helps that Jericho is one of the few wrestlers who can successfully play both an entertaining Hero and Villain."Stone Cold" Steve Austin) and single out Chris as a safe target. Dwayne Johnson), or are just that popular (e.g. Triple H and Shawn Michaels), are members of respected dynasties (e.g.

One commentator suggested that most veterans really hate most wrestlers who, like Chris, came up during the Monday Night Wars and the Attitude Era, but mostly keep quiet about it because the others are either too powerful (e.g.

Even when he turned heel it wasn't of any help, the nadir of it being him defeating AJ Styles at WrestleMania, a result that didn't help any of those two men. This led to some people calling him (and referring to that period as) Cool Dad. His 2015 return constituted a minor one as he was well into his 40s and still doing his usual shtick.His reign as Undisputed Champion is something of one too, looking so weak he was barely able to beat midcarders and taking a backseat to Triple H and Stephanie McMahon's bulldog Lucy in the build-up to the WrestleMania main event WWF Championship match. His early WCW "white-meat" babyface run.
