10 Shocking Times WWE Pulled The Plug On Mega Pushes

10. Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho's owned himself for some of the silliness he just about got away with going "one on one with The Great One" on his historic debut, but others in the dressing room weren't quite as willing as The Rock to help him over the early hurdles.

The pop from the Chicago crowd upon seeing "JERICHO" splash across the TitanTron extracts goosebumps 3.6million views later, but there's less love for a SmackDown sequel a few weeks removed from the buzz. His official in-ring debut drew derision backstage from opponent Road Dogg and his D-Generation X buddies, foreshadowing his cards being marked by a failed series with locker room litmus worker X-Pac.

It was enough for Vince McMahon not only to reign 'Y2J's push in but to suggest his "contract wasn't worth the paper it was printed on". Like the Attitude Era itself, Jericho moved rapidly and with great force to remedy his early wrongs, but early proofs of the WrestleMania 2000 poster highlight the gulf in where he was due to be versus where he ended up.

A decade on from the disappointment, Jericho scooped up The Big Show from another failed singles push and made him a doubles destroyer as part of Jeri-Show. In 2000, 'The Big Nasty B*stard' was relegating the 'Millennium Man' to the midcard.