10 Wrestlers Who Hated Their Big Moments
10. Chris Jericho - WrestleMania X8
Simply put, there wasn't a match within WWE that could have possibly followed the lightning in a bottle that was Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock at WrestleMania X8. The Icon vs. Icon epic was a once-in-a-generation showdown that whipped the audience into that much of a frenzy, the rest of the night was only ever going to go in one direction if it didn't main event: Down.
Sure enough, Chris Jericho and Triple H's subsequent clash over the Undisputed WWE Championship felt like a bit of a letdown after such a euphoric prior experience. Sensing this was always going to be the case going in, Jericho admitted to lobbying for Rock vs. Hogan to go on last, but his opponent felt the world title should close the show.
In the end, the air being sucked out of the building in the wake of such an instant classic left the pair with too much to do in the main event, with Y2J later confessing that he felt the build-up, the match positioning, and the encounter itself "wasn’t great". But, as he puts it, "I can say I was in the main event of WrestleMania, so, there you go.”