7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Beast In The East

By Scott Carlson /

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7. C€™mon Baby!

If you grew up as a fan of WCW in the late 90s, then you probably have a soft spot for Chris Jericho, particularly his heel character that he perfected early in his WWF/E run. His mannerisms and little comments during the matches were entertaining, even though he was supposed to be a bad guy. Although he and Neville both played to the crowd as fan favorites, Jericho (who built a reputation in Japan before WCW) did let some of his old heel mannerisms come out, including yelling, €œAsk him!€ during a chinlock and busting out the arrogant cover of putting his foot on Neville€™s chest for a pin attempt. He also toyed with Neville a little after hitting a Codebreaker off a springboard. It all called back nicely to the old Jericho, not the calm, calculating heel that fans saw in recent years. Top all of that off with Jericho breaking out the original Liontamer for the submission win and you have a pretty nice callback to his more formative years.