10 Most Creative Wrestlers On The Planet Right Now
1. Chris Jericho
Le Champion reigns suprême.
That's French for supreme.
This isn't a hot take; Jericho has redefined creativity in his own kaleidoscopic image over the span of his career, and it's even more impressive for how exposed he was for nearly a quarter of a century on national television. He remains creative on a deeply intelligent level.
You have to listen to the notes he's not playing.
Jericho right now is not playing the sh*t-kicking Painkiller ready to lead the Inner Circle into Blood and Guts because the tone isn't right. A match like that needs a rabid, bloodthirsty crowd to get it over as the ultimate grudge war.
Jericho is so creative that he's postponing his studio album for a better time, and has adjusted to this heightened reality with some delightfully zany, experimental B-sides. It's hard to receive wrestling on the old wavelength, so he has altered the frequency with absurd comedy riffs, mini-feuds with inanimate objects, socially distant skits, and an embrace of DDT-style mayhem.
And mastery, since he put a traffic cone on his damn head and pretended it was a witch's hat, popping t*its off torsos the world over.