10 Most Outstanding Career Revivals In WWE

When Chris Jericho scored a pinfall victory over AJ Styles at WrestleMania 32, fans were infuriated. Why put a performer past his prime over WWE’s brightest new star, on the biggest show of the year? Many felt that Jericho might have overstayed his welcome during his latest holiday from being a rock star.

How wrong can you be? Abandoning his trademark light-up jacket in favour of allegedly expensive dad-rock wear for his feud with Dean Ambrose, Jericho went Jon Bon Jovi, accentuating the look with the scarves that Vince McMahon believes are the ultimate in heelwear.

The increasingly childish and narcissistic Jericho began calling everyone he met “stupid idiots”, putting their names on a List while demanding that everybody “drink in the Gift Of Jericho.” Presenting himself as a delusional man-child desperate for applause and obsessed with petty revenge was the cake: the icing came in WWE’s pairing the man with Kevin Owens.

The two chewed the scenery in every segment, Jericho hamming it up gloriously as the goober tragically unaware that his best friend was a sociopath with a short fuse. That led to one of the greatest moments on WWE TV this year, when Owens finally turned on Jericho to give us the WrestleMania match we’d all been looking forward to.

For the last year, Chris Jericho has been one of the most entertaining figures in wrestling, and clearly having the time of his life. The heel’s heel was back, once again finding a way to reinvent himself for a new era.