10 Popular WWE Babyfaces Who Went To Another Level As Heels
6. Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho doesn't like standing still.
It would've been easy for 'Y2J' to ride the outspoken babyface train for as long as possible when he returned to WWE in 2007. That, realistically, was never going to happen given his insatiable lust for a good repackaging. By 2008, Jericho fancied doing something fresh.
He was slightly sinking as a nostalgia-heavy, wise-cracking Gordon Ramsay in tights anyway. When WWE laid a feud with Shawn Michaels on his doorstep, the Canadian burst through it with predictable vigour and reimagined himself as a stuffy, stoic and suit-wearing heel who carried himself like Nick Bockwinkel in his prime.
Few were better at the heel gig than Jericho by late-2008. The Michaels epics aside, he could command an audience's attention without saying one word. That's talent, and it elevated someone who had achieved so much to an even higher level.
Suit-wearing heel Jericho was one of his best incarnations ever.