10 Shots WWE Fired At Wrestlers (That You Didn't Notice)
8. The Ultimate Ring Announcer
Another case of a barely-remembered angle, this particular stab fell on the deafest ears too. Earlier that year, Raw crowds went wild for Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco using Hulk Hogan's entrance music to both put themselves over and age 'The Hulkster' by a few decades, but much like with WWE's main event scene in 1990, a second run at the same idea lacked all of the original's punch.
Chris Jericho's initial run in WWE was plagued with half-baked callbacks to his WCW run and matches so average that Vince McMahon was eventually moved to tell him outright what a waste of money he'd been. All of this, despite the creative direction of being saddled with a heel-turned Howard Finkel as a Ralphus-lite looking to get his ring announcing job back on Friday Nights.
Chris Jericho called 'The Fink' a "Y2J Warrior" before he raced to the ring to attack Tony Chimel with all the rope-shaking gesticulations of the former WWE Champion, but the 1999 frat bro crowd had hardly any love for the original, let alone this pathetic parody.