10 Times Wrestling Fans Booed The Good Guys
7. The Jericho Curse Strikes In WCW.
The Jericho Curse is Chris Jericho's explanation for the fact that, every time he moves to a new wrestling promotion, he is always struck by disaster in the first month. Case in point - his very first match in WCW.
The match was designed to get Jericho over as a classic vanilla babyface. The conclusion saw Jericho's opponent knock himself loopy against the guard rail and, rather than take the easy victory, Jericho went outside the ring to comfort his fallen adversary and end the match in a double count-out.
The crowd hated this. Through no fault of his own, Jericho found himself a man out of time. As Jericho pointed out in his first autobiography, this was August 1996 - two months after Austin's game-changing King of the Ring victory and right in the middle of ECW's rise to prominence. Fans didn't want pretty-boy babyfaces, they wanted beer-chugging, middle-finger waving badasses like Austin and the Sandman.
The Jericho curse would reappear in WWE (which culminated in an epic dressing down from Vince McMahon) and AEW (having his title stolen from his car), but Jericho managed to ride his bad luck and carve out one of the greatest careers in wrestling history.
Not bad for a wrestler Vince McMahon said he was "sold a bill of goods" on.