10 Wrestlers Who Foreshadowed Everything
5. Chris Jericho
The self-styled "Madonna of professional wrestling" shtick isn't just bluster from one of the industries biggest hype men. Chris Jericho hasn't been afraid of reinvention for better and worse during his legendary career, but one of his wisest ever moves might have been the one he made in the summer of 1999.
Things were far from rosy for 'Y2J' during his initial months in WWE, but the mere fact that he made it out of WCW before the entire company collapsed within itself did wonders for his aura and earmarked him as somebody who knew how to stay ahead of the curve.
Paul Wight's 1999 arrival in the organisation had been hit with similar political problems as the ones Jericho would eventually have to navigate, but little could have compared to the creative disillusion and financial panic of working for a World Championship Wrestling that had comfortably lost a wrestling war long before it completely ceased to be. Jericho loves to put himself over as one of the "last guys to do [insert thing] with [insert wrestler]" on his podcasts. But here, he was definitely one of the first.