10 Wrestlers Who Hated Working For WCW
2. Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho became a deliciously detestable heel in WCW by 1998, so much so that he began an attempt to exit the low-ceilinged cruiserweight division bu challenging the company's top star and World Champion Bill Goldberg.
Taking (in hindsight, bad) advice, Goldberg noped the sh*t out of a lot of hard work by Jericho, because he didn't "do comedy". Jericho's shorter stature probably didn't help at the time either. Numerous p*ss-funny vignettes were blown off with a single, brutal spear instead of at least one major match that probably could have drawn a rating or a pay-per-view buyrate.
Wrestling's odd like that - performers are often deemed unworthy of a spot for a variety of reasons, but it's often only by being granted that spot that they can confirm if their critics have it right or not. These were all battles 'Y2J' would have when he acrimoniously left WCW for WWE in 1999, but he never once doubted his right destination.
In various DVD documentaries/burial projects, Jericho compared leaving one for the other to living life in colour instead of black and white. Damning criticism considering which of the two sides devised Oz.