10 Wrestlers Who Were Hated By The Locker Room

1. Chris Jericho

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Chris Jericho got it half-right upon debuting for the WWF in 1999.

He knew he was an incredibly entertaining and creative man who had the potential to star at the top. Every "insider" wrestling fan was besotted with the man and his inspired composite of everything the dialled-in crowd wanted out of the Attitude Era. Reduced, Jericho was a WWF headliner with WCW undercard "workrate".

After a few months, he was neither until he realised his potential with a mini-programme opposite Triple H in 2000.

Jericho's strategy wasn't quite catch-all; his "save us" spiels pissed off the locker rook because he explicitly called them all boring c*nts. They didn't get the deluded heel blowhard element of the bit - Jericho bemoaned bad ratings during the height of the company's popularity on cable television - and worked themselves into a shoot.

Jericho pissed off the most powerful men around him, and struggled to adjust throughout several months of sloppy performances.

He was of course correct about The Undertaker and the Big Show's terrible tag team, but he shouldn't have said it.

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