10 Wrestlers You Didn’t Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1999
2. Tony Chimel
After WWE remarkably paid off a years-long feud between ring announcer Howard Finkel and Harvey Wippleman with a Tuxedo Match on a 1995 episode of Monday Night Raw, 'The Fink' looked free from any future physical involvement, but during the Attitude Era, just about everybody got to play wrestler.
Having crotch-chopped alongside X-Pac at SummerSlam '98, Finkel was back amongst the action in 1999, when he was inexplicably paired with Chris Jericho just weeks after 'Y2J' had landed in the company following his high-profile exit from WCW.
A buffoon in the vein of Ralphus, Fink was given numerous demeaning tasks as Jericho's ill-fitting run-in buddy, including soiling himself whilst playing human shield for the 'Millennium Man' against Ken Shamrock as well as dressing up as the newcomer to provide further distraction for the 'World's Most Dangerous Man'.
It was during their short-lived alliance that Jericho fired the naive emcee up about his (real) reduced on-screen role for the company. Rushing to he ring on the maiden edition of SmackDown to the Ultimate Warrior's theme, Finkel floored announcer Tony Chimel with an unprovoked attack, leading to the pair engaging in a criminally poor Tuxedo Match the following week.
Whilst Jericho giggled backstage at the trouble he'd caused, Chimel stripped Howard nearly naked as Jerry Lawler squealed about 'The Fink's red underpants.