10 WWE Wrestlers Who Were Too Entertaining For Their Own Good
6. Chris Jericho
Before "Le Champion", there was "Le Midcarder".
Chris Jericho's initial WWE run (from 1999 to 2005) was a weird one. Despite being the first ever Undisputed Champion in WWE, Jericho was never seen as a top guy. His feud with Triple H in the run-up to WrestleMania X8 turned him into Stephanie McMahon's whipping boy, and after Triple H beat him again in the rematch Y2J's run at the top of the card was over.
As Jericho noted in his second autobiography, WWE's head brass viewed him as "a hell of a hand", i.e. a worker who could be relied on to pop the crowd and give them a good match or promo, but not someone the company saw as main event material.
Unfortunately for Y2J he was so damn good in the midcard scene that WWE decided to keep him there, with Jericho racking up seven InterContinental title reigns before walking away from the company in 2005.
As anyone who's ever worked an office job will tell you, good work is rarely rewarded - it usually just means you get given more work. (Something Cesaro fans are all to familiar with...)