7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Roadblock

4. A Weird Dynamic

Chris Jericho€™s heel promo before his match was solid, as he successfully managed to turn a Canadian crowd against him by denouncing his association with the country and calling its residents slow.

But his Canada bashing put the match in a strange predicament, as his opponent was the Real American, Jack Swagger. So you have a Canadian heel who hates Canada and moved out of the country, and an America-loving babyface from Oklahoma. Who does the Toronto crowd cheer?

It produced some silence and apathy, with a €œCM Punk€ chant breaking out at one point, and certainly didn€™t have the energy you€™d expect for a Y2J match in Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_V4l5uaHS0

Perhaps if Jericho faced a Canadian babyface like Sami Zayn or someone such as Neville or Goldust, we would have seen a better reaction. Instead, it was just flat.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.