7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Roadblock

6. Canada Sucks

It€™s a difficult task to pit a Canadian crowd against a bona fide Canadian legend, but that€™s exactly what Chris Jericho did in a matter of minutes at Roadblock.

Having just turned heel a few days early, Jericho couldn€™t afford to walk out in Toronto and be cheered, but the fans immediately rushed to his side, chanting, €œY2J!€ as he entered the ring. Jericho quickly told them to shut their €œfilthy mouths,€ that the fans had their chance to cheer him for months but instead chanted for AJ Styles. He also called himself the greatest icon in Canadian wrestling €“ better than Bret Hart €“ and said he was ashamed to be Canadian.

Was it a bit extreme to go for every attack line he could think of against his home country? Maybe, but Y2J also had to make sure fans didn€™t cheer him five days after he turned heel. Calling Toronto the €œanus€ of Canada pretty much ensured that.

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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.