How Chris Jericho Is Secretly Building Wrestling's Next Megastar
Le Champion and Le Protégé (that's French for Protege).
Look at the adjective: build.
It's important to note immediately that Chris Jericho isn't making Sammy Guevara a megastar because Sammy Guevara brought himself to the mainstream stage. This is closer to collaboration than "creating" and its dreaded connotations.
A new breed of professional wrestler, Guevara grasped the opportunities lurking everywhere within the digital world to hustle his way into prominence. He documented virtually every second of his grind, and he had evidence of the hustle to get bookings. And when he did, he impressed; as is the case with the majority of pro wrestlers in today's industry, he generated buzz with a strong showing at PWG's Battle of Los Angeles weekend. Guevara worked a pulsating, totally demented match with Joey Janela at 2017's tournament that almost stole the weekend from the more established, acclaimed and loaded field. He needed work, as all wrestlers of his experience level do, but he got here on his own.
It's important also to consider the difficulty in Guevara's task, should "megastar" read hyperbolic. He has to avoid being outclassed by Chris Jericho in career form - and think of the ground that covers. Jericho is phenomenal in 2020; your usual Twitter mutants forced him to delete the tweet stating as much, but as an all-rounder, that Jericho isn't the best in the world is difficult to argue.
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