Ranking What Was Really The Best Wrestling Attire Every Year 1990-2021

14. 2008 - Chris Jericho

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Chris Jericho's 2007 return didn't land.

Pro wrestling's master of the new studio album had returned to play the Greatest Hits, and it was fun for about a week before your da lost the CD in the glove compartment and wasn't particularly bothered about finding it.

He sensed this too, and turned heel in 2008. In doing so, he deprived the fandom of the rock star Y2J character as spiteful, super-effective revenge. The wailing catchphrases were gone; in their place, a slow, condescending, verbose new promo style. He cut his hair. He was a more serious man now.

And he completed the reinvention by dropping the long tights synonymous, at the time, with emerging midcard acts of the Attitude Era: he wore the trunks of the classic grappler because he was there to save nobody but himself.

 
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