That Time Chris Jericho Trolled Wrestling

It's at around the seven minute that the first boos in the arena can be heard from the first folk that realise that there's been no babyface turn at all. Chris Jericho is getting f*cking weird, and whether they want to be or not, the audience are there for it. "Trending Worldwide: #Y2J" flashed up on the screen as Jericho got the crowd again with the old "which side is louder?" game.

We were watching a master of his craft. Only, it was suddenly hard to see what the craft was, and we could only watch because he'd just dropped the microphone.

Long before he had his List, or embraced the grandiosity of himself as 'LeChampion', he found himself achieving everything by effectively doing nothing. He was experimenting with a hinterland version of the gimmick that steered neither into nor away from everything that had come before.

Come to think of it, what the f*ck was that kid in the school all about then? How was the world about to end if this now-unreliable soothsaying narrator didn't even have a voice? Some fans cheered, still, as Jericho walked back up the ramp, waving and smiling as he went, now 10 minutes deep into a segment that had featured nothing but more of this. To explain it is to embody Ricky Gervais' David Brent offering up the appraisal options to listless colleague Big Keith - absolutely nothing was happening, and it was always the same.

Yet clearly it wasn't. This was different from any return or promo ever before. Of course it was - it wasn't even a promo. Fans would have to wait three more weeks for that.

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