Best in the World
By Scott Keith on 14 January 2018
Chris Jericho was a great wrestler when he first appeared back in the 90s and eventually created great characters/personalities throughout his career until his break in 2005. After returning in 2008 and reinvented himself and stil put out amazing matches/feuds with HBK, the legends at WM25, Mysterio, tagging with Big Show, Raw special guests, Edge, Punk, before taking another break with random appearances for a few years. Finally, after his 2016 run with the "List of Jericho" and his feuds with younger/newer wrestlers like AJ, Ambrose, Sami, Rollins, partnership with Owens to its culmination in early 2017. Now, Jericho proves that 47-years-old he can still hang with anyone in any style in any promotion when he wrestled Kenny Omega at Wrestle Kingdom 12. With always staying relevant by reinventing himself and even defeating opponents and not harming his oppenents status when they lose, my question: can Jericho be considered as just one of the greatest wrestlers ever (not counting merch sales of course), especially after still being able to work amazingly at his age compared to some others?
Well, he's already in the WON Hall of Fame, so he absolutely is in the conversation as one of the greatest of all time just to get that far. Given that he could have coasted on the nostalgia and autograph circuit for decades and instead chose to reinvent himself constantly, you have to admire him a lot.