Michaels vs Jericho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1z_XmMF5b8

There is something really wrong about describing yourself as "edgemadfan2008" out loud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uq_O8fHW4k

The follow-up promo - I think this is the most credible Jericho has seem in his whole career, a legitimate top guy, capable of convincingly beat main eventers. At this point, I don't think that the blow-off feud will be Summerslam - in fact, I'd even have HBK skip the PPV to sell the beating. Prolonged one-sided taunting has worked for Austin in his initial feud with Bret Hart; I can see this feud continuing for a long time.

dude's on fire

Highlight's from Jericho's book, A Lion's Tale:

1. Goldberg was really, really angry at Jericho over the Greenberg/Dwarfberg stuff on Nitro, and would just do his intense grin face and repeatedly say "I hope it was worth it, Jericho" when Jericho tried to explain that he was being told to do that by the booking team, who were in charge of what happened on the shows.

2. Ralphus got too big for his boots, and Jericho eventually got rid of him for being disruptive at ringside and letting loads of his female fans into the locker room (possibly a lie).

3. Jericho once received a recorded delivery FedEx package from WCW containing nothing.

4. Jericho and Lance Storm both worked as bouncers at a nightclub at one point, where all the bouncers had vaguely exotic nicknames like "Fuji" and "Chang" to reflect their personalities. Lance Storm's nickname was "Lance".

Not big into wrestling books, but heard nothing but great stuff about Jericho's book. Highlight #4 above might push me over.

It stops at his WWF debut, so if you're particularly after post-1999 dirt* you might want to hold off for the next one, otherwise it's pretty good

*obviously there is not a huge amount of actual dirt, but apparently Balls Mahoney used to eat sandwiches in bed and stuff the crusts under the mattress, until the point where the entire underside of his bed was swarming with roaches

the last highlight reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1quR9aPnbR4

he's untouchable at this point

In his book and something else I read recently CJ says he thinks heels should always be cowardly and pathetic, and that he thinks the idea of the "cool heel" is a cop out for dudes like the NwO, who were too up themselves to not always give themselves the verbal upper hand even though they were supposed to be the bad guys

Not really sure how that squares with the fact that a) Jericho's recent promos have been pretty close to being the voice of reason and b) he generally made his name in the US by being "cool", in that he was so funny ("NUMBER EIGHT: ARMBARRR. NUMBER NINE: MUHRMNNGH. NUMBER NINE: ARRRM BARRRR") the fact that he was making himself look absurd at the same time either didn't matter or actually helped

^haven't watched that YT yet so this may contradict what I've said

Jericho was funny but in a really goofy, uncool way what with Ralphus and those 1004 moves ("Moss Covered Three Handled Family Grudunzle!"). A slight difference from Big Kev spray painting like a 16-year-old (OK, so that was never cool or amusing) or HBK putting a banana in his shorts.

Anyway, that promo was him renouncing being the wacky "cool" prankster that made jokes about Mrs. HHH's breasts and was fucking brillance.

Chris Jericho is now YOUR World Champion and a big hello to HHH, whom I believe was mocking Jericho's return to the squared circle just a few months ago.