Chris Jericho is one of the longest-tenured wrestlers going today with a top spot in AEW. The near three decades in wrestling for Jericho has seen having memorable moments for WWE, WCW, AEW, ECW, NJPW, AAA and many other respected promotions. Jericho merged his colorful personality with his in-ring skills for an all-time great career.
Anyone to stick around that long at a high level is bound to end up in more than a few strange scenarios. Jericho clearly found his way into that scenario with both his own doing and the booking given to him. Weird doesn't always mean bad as Jericho did his best with the stranger moments from his wrestling career.
10 Fozzy Performance With Ric Flair Attack
Chris Jericho used his WWE run to elevate his musical dreams with Fozzy. The crossover would see Fozzy making a few appearances on WWE television, including a live concert performance on Monday Night Raw in 2002.
There was a personal feud between Ric Flair and Jericho, which led to Flair attacking the lead singer at the end of the performance. WWE gave Jericho a big platform for his band in the early stages, but it had to have a strange ending for the company to benefit.
9 JBL Ruining His Title Match Vs Randy Orton
The 2007 return of Chris Jericho to WWE felt like a major moment after months of mysterious videos. Jericho confronted WWE Champion Randy Orton and instantly found his way into the top program on the show.
The big match ended up being a bust when it ended with JBL attacking Jericho. WWE had moved JBL to commentary a few months prior and he took offense to Jericho unintentionally running into him. The match ending with JBL getting involved just felt strange given the importance involved, and it ruined Jericho’s face run.
8 Super Liger In NJPW
Chris Jericho loved his time working in Japan, especially when NJPW booked him as the country’s top promotion. Jushin Liger was among the most popular characters at time, and it influenced Jericho getting the gimmick of Super Liger.
Jericho tried to make the gimmick work, but it was just a mess from the silly design of his costume to the difficulty working under a mask. The character was not well-received and ended after a few appearances as a rare Jericho failure.
7 Mr. Hughes As His Enforcer
The first few months of Chris Jericho’s WWE run are forgotten today when it comes to his disappointments. Everyone loved the debut of Jericho, but WWE lost faith in him after a few weeks.
One of the changes made to give Jericho something new featured older wrestler Mr. Hughes coming back to the company. Hughes accompanied Jericho for matches or tagged with him, but WWE realized it didn’t work after a few weeks. The odd duo wasn’t meant to be as WWE had Jericho ditch Hughes for Howard Finkel as his backup.
6 Bray Wyatt Hacking His Podcast
Chris Jericho starting his own podcast led to him having guests from his WWE feuds. Bray Wyatt and Jericho working together led to a strange instance of Jericho trying to add excitement and reality to their matches.
The supernatural gimmick of Wyatt led to him hacking his way into Jericho’s podcast open and threatening him. Jericho hoped fans would believe this was a real issue, but it just came off hokey and downright odd to add little to their match.
5 Mickey Rourke Knocking Him Out
The original WWE plan for WrestleMania XXV was to have Chris Jericho wrestle a singles match with actor Mickey Rourke. WWE wanted to benefit from the success of The Wrestler film, but Rourke backed out of his verbal agreement ahead of the show.
The plans changed for Jericho to face a trio of over the hill wrestlers instead of Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snuka and Ricky Steamboat. WWE talked Rourke into making a post-match appearance knocking out Jericho, but it just came off as a forced celebrity moment with little payoff.
4 Becoming Stephanie McMahon's Lackey
Chris Jericho started to become a major top face during his feud with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. That made it stranger when Stephanie aligned with him as her representative in a feud against Triple H during WrestleMania 18 season.
Jericho wanted to have it revealed that Stephanie cheated on Triple H with him to add more heat to the program. WWE instead booked strange segments of Stephanie bossing Jericho around and treating him like a loser despite holding the top title in the company.
3 Bob Backlund Attacking Him Backstage
WWE utilized Bob Backlund in a few different roles throughout the later years of his career. Backlund was a character for a short time in late 1999 and early 2000 trying to align with Kurt Angle against the rookie wrestler’s enemies.
WWE strangely booked a segment of Backlund attacking Jericho backstage as a way to endear himself to Angle. It made little sense to have Jericho look weak against an older veteran who could no longer wrestle at a high level.
2 Impersonating Doink The Clown
One of the funniest instances of a weird moment for Chris Jericho featured him impersonating Doink the Clown. The feud between Jericho and William Regal grew personal when the latter was attempting to abuse his power as WWE Commissioner.
WWE booked a fun segment of Doink the Clown attacking Regal after one of his matches. The reveal played out when Doink used the Walls of Jericho finisher. Fans erupted when Jericho took the wig off to confirm it was him getting one over on Regal.
1 Making Fans Think He Was Heading To TNA
The approach to wrestling for Chris Jericho featured him wanting to always keep fans guessing about his future. Jericho leaving WWE in 2005 started to create speculation that he could end in TNA since they badly wanted him.
TNA used Fozzy’s song “Enemy” to hype one of their major PPVs with Jericho adding more rumors to the mix. Jericho added a photo to his website of the TNA logo with Jericho’s silhouette pose in the background. The humor of Jericho to troll the fans just added confusion and false hopes that never played out.