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  • @5:12 painful kicks

  • Watching the Thunder clip with Malenko made me realize that Heenan probably should have managed Jericho during this push.

  • Jericho's huge WCW push happened on...Thunder??

  • Jericho is one bad mama jama!

  • Holy shit. I forgot all about the Lenny Lane under the mask match. Awesome!!!

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  • Jericho was so awesome in WCW. He should have never went to WWE. He never had the freedom in WWE that he had in WCW.

  • What're you doing here Larry?

  • @spfan125  Cause Jericho is the man.

  • Jericho = Amazing

  • I don't care what he says, Jericho's best stuff was in WCW circa 1998. End of story.

  • WCW didn't push Jericho, Jericho pushed himself. 3 hour Monday Nitro only worked because of wrestlers like Jericho, Benoit, Chavo and Eddy, Juvi, Rey, etc!

    Raw was beaten in the ratings because of these guys! The NWO simply got you to change the channel for the first time.

  • i hated wcw

  • God some of you people are ignorant. "Oh if WCW pushed (insert name here) they would still be around today". What crap. The company died because of the Turner - AOL merger, nothing more.

  • @1EyedTEZZA

    finally someone who understands... WCW tried to push new talent in it's end days like Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarret, Kanyon, Booker T and lots of others but the whole Turner - AOL merger and he finally sold it to the WWF.

  • @DanOpx To be fair the WCW ratings had dropped a fair old way as early as 1999. Obviously not pushing new talent didnt kill the company but it ended their days of being top dog. By the time they decided to use the talent at their disposal it was too late and they switched.

  • @dannya333

    The switch was a sad one. I understand that the ratings began to drop but when WWF in 96/97 had low ratings they kept on going. WCW should have been sold to Bischoff and we could of had something because wrestling now days sucks!

  • @DanOpx I couldnt agree more about the last point, seeing Jack Swagger as Champion just about switched me off. Back in these days with such ferocious competition you had guys in the mid card of both companies like Val Venis, Malenko Saturn etc who would be multiple champions if they peaked today. Now its just generic boring heels like Punk and Miz and the 'faces' have not changed in years Its stll Cena, HHH, Undertaker dominating when available

  • @dannya333

    ohh i agree, as a example....Steve Austin got his Title after 8 long years in Wrestling

    WCW, ECW and WWF now anyone can get it

  • @DanOpx Dude, all I can say is if you think eight years is a long time or a huge effort, then you quit too easy.

  • @AnotheroftheRabble

    Quitting is not something i said, what my example was that when WWF was good it toke some long long time till someone got a break as to now anyone getting it.

  • @DanOpx My point was eight years is not a long time in life no matter what the concept. In the majority of things yuo have to work a lot more than eight years to get to the absolute top. 

  • @AnotheroftheRabble

    Yes i agree with you, and to prove a point there are top superstars who have never won the main title in wrestling. When i see anyone now days winning, it just makes me sick.

  • @DanOpx agree 100%... isn't it sad we are stuck with so called 'champions' who are a totally waist of skin, like miz, corre, punk and zigg/vick... . its like watching boring old episodes of 'jackass' instead of wrestling.

    : $

  • @PlanetMother

    you couldn't have said it any better! Amen to that!

  • @PlanetMother The Miz is Awesome, Punk is amazing, Ziggler has potential, Vicki is a great heal

  • @superkahn it depends how you look at it and what you're used to

  • @superkahn the thing that keeps Dolph Ziggler from being anything beyond a joke to me is that name. Skilled guy, stupid name/gimmick.

  • lmao Jericho smashes Lenny Lanehis own impostor with the belt after hitting Dean lmaoo... always backstabbing the people who helped him..well least Lenny Lane over and over lmao

  • Jericho was the best wrestler in WCW

  • I think Lenny Lane was my favorite wcw wrestler.

  • Thanks super duper much from these uploads!!

  • I Miss long haired Chris Jericho

  • how much did jericho weigh as a cruiserwight in wcw and was cruiserweight limit below 220 pounds in wcw?

  • @genosynca That used to always baffle me back in the day...he was way bigger than all of them but still blended in with cruisersweights...MY FAV IN WCW AND BOOKER T

  • @FOR3FOWTY yeah same with benoit and malenko. they were like more technichal wrestlers rather than cruiserweights.

  • I like how THIS GUY helped put this shit company out of business!!

  • if only wcw would have given jericho a main event level push maybe wcw would still be around

    long live the master of a 1004 holds

    aaaaarmbarrrrr.....

  • @Illonaful got to remember who was calling the shots. Hogan and Nash wouldn't push anyone and the company ended up in the shitter.

  • Shiavone 3:20 - "have you ever 4 minutes of gaga over your life?" uhh yeah Tony, his name's Hollywood Hogan, and we heard it just about every week on Nitro for more then 2 years.

  • Lenny Lane looks like Jericho

  • never eeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvveeerrr

  • christian is way fuckin under used he used to suck between 2002 to 2004 but he kicks ass now and has a great fanbase. WTF wwe.

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  • jericho can 1003 more moves than cena

  • @yos1994

    jericho can 1004 more moves than hogan

  • Jericho is right on all counts.

  • jericho was awesome and funny now he have to see john cena making wierd noises and hearing the kids laughing

  • Loving that WCW Vest Jericho is wearing.

  • Very nice upload

  • This is still Jericho's best period of work to date.

  • 83% sure

  • Jericho was my reason to watch Nitro.

  • i love the lion tamer.

  • Lucky — I work at a boring computer job with internet access. I have literally been watching Jericho clips all week. Life is good.

  • This was Jericho in his prime when he was getting over with the crowd; he was more watered down as Y2J compared to his "Paragon of Virtue" nickname.

  • Does anyone else remember the time Jericho decided to read all of his 1004 holds on air? After saying Arm Bar 3 times in the first 3 min they went to commercial break. When they came back on air, he was at around hold 300 and he said Arm Bar. I laughed so hard. Chris Jericho will always be one of my all time favorites.

  • @pdk25 when he came out with a computer printout that was about 80 pages long?? CLASSIC!

  • @Clintbdee Yes, that was it. I found the video here on youtube with that scene. It was just so funny and I was so happy to watch that again. Jericho was probably the only real reason I watched WCW at this point of the company. He saved the show from the endless talk of NWO and Hogan.

  • @pdk25 hahaha yea lol :)

  • WWE made a huge steal when they picked up Y2J.

  • I miss the bearded and long-haired Jericho. Way better than the clean-shaven, short-haired, watered down version we have today. Not his fault, just the way they have written him these days.

  • @PhillCore2112 Actually he did shave his long hair right after he left WWE in 2005, so it is his "fault". But come on, the way he looks doesn't make him any worse. He's still the best.

  • @MinimiMax was referring to Jericho as a whole now, not just his absence of hair.

  • jericho deserved the wcw world heavyweight....him and the rest of the cruiserweights/luchadors never got a really big push when they should of...every nitro,thunder and ppv they put on a hell of a show,like the 6 man torando tag match wioth the high flyers

  • @shakysyxx Well would you perfer a 40 year old man running around with that much charisma?... when he did these rockstar gimicks, he was in his early 30s... John cena is 30 right now...with Jericho being almost 40 right now...The gimmick he has now suits him...i guess

  • WCW was a clusterfuck. Jericho got short shifted yea, but so did plenty of other talented people

  • lenny lane=chris jericho look alike

  • Huge push, yet he was wrestling on Thunder. Pfft..

  • jericho is the best !

  • JERICHO IS FUNNY!!!!!!! LMAO

  • DON'T BOO ME! DON'T YOU PEOPLE BOO ME!

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  • Who's mask ?

  • @DiamondCutter19 juvintude guerrera "air juvi" or however you spell it. he used to do the 450 slash for a finisher

  • Yo,Jericho,Jeff Hardy called,he wants his beard back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

  • @DiamondCutter19

    Yo 'tard Jericho had the beard before Hardy

  • Just think. WCW, if they'd had amyone smarter than a dickhead running things, could have possessed Stone Cold Steve Austin, Y2J Chris Jericho, the Radicalz, Triple H, and any Mick Foley incarnation you can think of. Obviously, WCW executives couldn't take a piss, let alone a big decision, and the "old boys' club" wouldn't allow it anyway, so none of that ever happened

  • JERICHO_SAVED.WWE

  • Gold, Jerry... Gold!!

  • jericho is one of the best heels ever.

  • @nonamebrand0 a hilarious heel

  • if the higher ups would have let jericho keep going with this gimmick, he could have very easily been top guy. this is one of the best gimmicks ever. jericho is funny.

  • malenko is such a scrub. Who the fuck uses their legs and whole body power to kick out of someone putting their foot on your chest?

  • i could watch these jericho clips all day long

  • @JMVEntertainment Agreed. And that's exactly what I'm doin today lol.

  • @Rayla840 +1. if i could give you +100 i would lol, i loved this guy why can't wrestling be like this now and forever and if they would add attirude era to this, it would be EPIC

  • @JMVEntertainment he was the only reason I watched WCW.

  • I like the title of this. He DID get a push in WCW. It wasn't a PPV main event push, but it was a signifigant push nontheless

  • @TheMac1229 I agree. It was his start as a star. If it wasn't for this, WWF wouldn't have ever been interested. That being said, this is as far as he woulda gone in WCW

  • Wow i just watched this like a month ago on WWE Classics on Demand, lol

  • Thunder was so crappy and the set was so cheap, but when I first watched it I was a kid so I didn't know how crappy WCW was.

  • Actually Chris Jericho is very smart. His in ring persona is what people don't like nowadays.

  • His mic skills are great!

  • and his in-ring skills too.

  • "Dont boo me!" "Dont you boo me!!!!".....LMAO.....Man Jehrico was a classic heel

    LONG LIVE THE LIONHEART!!!!!!!!!

  • 7:48 haha

  • LENNY LANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW MEMORIES!! I was just watching another video "sandman wcw debut" and saw VAN HAMMER!! HAHA ohh man MEMORIES!

  • When Lenny Lane came back a year or however ago for that very brief stint in WWE, I was praying Jericho would have brought up that he STILL doesn't have his Loverboy tape back

  • Jericho still wants his loverboy tape back Lenny Lane!

  • all the guys blame the companies they work on for not pushing them. Jericho got a tiny little window and pushed himself.

  • Its a shame Jericho never won the WHC in WCW, He would have been the perfect arrogant heel.

  • 1004 ! One of the funniest things ever to come out of a WCW interview. He is one of the best on the mic.

  • jeracho is awesome,hell,hes the paragon of virtue and also the aiotola of rock and rolla with a blackbelt in sensation ,and i would even say that he is indeed the prime minister of awesome !!!!!!!

  • haha so WWF just reused this nagle with the monday night jericho / raw is jericho

  • can someone please explain to me why wwe has brought back the most charismatic,mic skilled,entertaining,super-ove­r superstar of all time=chris jericho,and turned him into a moaning,whinnng,crybaby!!

    yet they rerun dx AGAIN and try time and time again to ram cena down our throats! jericho should be the top face in wwe but they make him even less entertaining than orton!! please all wwe fans explain why jericho isnt y2j anymore,and i dont mean stupid storyline crap,-i really miss wcw!!

  • they did the same thing to Christian by putting him on ECW

  • very true!! vince is an ass i pray he never gets his hands on sting!!!

  • He won't. Sting clearly said in a video he won't consider being WWE. After seeing how WWE treated ECW/WCW wrestlers, he's very against joining WWE. He doesn't have anything against WWE but he knows he won't be utilized as great as he is elsewhere. He knows it could damage his legacy, his career. He's remaining true to himself for the fans and by joining WWE, that would be compromised.

  • They made him a main eventer on a show as opposed to being lost in the shuffle of RAW or Smackdown...

  • If CM Punk and Jeff Hardy can be main eventers on Raw and Smackdown, Christian certainly can as well. I think Christian is a hugely under rated talent

  • @razoramon989 Accept that Hardy and Punk get title worthy crowd reactions.

  • @razoramon989 Christian is a mechanic and always will be. Nothing higher than IC title. He gives everyone a good match to make them looker better than they usually are. In the words of Lion Heart he will NEVER EVER go over. I like Christian so don't bash what I am saying. I am just stating facts.

  • @razoramon989 yea but CM PUNK has a normal looking body for his size and Jeff Hardy will always be over for young girls and doesnt take his shirt off too much... Maybe if christian wrestles with a shirt on or starts roiding up hard and loses that nasty tan he might be over....i think his body will keep him in the midcard

  • @razoramon989 one word, politics, thats why hes not a main eventer, he proved it in TNA, top heel for the longest time, so its obvious, politics

  • @razoramon989 Christian always has really good matches with people around his size. He just doesn't really wrestle well against larger opponents.

  • Jericho likes where he is now I don't think you will ever see him as a face for the rest of his career he said he wanted to be a heel and hes an amazing heel and if you pay attention you can still see Jeri-humor in his promos and what not.

  • jericho aka super lyger

  • wow Lenny Lane.....there is a guy I haven't thought about in 11 years lol, wonder where his career went

  • lol look him up, he's doing wrestling themed birthday parties and shit now

    lol

  • I believed it when I read it, but I had to google it to be 100% sure and now I am just sad...poor Lenny Lane!

  • NO WAY! I WANT HIM FOR MY BIRTHDAY!

  • really good in the ring and simply hilarious on the mic. jericho was pure entertainment

  • ARM BAR!

  • LOL LENNY LANE

  • Outsider I somewhat agree with you. It just wasn't Jericho's time in WCW to get pushed, when you had Goldberg, Sting vs. nWo, Nash & Hall, Jericho didn't fit in that picture. Not taking anything away from Jericho because we all saw his talent and exposure in WCW, just not the push due to wrong timing. BUT, what makes Jericho such a star, is his whacky charisma. I mean sure now he isn't, but from late days in WCW, to about 2004, He was hilarious. Mix that with his skill, and you get success.

  • 83% sure.... lol

  • i hope Jericho could ever eeeeeveeerr be like that again

  • chRIS is a great heal hes a really good favorite too but deff best and heal. i miss hen he had long hair and put it in stupid pony tails shit was classic. and when he use to talk and say againnnnn

  • Again, with internet geeks he might be......

    So were guys like Benoit & Malenko....thats says nothing.....

  • At one point, Jericho was the most over wrestler in the world, as a heel.

    Neither Rick or Curt can say that.

    Jericho had more drawing power, does he now? Hard to say, wrestling's on a decline and the 'E's roster is weak at best.

    Jericho's wrestling ability is up there with Rude and Hennig too, but I'll agree on one thing, Hennig and Rude are better stars than Jericho, but they don't fit the current mold of American wrestling, and thats why they both fizzled out after the early mid-nineties

  • Jericho has held more titles that ANYONE is history, outside of HHH....

    When i call him over rated, that is what i speak on.

  • Jericho was over rated...and honestly had WCW gave him a bigger push that would have been stupid.

    At the time the nWo and Sting and so fourth were getting a hell of a pop....

    They would have pushed which have failed and had people asking "what the ----"

    Lets get real for a minute.

  • Yes lets get real.I think you missed the pop Jericho was getting!Jerichoholic were all over the place!Bischoff admitted that!

    Jericho was overrated?Look what he did on his debut in WWE!He was a star!

  • He's a star with internet geeks like yourself....

    Whats sad is the fact that he is second only to Triple H as far as WWE title reigns.

    Over names like Austin, Hogan, Rock...

    Legends like Hennig & Rude have never held the world titie. Jericho couldnt hold they're jockstrap....

    Pointing out he is one of they're top stars doesnt help his agruement my friend.

    WWE right now is it its lowest point. Never been in such a sad state.

    Ironic isnt it?

  • No it isn't. WWE was way worse in 2005/2006.

  • I dont know, and i think may others, proven by lack of ratings and ticket sales prove just that.

    Orton, Batista, jericho, CMpunk, even now i see they have an MTV real world challenge reject...

    Not exactly main event, exciting names there.

    I'd rather see Undertake Vs austin for 200th time..lol Thats sad

  • Their*

    Also... Jericho is somewhat on par with Rude and Hennig.

    He was on top of the world the last part of the 90's and ever since

  • I always wondered which of Jericho or Lenny owed $50 to the other?

  • u people really really like me

  • Jericho is the best.

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  • Jericho rules

  • Lenny Lane proved later to be the future of this artistic profession, the profession of professional wrestling, lawls!

  • the true birth of y2j. HALL OF FAME!

  • Jericho likes taking luchador's masks.

  • You just dont see a series of videos dedicated entirely to one year of a wrestlers career. Jericho is a legend plain and simple, and Chris Jericho circa 1998 was the most entertaining performer in wrestling history. I cant thank you enough for posting these videos.

  • That's true, the only people who I've seen have a year + series done on them are Taker, Rock & Austin.

  • wcw pushed jericho-they never did they?-vinces doesnt think so does he and jericho says himself that he didnt receive a push in wcw-but he clearly did-he was cruserweight champ like 4 times!! wwe didnt put the world title on jericho till he was a heel!!

  • he was a television champ too!

  • jericho entered the wwe as a heel what are you talking about

  • yeah but he was midcard heel i meant maineventer heel after he beat austin and rock in one night-thats what im talking about!!

  • he was at midcrad and still feuding with guys like HHH...Just look what was he in WCW!

  • He never got push in terms of top level.He was never pushed against a top guy.He was buried.He was forced to job to top guys in few minutes!He got mic time but he was good on mic.He was entertaining and he would draw ratings but still didn't get pushed!

  • Jericho never drew ratings and still doesn't. You honestly think that Jericho should have been put above the nWo and Sting and Hogan and Flair? No fucking way.

  • he doesn't draw?He's the guy who appears on both Raw and SD.you know why?because he draws!He's best right now!

    He hasn't done drugs.He's most charismatic.Trained in old school way!HA,even for a midcard he had amazing fan following in WCW.People used to watch WCW for Jericho!

    His promos are classic!Funny, I just read an article showing how much he drew.That's was more than any other person!

    He never drew?..hmmm..then why was he first undisputed champion?dumb fuck!

  • Oh yeah he's such a huge draw, that's why WWE's ratings are at an all-time low right now, right?

    He had a cult following in WCW, and still does today. But he's never had a mainstream following, he's never been that marquee star like Hogan, Warrior, Stone Cold, Goldberg, The Rock, Mick Foley etc.

    The only reason why he was the first undisputed champion is because Austin and Rock were on their way out, and Triple H was injured.

  • Ratings depend on story lines.Most of WWE's storylines are dumb!They don't have new stars or fresh storyline.Jericho is the guy people tne in to watch the show!

    But even in this PG era,Jericho is only guy providing 5 star matches!

    He has huge fan following!I m in Pakistan and a Jerichoholic!

    Goldberg was shit!Warrior and Hogan drew but they suck coz of politics!Jericho is doesn't do politics or drugs and still is the best!

    Austin left coz of NWO!Rock also had problems!Jericho deserved it!

  • Goldberg was fucking awesome, Warrior and Hogan could play all the politics they like because they actually made money. Jericho was just a whiney little bitch who looked so fucking gay.

    Austin didn't leave because of the nWo. He was burnt out way before the nWo came in. Rock never had problems with them.

    Jericho is just fucking lame, full stop.

  • Goldberg was awesome?hmm..that's like saying Batista can wrestle..lol.guy got served in WWE.that idiot was overrated!Jericho beat his ass twice in real life!

    Hogan and Warrior made money,no doubt.But they were pain in ass!Look how he left WCW?Watch Hogan interview in 2002(Off The Record) and even he said that Jericho was the best thing then!

    Austin left coz of nWo!Watch off the record interviews!

    Jericho is gay?it takes on to know one!

    Jericho is lame?apparently, it doesn't seem like that!

  • What are you, fucking 12 years old?

  • fact that I just countered what ever shit u had to say makes me 12 years old?hmm..pretty sad!

    nWo buried talent!They messed up things.Jericho was always a star!

  • You countered it with WWE-fed dribble.

    The nWo made professional wrestling what it is today. Without the nWo, WWE would most likely still be some shitty kids cartoon attraction. Oh wait, that's what it is right now, and the nWo are nowhere to be seen. Coincidence?

  • I countered it with facts and what ever happened!

    You praised Hogan and Warrior but even they were meant for KIDS.That's how they got mainstream attention!

    nWo is still there.They are known as MEM!Look what they have done to

    TNA!..lol

  • I didn't know Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe and Booker T were in the nWo! The ORIGINAL nWo I mean. That shitty WWE remake doesn't count at all.

    Just because Kevin Nash is involved with something, doesn't make it an nWo ripoff.

    Speaking of nWo ripoffs, I bet you're a huuuuge DX fan, right? Triple H and Shawn Michaels played just as much politics as Hogan and Warrior did.

    Hollywood Hogan wasn't meant for kids, by the way.

  • U have Scott Steiner...u had Scott Hall...Sting.

    Vince Russo is the writer as well...lol

    I m not DX fan.I like what nWo did and I liked what DX did.But I m not a fan!

    I don't like HHH either just because of his politics and stuff but like I said,Vince still is final authority.

    Hogan became popular as Hulk Hogan and that was aimed at kids.That's how he got mainstream attention!

    Hollywood Hogan,his heel turn was classic.I must admit that.

    We are giving this video too many comments..lol

  • Scott Hall was never in the Main Event Mafia. You should really pay more attention.

    Just because 3 former nWo guys are in a stable, doesn't make it an nWo ripoff. The nWo never wore suits for one thing, and they weren't all former World Champions.

  • my bad,but Scott Hall was still part of TNA.

    Paying attention to WCW rip off TNA?No chance in hell!

    Victory Road just showed how worse they really are!

    All the stuff that MEM is doing is what nWo did and burying talent is one them!

    Nash going over AJ?Wow!

  • AJ can't go over all the time. You have to consider logic (seeing as Nash dwarfs AJ), and you also need to build up the heels for the faces to get more over. But I agree, the MEM has been dominating for too long. That's not their fault though, it's Jarrett and Carter's shitty booking (most of it actually isn't Russo).

    To be fair though, WWE is doing the same. Triple H is still keeping guys down. He wouldn't even do the job for Orton at Wrestlemania. Both companies fucking suck, ROH rules but.

  • AJ can't go over all the time?How many times has he gone over?Nash should retire!He's fat,slow and sucks!That pole matches or whatever has got Vince Russo written all over it!

    Yup HHH does held talent down which is sad!But SD is what you should be watching.Guys like Punk,Jericho,etc are really making it awesome!

    ROH,I haven't watched much of it.But I m fan of Bryan Danielson!

  • Nash is actually in the best shape of his life according to him, and for a guy who's almost 50, he's in great shape. He is limited, he's always been limited, but he knows it and can work around it and usually hide his weaknesses. His matches with AJ, Joe and also his match with Jarrett back at Against All Odds 2005 were very entertaining. Not 5 star classics but they did their job.

    I don't mind Smackdown, it's my least hated WWE show.

    ROH is badass, you definitely should check it out. Download

  • But see thats what seperates guys like Nash from some of these others...

    I'm not gonna say any names....but some of these pansies break a finger, get a toothache and wanna sit out for months.

    All respect to Austin, i've seen people with injuries twice as bad and still got they're ass out there in the ring.

  • You should name names, not many people can finish a match with a broken neck or a torn quad. Also keep in mind the neck surgeries that Angle or Edge for example got weren't as well known back in 1997. I don't count Triple H because he's done nothing prior to wrestling other than inject steroids into his eyeballs. Nash has had knee problems dating back to his basketball days, that's why he's so "slow". He still does his job fine though.