Chris Jericho is a superstar in the wrestling industry. He is the king of the world Y2J (Yang Erjie). During his 27-year career, he has won numerous championship titles, including WWF/WWE, ECW, WCW and NJPW. He is the 7-time world champion, 3-time world heavyweight champion , 2-time WCW champion, WWE champion , and is the first AEW world champion, a triple-champ and a grand slam champion. His most famous death trick is the blacklist, and he is called the greatest living fossil in the wrestling industry. In addition to wrestling, Y2J is versatile, talented and charming. He is a writer, actor, artist, rock singer, band captain... His super high emotional intelligence and IQ make him feel like a fish in water in every field.
1. Wrestling star
Chris Jericho was born on November 9, 1970 in Manhattan, New York. His father was a former famous NHL hockey player and had played for the Boston Bears, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues. Irving is a Canadian of Scottish descent, and he also has an older sister who is a music teacher.
After his father retired, the family moved to Manitoba together with Wnipeg , where he grew up, his favorite superhero as a child was Aquaman, and when his father took him to watch the local АWА event, he became interested in professional wrestling, he had trained at the Hart Brothers Wrestling School and was trained by Ed Langley and Brad Young, many Canadian wrestlers came from Hart Training Camp.
Apart from wrestling, he did not give up his studies. He completed a creative communication course and graduated from Winnipeg Red River Community College.
On October 2, 1990, Jericho performed his wrestling debut at the Moos Hall in Bonoka, Alberta as "Cowboy" Chris Jericho.
In the first few years of his career, Jericho wrestled for the Canadian National Wrestling League (CNWA), Mexico's CMLL and Japan's Genichiro Tenryu, who won the NWA heavyweight championship and defended his title for 11 months.
In June 1996, Jericho won the ECW World TV Championship, and his outstanding performance attracted the attention of the WCW, making his WCW debut on August 26, 1996 after a brief job in Extreme Wrestling (ECW).
Over the next three years, he played many memorable matches, such as wrestling stars like Gauber , Dean Marlenko, Marty Giannetti and Booker T. He won the WCW lightweight championship a year later.
During this period, he also worked for New Japan Professional Wrestling (NJPW).
2. King of the World Y2J
In 1999, Jericho joined WWE, perhaps inspired by the computer virus "Millennium Worm". He named himself after Year 2000 Jericho, calling himself the king of the world, and the abbreviation is Y2J, which is the origin of the "Yang Erjie" that Chinese fans jokingly call it.
Y2J's debut defeated Chyna, a female wrestler known as the "Ninth Wonder of the World", and won the first gold belt of " Intercontinental Champion " after entering WWE.
Y2J's career highlight night was on the night of "Deadly Revenge 2001". He defeated Leng Shi and Bolu on the same night and became the WWE double champion, unifying the two major titles, which also made him the first truly unquestionable WWE champion in history.
3. The contract ladder competition founder
Y2J is talented and amazingly creative. He is the founder of the "Contract Ladder" competition. Over the years, he has worked with wrestling legend Shaun Michaels . In the 2008 No Mercy watch contract ladder competition, Y2J won the competition and retained his WWE heavyweight championship belt, with the storyline being selected as "Hate of the Year" and "Compet of the Year" by "Pro Wrestling Illustrated" and "Wrestling Observer Newsletter".
In 2001, Y2J challenged boxing champion Tyson, but was knocked down by boxing champion. Y2J's eyes swollen for a whole week.But you have to admit that being likable is a very important ability on the wrestling stage.
4. Blacklist of death tricks
"Life is like a play, all depends on acting skills". Although Y2J has many tricks, his most famous ending skills include: Jericho Great Wall, password cracking, Judas Elbow , etc. However, his strongest killer move is not password cracking, but his blacklist, "You just made the list!!!"
"You're done, you've already been on my blacklist!"
"Everyone will be written by me, are you ready to be on the blacklist?"
"Boy! You look pretty weird! Do you know what will happen if you look weird? You have been added to the death note of Yang Erjie!"
Y2J is the only person who dares to scold the audience as SB, and the audience is willing to cooperate with him to admit that he is SB. He is a wrestler with super popular, humorous and funny skills are not as good as Stephen Chow.
2009, due to his outstanding mouth-breaking skills, Y2J was named "The Best Wrestler of the Year" by WON.
5. The greatest living fossil in the wrestling world
Only a few wrestlers can successfully reshape the history of the company. Jericho can be regarded as one. A person over 50 years old is still fighting on the wrestling stage and can be regarded as a living fossil in the wrestling world.
June 9, 2018, Y2J won the IWGP Intercontinental Championship for the first time in NJPW!
On August 31, 2019, Y2J became AEW's first AEW world champion!
In Y2J's 27-year career, he has won numerous championship titles, including champions of WWF/WWE, ECW, WCW and NJPW, he is a 7-time world champion, 3 world heavyweight champion, 2 WCW champion, one WWE champion, and is the first AEW world champion. He also won the Tag Team Championship seven times, the World Tag Team Championship five times, and the WWE Tag Team Championship twice.
In addition, he has won the Intercontinental Championship nine times and has maintained the record of dominance of most Intercontinental titles, and he is also a Triple Crown and Grand Slam Champion. He was awarded three Slammy awards: Superstar of the Year (2008), Big Person of the Year (2009), and Extreme Moment of the Year (2014).
In 2010, Y2J was inducted into the "Wrestling Observer Newsletter" Hall of Fame.
6. Talented
Chris Jericho is versatile and charming. He is the co-founder of the heavy metal band Fozzy, who released their first studio album of the same name in 2000. Since then, the band has released a total of 6 studio albums and 2 video albums.
In 2006, Jericho was a writer. He made his debut on the stage and created the drama "Opening Night". He also collaborated with others to write 4 non-fiction books "The Story of the Lion: Spandex Travels the World", etc.
Jerico is an actor who has played various roles in movies such as "Android Apocalypse" (2006) and "Albino Farm" (2009).
Since December 2013, he has been hosting his podcast show "Talk is Jericho". On TV, he hosted the reality series "Redification League" (2008), "Fallen" (2010) and "Robot Fight League" (2013), and he also hosted the 2015 version of "WWE Hard Enough".
Although "Yang Erjie" is over 50 years old, her figure is no longer the same as before, and she is still tall and has a big belly, she still has no intention of retreating from the wrestling industry. Maybe he really loves the stage of wrestling. This is the feeling of finding the king of the world. It is a talented and charming living wrestling fossil that many wrestling fans like. Whenever you see him, you will feel like saying: "You just made the list!!!"
