Back to mundane for Jericho
Chris Jericho is one of my favorite “mic men” in the WWE. He can cut devastating promos, but is seldom well-utilized by the WWE. After a hiatus of a couple years, when it was announced that Chris would be returning to the WWE, I was hoping the absence would mean that he’d returned to become a more integral member of the Raw roster, but after an all-too-swift and minor program against WWE Champ Randy Orton, Jericho was quickly shuffled off to the second-tier of Raw superstars and, last week on Raw, was reduced to jobbing to the Big Show to advance a storyline he wasn’t even involved in, the Big Show-Mayweather clash at WrestleMania.
Seems like Y2J’s absence hasn’t resulted in better booking, despite the hype surrounding his return; at this point, Jericho would be far better off on SmackDown where he could almost immediately become a big enough draw to be the top challenger to Edge’s title, rather than continue to be lost in the shuffle on Raw, which has too many top names to accommodate them all. Sure, I didn’t expect WWE to dedicate a wall of engraved plaques to Jericho’s honor upon his return, but I was hoping he’d receive better treatment than he has thus far.
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