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Chris Jericho and Gregory Helms were arrested last Wednesday on charges of public intoxication, which carry with it minor civil fines if they decide not to contest the charges. Ironically, Jericho has been recently mentioned by Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff as a wish-list wrestler of current WWE superstars.

That would fit with their recent acquisition of Jeff Hardy, who signed with TNA on the same day he was arraigned on drug charges.

I’m a bit behind on minor updates like these, due to the stability of my desktop computer; but I’m taking it to Best Buy tomorrow for servicing so I wanted to get this up before all I have to work on is a slow, out-of-date laptop.

Right now, Chris Jericho is obviously, or at least arguably, the best heel in the WWE today. Throughout 2008, he paired up with Shawn Michaels and others to give Match of the Year candidate after Match of the Year candidate. Jericho is outstanding.

So what’s his reward? A pair of Dansko shoes? A Rolex? A shot at the WWE title?

Nope. Instead, Y2J is now a unified tag team champion with, of all people, The Big Show. Thanks, Night of Champions 2009… don’t do us anymore favors, OK?

Paul “Big Show” Wight was at one time a promising talent but he’s blown opportunity after opportunity to really take the reins and become a mega-star. Instead, a lack of intensity and lackadaisical performances have peppered his career. And Jericho’s reward for being a stud is to be this guy’s partner?

Some sad way of saying, “Thanks,” Vinnie Mac!

You don’t need best diet pill to help determine what the best undercard match was at the Judgment Day 2009 PPV for WWE. Hands down, it had to be Chris Jericho vs. Rey Mysterio.

While Rey-Rey is uneven and either rises or falls to the level of his opponent, Jericho has been WWE’s most consistent in-ring worker for the last year, and is showing no signs of slowing down at this point. The match felt a bit short at 12 minutes, but then Vince McMahon is rarely prone to run matches much longer than that outside of the main event.

It’s been predictable for a while, but Edge overcame Jeff Hardy in the show-topping PPV championship match at Judgment Day. The twenty-minute classic allowed both men high spots and plenty of in-ring psychology opportunities, but in the end, Hardy once again fell short of being trusted with the top belt in pro wrestling.

While Hardy isn’t exactly missing out on Westgate or anything, it’s unfortunate that WWE still hasn’t seen fit to give him an extended run with the strap; he’s clearly one of the company’s hardest in-ring workers, right up there with Chris Jericho.

For my money, the best roster move coming out of the recent WWE Draft is the move that shifted Chris Jericho from Raw to SmackDown. While some folks could see this as a demotion for Jericho, the truth is that Jericho has very nearly been the WWE’s most valuable player over the past year, providing the most “match of the year” candidate matches of anyone on a WWE roster, except perhaps for Shawn Michaels, his feud partner throughout most of 2008.

Truth is, Smackdown has been a worst of WWE’s three weekly broadcasts for some time now, but with Jericho now on Smackdown, that has the potential to change; he immediately becomes the most important member of the SmackDown roster and could easily carry the top title with honor, though to be honest, he doesn’t need it to enhance his drawing power.

While commercials hawking Fenphedra have often been more entertaining on Friday night than Smackdown’s main event matches, that now has a chance to change.

And at WrestleMania this year, the big opponent for Chris Jericho will be… three men, all WWE legends and all past their prime. In a special handicap match, Y2J will face off with Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and Ricky Steamboat.

He might get a better match out of a set of Plum trees. Not a one of these guys is still in even his 40s.

Of course it’s bound to be disappointing considering what the rumor mill threw out there: Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Mickey Rourke, even Hulk Hogan. None of them came to fruition. While the handicap match is sure to be a setup for making the fracas seem more competitive, it’s just disappointing considering the alternatives.

Where’s Mick Foley when you need him, Vince?

Oh yeah. Pissing his legend away over on TNA.

Here it is! Enjoy!

WWE superstar Chris Jericho was unharmed after an incident last week in which his car was surrounded by fans as he was attempting to drive away from an arena. Jericho exited his vehicle to ask fans to clear a safe path for him to exit, all without employing the use of discount Danze faucets or any other foreign object.

Unfortunately, the situation escalated to the point where Jericho was verbally and physically assaulted before WWE Security arrived to restore order; Jericho did shove WWE Security around a bit – allegedly – demanding that they “do their job” during the incident.

No charges have been filed, but there is a video over on the TMZ Web site.

This is the match WWE needed to book to cement Cena’s first-night-back title win at Survivor Series last month, or so the theory goes. The good news is that the match was quite solid.

Jericho, who has been turning in match-of-the-year contenders most of the year with Shawn Michaels, is now primed for a long feud with Cena, and his experience from the extended Michaels feud benefited him tonight. Both Cena and Jericho earned their designer watches tonight, and although Cena predictably won, the match didn’t necessarily resolve the feud, so much as add fuel to the fire.

But considering we’re now in the run-up to WrestleMania, that’s only apropos.

In a recent newspaper interview, Chris Jericho admitted something that may land him on some Wal-Mart promotional bags before too long. Seems that the WWE superstar, when he was just starting out in Jim Coronette’s promotion, whiled his days between wrestling dates and training, by hanging out at a 24/7 Walmart store in Morristown, TN.

Other hangouts for the young Jericho were movie theaters and the local Sizzler steakhouse. Jericho had spent most of his adult life in wrestling up until 2005, when he decided to walk away for a while; he returned, refreshed and revitalized, two years later, about a year ago.

Chris Jericho put on a great show in full-on villain mode, but the WWE’s second-most-overhyped worker was his opponent: Batista. And of course, that meant the end of Jericho’s solid title reign.

Jericho carried Batista the whole match, and the introduction of the mystery special guest referee ended up being: Stone Cold Steve Austin, rather than Shawn Michaels. (Thank the L-RD!)

Austin played his role to the hilt, hitting Stunners on Randy Orton (who ran in), as well as Jericho before the match was over, and counting the three-count for the title change to make it more exciting than it would have been otherwise.

The top moment of the PPV was when Jericho tried to get himself counted out like a keylogger to avoid the match, and Austin threatened to switch the title on him if he did that. It was a classic “‘cuz Stone Cold says so” moment that really amped up the entertainment factor.

WINNER: Batista
RATING: 8.9

Chris Jericho versus Shawn Michaels is one of the longest-running feuds in recent WWE history, and for good reason; not only can these two men deliver devastating, impressive matches each time they are called upon to do so, but both are so good on the mike and such skilled in-ring storytellers, that even after running for more than six months, the feud doesn’t seem to be showing any signs of aging.

Perhaps that’s because the WWE writing crew is really putting their creative juices to work on this epic storyline; each time you think the feud has reached its crescendo, a new chapter unfolds that reveals something about one or both participants in the feud.

It’s not often that I admire the writing in pro wrestling; too often it’s chock-full of cheap, tawdry storylines meant to inspire the cheap laugh or shock. But Jericho-Michaels has been a fascinating ride, and considering to began during the waning days of the shorter, but still interesting, Michaels-Flair feud, it’s amazing how this thing is still going on.

The last time a WWE storyline ran this long was when Triple H and Stephanie McMahon began the infamous McMahon-Helmsley Era storyline, around a decade ago. This storyline has been far more fascinating. And I doubt it will inspire as many Halloween invitations and Steph masks.