50 Fun Facts About Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho devised which WWE match, first held at WrestleMania 21, whose winner claims a briefcase?

Money in the Bank was Jericho's own idea: he pitched it to Raw general manager Eric Bischoff, then lost the first one himself.

Whose speech did Chris Jericho interrupt when his millennium countdown clock hit zero on Raw in 1999?

The Rock was mid-promo in Chicago when the clock ran out and Jericho walked on as Y2J, a play on the Y2K bug. He answered by mocking the newcomer for interrupting.

Chris Jericho has fronted which heavy metal band, originally a covers act, since 1999?

Fozzy began life as a cover band called Fozzy Osbourne, and Jericho first fronted it in character as a singer named Moongoose McQueen.

Chris Jericho's first match outside WWE since 1999 was a 2018 Tokyo Dome classic against whom?

Kenny Omega beat him in a no-disqualification bout, the first match of Jericho's long career rated a perfect five by the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer.

On which TV contest did Chris Jericho partner two-time champion Cheryl Burke in 2011?

Dancing with the Stars sent him home on April 26 as the fifth contestant eliminated, after a wave of publicity that included an interview with Jay Leno.

Which Hollywood actor punched out Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 25, after Jericho beat three legends?

Mickey Rourke, then acclaimed for the film The Wrestler, had been due to fight Jericho himself before pulling out. Jericho instead beat Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snuka and Ricky Steamboat.

Chris Jericho lost to Orange Cassidy at All Out 2020 by being knocked into a vat of which cocktail?

Mimosa gave the bout its name, Mimosa Mayhem, and a dunking counted the same as a pinfall or submission. Cassidy's punch sent Jericho off the top rope and into the drink.

Which Canadian city, where Chris Jericho grew up, renamed part of a street after him in 2023?

Winnipeg became home when his father retired from professional hockey, and the stretch of Wordsworth Way where he lived was renamed Chris Jericho Way.

Where was Chris Jericho threatened with arrest in 2012 for kicking the national flag at a WWE live event?

Brazil's police halted the live event until Jericho apologised to the crowd, and WWE suspended him for 30 days the following day.

Chris Jericho was 'fired' from Raw in 2005 after losing a title match to which WWE Champion?

John Cena had already beaten him at SummerSlam the night before, and security carried Jericho out of the arena. He stayed away from WWE for two years.

Which type of match between Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels at No Mercy 2008 was voted Match of the Year?

Ladder was the stipulation, with Jericho's World Heavyweight Championship hung above the ring. Wrestling Observer readers also named the rivalry their Feud of the Year.

Chris Jericho lost a Last Man Standing match at Fully Loaded 2000 by a single second to which rival?

Triple H got to his feet at the count of nine while Jericho stayed down for ten. Earlier, Stephanie McMahon had broken Jericho's submission hold on her storyline husband.

At which 2001 event did Chris Jericho win two world titles in one night to become Undisputed WWF Champion?

Vengeance ended with him pinning Stone Cold Steve Austin, making him the first man to hold the WWF and WCW world titles together. He carried both belts until WrestleMania X8.

Which rival staked his mask against Chris Jericho's Intercontinental title at The Bash in 2009?

Rey Mysterio kept his mask and took the title back, three weeks after Jericho had won it by tearing the mask off him in a No Holds Barred match.

Which WWE Champion did Chris Jericho face at WrestleMania XXVIII over the title of best in the world?

CM Punk kept the title that night and again four weeks later in a Chicago Street Fight, after Jericho had turned the feud personal with claims about his family.

Which best friend attacked Chris Jericho at the Festival of Friendship Jericho threw for him in 2017?

Kevin Owens handed him a gift, a fresh list with Jericho's own name at the top, then turned on him. Their feud ran to WrestleMania 33, where the United States title changed hands.

Which Royal Rumble winner and former partner did Chris Jericho beat at WrestleMania XXVI to stay world champion?

Edge had thrown him out of the Rumble on his way to winning it, months after an injury broke up their championship team. Jericho won at WrestleMania but lost the title days later.

Chris Jericho won a world title in February 2010 by outlasting The Undertaker and four others in which match?

Elimination Chamber was the setting: Jericho last eliminated The Undertaker, the defending champion, after Shawn Michaels interfered.

Chris Jericho won his first WWF title in 1999 from which rival, who later became his co-champion?

Chyna, the only woman to hold the Intercontinental title, shared it with him after two referees each named a different winner in a rematch.

Chris Jericho shared the 2009 Tag Team of the Year Slammy with which giant, his stand-in partner?

Big Show joined him as Jeri-Show after Jericho invoked a contract clause to keep the tag titles, and the pair held them until D-Generation X won a TLC match that December.

Which rival won a Slamboree 1998 battle royal in disguise, then beat Chris Jericho for his WCW title?

Dean Malenko pulled off a Ciclope mask to reveal himself, then took the title. Jericho had been taunting the absent Man of 1,000 Holds, even bringing a portrait of him to the ring to insult.

When Chris Jericho read his list of 1,004 holds on Nitro in 1998, which hold was nearly every other entry?

Armbar came up again and again on the long scroll he unrolled after beating Marty Jannetty, and many of the other holds on it were simply made up.

Chris Jericho held which WCW championship four times, wearing trophies taken from his beaten challengers?

Cruiserweight gold was his first WCW title, won from Syxx at a 1997 live event, and the trophies he paraded included a headband taken from Disco Inferno.

Which luchador had to unmask after losing a title versus mask match to Chris Jericho at SuperBrawl VIII?

Juventud Guerrera took too long to unmask for Jericho's liking, so Jericho ripped the mask off for him and later wore it to the ring.

Which WCW champion's refusal to wrestle Chris Jericho fuelled a feud settled at Bad Blood in 2003?

Goldberg won at Bad Blood, five years after Jericho had spent months calling him out on WCW television without ever getting the match.

At WCW Souled Out 1999, Chris Jericho beat Perry Saturn in a match whose loser had to wear what?

A dress was the forfeit, and the feud only got stranger: Saturn finally beat Jericho two months later in a dog collar match at Uncensored.

Chris Jericho's first match, in 1990, was a draw against which future Thrillseekers tag partner?

Lance Storm met him on their first day at wrestling school, and the two debuted against each other at the Moose Hall in Ponoka, Alberta.

Chris Jericho took his ring surname from the album Walls of Jericho by which German power metal band?

Helloween supplied the name on the spot: he had meant to call himself Jack Action, but blurted out Chris Jericho when pressed for a ring name.

Seeing footage of which Stampede Wrestling high-flyer made a young Chris Jericho want to become a wrestler?

Owen Hart's aerial moves gave him the ambition, and at 19 he enrolled in a wrestling school that carried the Hart family name.

Chris Jericho was born in the United States because his father, Ted Irvine, was playing for which NHL team?

New York Rangers duty put Ted Irvine in Manhasset, New York, where his son was born in 1970. The family moved back to Canada when he retired, and Jericho holds both citizenships.

Which fellow Canadian held tag team titles with Chris Jericho in 2002, then beat him at WrestleMania XX?

Christian won at WrestleMania XX when Trish Stratus struck Jericho by mistake. After the bell she turned on Jericho and sided with Christian.

Chris Jericho's seventh Intercontinental title win in 2004 broke a record held since 1999 by which wrestler?

Jeff Jarrett's mark fell when Jericho won the belt for a seventh time at Unforgiven, and Jericho went on to stretch his own record to nine reigns.

Which referee's fast count gave Chris Jericho a WWF Championship win on Raw in 2000 that was later reversed?

Earl Hebner counted the pin quickly, then overturned his own decision under pressure from the deposed champion, so WWE does not recognise the reign.

Chris Jericho returned in 2007 by interrupting which WWE Champion's 'passing of the torch' ceremony?

Randy Orton was the target after weeks of cryptic binary-code videos, with Jericho vowing to save fans from the champion. In 2010 an Orton kick to the head wrote Jericho out again.

Which finishing move did Chris Jericho debut on his 2007 comeback, in a win over Santino Marella on Raw?

Codebreaker became the signature finisher of his second WWE run, unveiled one week after he returned from two years away.

The Walls of Jericho, Chris Jericho's signature submission, is an elevated version of which classic hold?

Boston crab is the base, with the opponent's legs hauled up higher than usual. In his WCW days Jericho called the same hold the Liontamer.

Chris Jericho modelled his cold, suit-wearing 2008 villain on a character from which Coen brothers film?

No Country for Old Men gave him Anton Chigurh, Javier Bardem's quiet hitman, as a template, alongside the old-school champion Nick Bockwinkel.

Which WWE interview segment did Chris Jericho host beside a television he called the Jeritron 6000?

The Highlight Reel is where he threw Shawn Michaels through that very screen in 2008, injuring his eye and igniting their Feud of the Year.

Chris Jericho won a 2014 Slammy for leaping off the top of a steel cage on Raw onto which rival?

Bray Wyatt took the crossbody that was voted Extreme Moment of the Year, in the last of three matches that began after his followers attacked Jericho on his return.

Chris Jericho attacked which tag team partner in March 2016, then beat him at WrestleMania 32?

AJ Styles had formed the team Y2AJ with him only two weeks earlier, until Jericho snapped at crowds chanting for his partner instead of him.

Who did Chris Jericho beat at All Out in August 2019 to become the first AEW World Champion?

Adam Page had earned the title shot by winning the Casino Battle Royale at AEW's first event, Double or Nothing, where Jericho won the main event.

Who ended Chris Jericho's 182-day reign as the first AEW World Champion at Revolution in 2020?

Jon Moxley took the title after Jericho had spent weeks trying, and failing, to recruit him into his own stable.

Which faction did Chris Jericho form with Sammy Guevara and Jake Hager on the first episode of AEW Dynamite?

The Inner Circle also included the tag team Santana and Ortiz, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated named it Faction of the Year for 2021.

Chris Jericho's side lost AEW's first Stadium Stampede in 2020 in the empty home of which NFL team?

Jaguars' home TIAA Bank Field hosted the pre-recorded brawl during the pandemic, right next door to AEW's regular base at Daily's Place.

Which faction, led by MJF, beat Chris Jericho's group in AEW's first Blood and Guts match in 2021?

The Pinnacle formed when MJF, briefly a member of Jericho's own stable, turned on it. After the bell he threw Jericho off the top of the cage.

Chris Jericho began calling himself The Ocho after winning which promotion's world title in 2022?

Ring of Honor's belt, won from Claudio Castagnoli, was his eighth world championship, hence the Spanish nickname. He became The Nueve after winning it a second time.

Which song by Chris Jericho's band became his AEW entrance theme and was certified gold in 2022?

Judas reached number five on the US Mainstream Rock chart, and the band played it live for his entrance at Wembley Stadium in 2023.

Chris Jericho won New Japan's Intercontinental title at Dominion in 2018 by beating which champion?

Tetsuya Naito's defeat made Jericho the first man to hold both the WWE and IWGP versions of that title. Naito won it back at Wrestle Kingdom 13.

Wrestling in Japan as Lion Heart, Chris Jericho lost an NWA title in 1994 to which masked rival?

Último Dragón ended an 11-month reign that Jericho had begun in Mexico, where he wrestled under the name Corazón de León.

Which British wrestler beat Chris Jericho at AEW All In at Wembley Stadium in August 2023?

Will Ospreay won the match a day after Jericho had made a surprise appearance at a Revolution Pro Wrestling event in order to attack him.