Having read numerous reports on various "spoiler" sites, it appears WWE may be looking at Chris Jericho vs Ryback for Wrestlemania 29.
Now, as we know, Jericho returned at the Rumble and appeared to be over greatly, as a face.
Now, with all of these comparisons Ryback has unfairly been given to Goldberg, it got me thinking, will WWE finally let Jericho have the feud he got over all by himself back in WCW in 1998?
Long time fans will remember the cheeky, arrogant prick Jericho was in WCW in 1997-1998, and months after Goldberg won the WCW Title, he was booked in a mini feud with Jericho. The story goes that guys like Nash got in Goldberg's ear and advied him to veto the feud as he would be burying himself competing against one of the "vanilla midgets". Problem was, Jericho carried this feud brilliantly, such examples of starting his own streak in Jericho vs Goldberg matches by beating midgets look-alikes and count out victories after calling an absent from the building Goldberg out. Jericho was so hot at this stage, it built to a Goldberg killing Jericho match at World War 3 pay per view, but weeks out, Bischoff canned the idea, a move which infuriated Jericho, who was more than happy to have Goldberg burying him in 30 seconds on tv on ppv, as this match had buy rates and money written all over it. The "feud" ended with Goldberg spearing Jericho in the aisle on Nitro, and the nagle was over, a multi gold payday gone due to selfishness and politics, and the reason Jericho ended up taking Goldberg down backstage, then again choking him out backstage in 2003 in WWE.
Now, back to my point, the only way I can see this working as a feud is for Jericho to turn heel and basically rehash the feud the exact way he had planned and got over in 1998 in the angle with Goldberg. So perhaps Jericho is behind the Shield for storyline purposes, explaining why Shield have been attacking Ryback for all of these months. The EC ppv could have the big reveal, then we have 6 weeks of Jericho taunting and cowarding behind the Shield, with Ryback hungry to get his hands on Jericho, and of course the big pay off is Ryback destroying Jericho at Wrestlemania.
We all know Jericho is one of the most selfless guys in the business and always elevates guys and does best for business. So Jericho returning to feud and elevate Ryback to make him meaningful again I think could and would work following this storyline arc Jericho devised for his Goldberg feud 15 years ago. Your thoughts.....
Now, as we know, Jericho returned at the Rumble and appeared to be over greatly, as a face.
Now, with all of these comparisons Ryback has unfairly been given to Goldberg, it got me thinking, will WWE finally let Jericho have the feud he got over all by himself back in WCW in 1998?
Long time fans will remember the cheeky, arrogant prick Jericho was in WCW in 1997-1998, and months after Goldberg won the WCW Title, he was booked in a mini feud with Jericho. The story goes that guys like Nash got in Goldberg's ear and advied him to veto the feud as he would be burying himself competing against one of the "vanilla midgets". Problem was, Jericho carried this feud brilliantly, such examples of starting his own streak in Jericho vs Goldberg matches by beating midgets look-alikes and count out victories after calling an absent from the building Goldberg out. Jericho was so hot at this stage, it built to a Goldberg killing Jericho match at World War 3 pay per view, but weeks out, Bischoff canned the idea, a move which infuriated Jericho, who was more than happy to have Goldberg burying him in 30 seconds on tv on ppv, as this match had buy rates and money written all over it. The "feud" ended with Goldberg spearing Jericho in the aisle on Nitro, and the nagle was over, a multi gold payday gone due to selfishness and politics, and the reason Jericho ended up taking Goldberg down backstage, then again choking him out backstage in 2003 in WWE.
Now, back to my point, the only way I can see this working as a feud is for Jericho to turn heel and basically rehash the feud the exact way he had planned and got over in 1998 in the angle with Goldberg. So perhaps Jericho is behind the Shield for storyline purposes, explaining why Shield have been attacking Ryback for all of these months. The EC ppv could have the big reveal, then we have 6 weeks of Jericho taunting and cowarding behind the Shield, with Ryback hungry to get his hands on Jericho, and of course the big pay off is Ryback destroying Jericho at Wrestlemania.
We all know Jericho is one of the most selfless guys in the business and always elevates guys and does best for business. So Jericho returning to feud and elevate Ryback to make him meaningful again I think could and would work following this storyline arc Jericho devised for his Goldberg feud 15 years ago. Your thoughts.....