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* Beating Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli for the Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Championship at ''AEW Grand Slam 2022'', yet ''another'' accolade added to his exhaustive list of accomplishments (his eighth world championship win, leading to his new nickname "the Ocho"). While he would bombastically declare himself the greatest ROH champion of all time in the typically facetious heelish manner, his multiple title defences over the course of his 80-day reign before Claudio won the belt back, including against many other former ROH title holders such as Wrestling/ColtCabana, Wrestling/TomohiroIshii, Wrestling/DaltonCastle and Bandido, made many people admit that he was genuinely making a legitimate case to add himself to the list (no pun intended) of the ROH greats in record time.

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* Beating Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli for the Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Championship at ''AEW Grand Slam 2022'', yet ''another'' accolade added to his exhaustive list of accomplishments (his eighth world championship win, leading to his new nickname "the Ocho"). While he would bombastically declare himself the greatest ROH champion of all time in the typically facetious heelish manner, his multiple title defences over the course of his 80-day reign before Claudio won the belt back, including against many other former ROH title holders such as Wrestling/ColtCabana, Wrestling/TomohiroIshii, Wrestling/DaltonCastle and Bandido, made many people admit that he was genuinely making a legitimate case to add himself to the list (no pun intended) of the ROH greats in record time.time.
* His match against Wrestling/WillOspreay at ''All In 2023''. When news leaked that Jericho was planned as Ospreay's opponent rather than having the much-preferred rubber match against Wrestling/KennyOmega, many people rolled their eyes at what they perceived as Jericho trying to put himself ahead of younger and more deserving talents again and mainly being concerned with getting Fozzy a spot in front of the massive 80k+ crowd, but on the Dynamite before the event the two men had an absolutely ''killer'' promo face-off which won most of the doubters over. When the event came, Jericho did perform his own entrance theme live with his bandmates (including recreating [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddy Mercury's]] famous "Ay Oh!" call-and-response from Live-Aid in 1985) and the UK crowd was ''hugely'' into it, but Jericho was savvy enough to know he had to play heel against the incredibly-over (even with Wrestling/DonCallis in his corner) HomeTownHero Ospreay and didn't futilely try to win them over. And then the match absolutely ''ruled,'' which may not have surprised many considering that ''[[TheAce Will Ospreay]]'' was in it, but Jericho put his big boy worker pants on that night and fought like mad to the bitter end before putting the young legend over, even kicking out of the [=OsCutter=] and [[DefiantToTheEnd defiantly flipping Ospreay off]] while daring him to deliver the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Hidden Blade]] to his ''face'' instead of the back of his head. A definite all-time career highlight match in Jericho's 30+ year career.
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* Beating Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli for the Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Championship at ''AEW Grand Slam 2022'', yet ''another'' accolade added to his exhaustive list of accomplishments. While he would bombastically declare himself the greatest ROH champion of all time in the typically facetious heelish manner, his multiple title defences over the course of his 80-day reign before Claudio won the belt back, including against many other former ROH title holders such as Wrestling/ColtCabana, Wrestling/TomohiroIshii, Wrestling/DaltonCastle and Bandido, made many people admit that he was genuinely making a legitimate case to add himself to the list (no pun intended) of the ROH greats in record time.

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* Beating Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli for the Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Championship at ''AEW Grand Slam 2022'', yet ''another'' accolade added to his exhaustive list of accomplishments.accomplishments (his eighth world championship win, leading to his new nickname "the Ocho"). While he would bombastically declare himself the greatest ROH champion of all time in the typically facetious heelish manner, his multiple title defences over the course of his 80-day reign before Claudio won the belt back, including against many other former ROH title holders such as Wrestling/ColtCabana, Wrestling/TomohiroIshii, Wrestling/DaltonCastle and Bandido, made many people admit that he was genuinely making a legitimate case to add himself to the list (no pun intended) of the ROH greats in record time.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cx8CyQkQxc THIS]]: for context, Wrestling/{{MJF}} has been in a months-long feud with Jericho ever since the former tried to destroy the Inner Circle with his new faction, the Pinnacle. Before their match, MJF dictates that neither Chris' Judas Effect nor his theme song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqURPBtGJzg Judas]]" can be used. As Jericho comes out for their match, there's no music, but the crowd doesn't care as they sing the lyrics to the song ACappella.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cx8CyQkQxc THIS]]: for context, Wrestling/{{MJF}} has been in a months-long feud with Jericho ever since the former tried to destroy the Inner Circle with his new faction, the Pinnacle. Before their match, MJF dictates that neither Chris' Judas Effect nor his theme song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqURPBtGJzg Judas]]" can be used. As Jericho comes out for their match, there's no music, but the crowd doesn't care as they sing the lyrics to the song ACappella.ACappella.
* In response to criticisms of his ring work slipping and him getting out of shape, Jericho put in the hard yards to get himself back into prime shape for his match against Wrestling/EddieKingston at ''Revolution 2022'', even having a visible 6-pack again. Less that 10 seconds into the match, Kingston got behind Jericho and gave him a half-and-half suplex that dropped him ''right on his head,'' but Jericho recovered from the devastating impact and the two men proceeded to put on a brutal [[Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling King's Road-style]] match that was hailed as one of the best of Jericho's entire AEW run, kicking off what would be a premier year for him.
* Beating Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli for the Wrestling/RingOfHonor World Championship at ''AEW Grand Slam 2022'', yet ''another'' accolade added to his exhaustive list of accomplishments. While he would bombastically declare himself the greatest ROH champion of all time in the typically facetious heelish manner, his multiple title defences over the course of his 80-day reign before Claudio won the belt back, including against many other former ROH title holders such as Wrestling/ColtCabana, Wrestling/TomohiroIshii, Wrestling/DaltonCastle and Bandido, made many people admit that he was genuinely making a legitimate case to add himself to the list (no pun intended) of the ROH greats in record time.
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* A real life CMOA was his series of CNN interviews following Wrestling/ChrisBenoit's murder-suicide, during which he acted as an intelligent and well-spoken ambassador for pro wrestling, correcting a lot of Nancy Grace's {{Critical Research Failure}}s.

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* A real life CMOA was his series of CNN interviews following Wrestling/ChrisBenoit's murder-suicide, during which he acted as an intelligent and well-spoken ambassador for pro wrestling, correcting a lot of Nancy Grace's {{Critical Research Failure}}s.mistakes.
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* Beating [[VillainTeamUp The Two-Man Power Trip]] of Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin & Wrestling/TripleH for the WWF Tag Team Championships with Wrestling/ChrisBenoit on ''RAW'' and retaining the titles in a Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match against The Hardy Boyz, Wrestling/{{Edge}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}} and The Dudley Boyz on ''''[=SmackDown=]''!'' later that week.

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* Beating [[VillainTeamUp The Two-Man Power Trip]] of Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin & Wrestling/TripleH for the WWF Tag Team Championships with Wrestling/ChrisBenoit on ''RAW'' and retaining the titles in a Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match against The Hardy Boyz, Wrestling/{{Edge}} Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}} and The Dudley Boyz on ''''[=SmackDown=]''!'' later that week.
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** Jericho did it AGAIN, as he has been relevaled to be the one behind the "It begins" videos that popped up on RAW at 2011's end.

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** Jericho did it AGAIN, as he has been relevaled revealed to be the one behind the "It begins" videos that popped up on RAW at 2011's end.



* Jericho has generally had ''great'' difficulty against both Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/TripleH, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3bK3tr4UR8 this]] sequence, in which he pinned Cena, put him in the Walls of Jericho and then hit a Codebreaker on Triple H, was a fantastic Two Minutes of Awesome for Jericho. (Granted, he had Wrestling/TheBigShow helping him, but still).

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* Jericho has generally had ''great'' difficulty against both Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/TripleH, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3bK3tr4UR8 this]] sequence, in which he pinned Cena, put him in the Walls of Jericho and then hit a Codebreaker on Triple H, was a fantastic Two Minutes of Awesome for Jericho. (Granted, he had Wrestling/TheBigShow The Wrestling/BigShow helping him, but still).



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* Although he was a heel and a thorough {{Jerkass}} at the time, it is worth mentioning [[Wrestling/UnforgivenWrestling Unforgiven 2008]]. After a violent feud with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels that included Jericho socking Michaels's wife in the face, it all came to a head at Unforgiven 2008, where Jericho withstood an enraged Shawn's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in an "Unsanctioned Street Fight". It was so bad that the ref simply called for the bell while Jericho was locked in a submission, completely out cold. But this isn't the awesome part: later in the night Wrestling/CMPunk was assaulted backstage during an interview, which took him out of the Championship Scramble main event. The match itself proceeded as planned until what was supposed to be Punk's entrance...and instead of Punk, out stumbles Chris Jericho, who inserted himself into the match. Despite all the punishment he suffered earlier, ''he '''won''' the match'', which marked the beginning of his first World Heavyweight Championship reign.

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* Although he was a heel and a thorough {{Jerkass}} at the time, it is worth mentioning [[Wrestling/UnforgivenWrestling [[Wrestling/UnforgivenWWE Unforgiven 2008]]. After a violent feud with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels that included Jericho socking Michaels's wife in the face, it all came to a head at Unforgiven 2008, where Jericho withstood an enraged Shawn's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in an "Unsanctioned Street Fight". It was so bad that the ref simply called for the bell while Jericho was locked in a submission, completely out cold. But this isn't the awesome part: later in the night Wrestling/CMPunk was assaulted backstage during an interview, which took him out of the Championship Scramble main event. The match itself proceeded as planned until what was supposed to be Punk's entrance...and instead of Punk, out stumbles Chris Jericho, who inserted himself into the match. Despite all the punishment he suffered earlier, ''he '''won''' the match'', which marked the beginning of his first World Heavyweight Championship reign.

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