This was the event that lead me to discover dirt sheets. I watched wcw and my best friend watched wwf exclusively... I noticed we hadn't seen Jericho in a while and then my friend told me about the count down to y2j so we got on the ol dial up and looked it up... opened our eyes.

I probably found out through AOL lol. That's how I learned about dirt sheets in the first place.

Armbar…

The Goldberg was one of the best promos in WCW especially the Calling him Greenberg and claiming he beat Goldberg 2 times. The bodyguards where pretty funny as well, getting guys that are just regular WCW works was also great because it got them camera time, you could see they enjoyed being noticed by a guy like Chris. Who is very friendly person, Chris was old school heel from the throw back days, he made you believe everything he said.

So it did matter to you or not? That comment is a bit of an open ended mystery. But I get you man just fucking around. Jericho is so amazing he makes us fumble. My cousin was always a die hard HBK fan. And his has been stick used to seethe him. I still ask him. Did your favourite wrestler beat the Rock and Austin on the same night?

@@Padge112 LOL, it didn't matter that I knew Jericho was debuting that night for sure because without the surprise was still just as exciting. Because if I never heard it before from Meltzer I would not have been there. So it all works out in the end! I am a lucky wrestling fan, I've gone to around 50 shows in the past 38 years of watching wrestling, including 10 pay per views which included, two Wrestlemanias and a Summerslam!

@@MissterX nice!

My smart friend told me before hand.

Monday Night Jericho! One of the dumbest things Goldberg ever did was not do a program with Jericho. Chris could have put him over and made him "look" like a real wrestler instead of a football player who just no-sells and spears people. Instead, he had a bug up his ass about it for years.

Jericho wasn't major to WCW

@@InvisibleHotdog Chris did a lot for WCW. Their cruiserweight division was some of their best stuff. He was multitalented even back then. He definitely could have been a main eventer there if they would have progressed instead of keeping the same guys at the top

@@silverback9572 his work didn't translate to results, the same as Steve Austin or any other exceptional talent WWF got from WCW

@@InvisibleHotdog Steve Austin was considered an upper mid carder-they tossed him aside him too.

Austin, Big Show, and Jericho made the Attitude Era special.

yeah, weird seeing that

The devil's lettuce

Are you that stupid? Bischoff made that company. WCW falling to WWE was all Ted Turner and AOL Dumbass

Its easy to say that now. Jericho had a good thing going in WCW but at that time, he wasn't a huge name there. But if you told me at that time (late 90's) that in 2021 Jericho would still be wrestling for a major promotion and had a long and illustrious career I probably wouldn't of believed it.

Jericho always wanted to go to the WWF before he even got to WCW. He probably would have been a world champion way sooner in WCW.

@@greenbaysixxstring5008 I don't really blame Turner. He lost control and the new guys were idiots we thought WCW was worthless and somehow AOL was worth the world despite broadband, and cheaper better dial up already displacing it.

@@greenbaysixxstring5008 Wrong. Bischoff turned the company around from losing huge amounts of money, to a company making huge amounts of money. However, he had virtually no idea about how to sustain the growth of the company. There is no shame in that, and Bischoff can’t solely be blamed for the company’s downfall. But his reliance on the tired NWO angle, and inability to allow wrestlers to actually tell stories during matches, whilst he wasted guys like Austin, Jericho, Benoit, and Guerrero, was a huge part of the company’s decline. People were bored of seeing older stars just doing run-ins and getting in mass brawls every single week. Find one Nitro where the main event ended in a clean finish. Never forget that the ‘finger poke of doom’ happened on Bischoff’s watch, and that was the very moment that the ratings began to shift back in the WWF’s favour. Whilst a tired WCW audience was switching over to watch Steve Austin in the WWF, Bischoff was STILL overlooking the the likes of Jericho, Guerrero and Benoit, whilst he continued booking the stale NWO angle every week, and boring the remaining audience into submission.

JR said they didn't know how the crowd would react. But the pop when Jericho showed on screen after the unknown music played for 10 seconds was huge. I was a giant Jerichoholic but didn't know he was the countdown clock, so I was surprised it was him. Again, huge fan, but he was mid-card in WCW, didn't know how WWE would use him, but giving him the clock and interrupting the Rock was huge, and the pop was bigger. Then they mid-carded him for far too long, but as normal, Chris carried himself up the card to the top. Good times!

Austin is my guess.

@@Zdog122 he made more

@@darlinbood3991 Yeah you’re probably right

Austin made 10 million

On another episode JR said that he once gave Austin a cheque for 1 million dollars just for his merchandise sales for one quarter.

I dont think that's tobacco but I could be wrong. They appear to be hand rolled and very large. He also hits it very slowly, like whole minutes between hits. Coincidentally I am smoking a cig during this video and I am hitting it like 5 times in between his hits.

Not sure it's a normal cigarette. JR has always said he likes the hippie lettuce haha.

That's a joint.

NO NO NO. The busniess was leveling out. but they WWE was not focusing on Austin anymore. Not only that austin health was bad and the rock was leaving for hollywood.

@@Robby818 Didn't mean Jericho of all people had to go over them both on the same night.

The business jumped ship way before that decision.

@@emperorburton You're probably right. That was the last straw for me.

it was in feb 2001 I believe and yes as much as I liked Chris, I didn't feel like the time was right for him in that moment but this was WWE pushing their "chosen one" down our throats.

That ain’t tobacco…