>>14223455Great point. The people didn't get to miss him, and he didn't get enough time to warrant a ''reinvention''. His consistent presence on TV led to him jumping from opponent to opponent with no real rhyme or reason, other than the shoot desire to have a match with that person. He would always be there, talking about something, but you'd never figure out why that is. You couldn't even be certain if he was a heel or a babyface this time, kind of like how Beeg used to be circa 2012. I mean he wrestled ospreay on his big Wembley match, and went 25 minutes with him, and for what? I doubt that many people even recall much about the match.
The other big thing is that he stopped coming up with fresh new material. Similarly to how the Bucks operate on TV, he's been doing some ironic heel thing, never fully comitting to actually trying to work people into disliking him, nor did he lean into the legitimate go away heat he's got with them. He goes the easy route, and resorts to bringing something back from his past, and build his entire current ''storyline'' around a lame reference. The appeal of Jericho back then was the ingenuity in his work, and the cutting edge ways he'd find to get over without being cheap. There hasn't been any of that in Chris' repertoire in a few years now. He either lost it or doesn't want to bother anymore, which is a shame because his stuff is still interesting in theory. This is controversial, but I maintain that they could have developed a great storyline out of his loss to a jobber (action andretti) last year. A losing streak storyline followed by a triumphant redemptive run could be the emotionally gripping stuff that his career needs in order to finish on a high note.
