(2/12) Best Matches Series: The Best Matches of Chris Jericho (Season 5 Episode 2)

joshandstupodcast
Jul 15, 2020
2 min read

Welcome to Season 5 of my Best Matches series: where I look at the best matches of a certain wrestler. This season I look at one of the best wrestling reinventors of all time (my opinion, of course, haha) and distant family member Chris Jericho (no proof of that, just that his real-life surname is Irvine so you never know haha).

I'll look at his time in WCW, his battles in the 2000s with the likes of Triple H, The Rock, etc. To his late WWE career as well as his time in New Japan etc. If you want to look at my previous series then click on the link below.

(These posts will be once a week and not every day as in the previous series. So every Wednesday at 1 pm (UK Time) these reviews will be up)

Check out the last four seasons:

Kenny Omega (Season 1)

https://joshandstupodcast.wixsite.com/jswrestlingpod/post/all-posts-from-season-one-of-best-matches-series-kenny-omega-in-njpw

Becky Lynch (Season 2)

https://joshandstupodcast.wixsite.com/jswrestlingpod/post/all-posts-from-season-two-of-best-matches-series-the-best-of-becky-lynch-s-in-nxt-wwe

Stone Cold Steve Austin (Season 3)

https://joshandstupodcast.wixsite.com/jswrestlingpod/post/all-post-from-season-three-of-best-matches-series-best-matches-of-stone-cold-steve-austin

Eddie Guerrero (Season 4)

https://joshandstupodcast.wixsite.com/jswrestlingpod/post/all-posts-from-season-four-of-best-matches-series-eddie-guerrero

Next, we look at Chris Jericho's match against CM Punk in Chicago Street Fight for the WWE Championship at Extreme Rules 2012.

Season 5 Episode Two

Chicago Street Fight for the WWE Championship Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk Extreme Rules 2012 • April 29, 2012

This was excellent from top to bottom, I mean this had everything you want in a street fight and, with this match being so personal with Jericho bringing up Punk's drunk father in the build-up, and that his sister was in the crowd, as well as the hot Chicago crowd you knew it was going to be good.

Jericho was great and once again shows why he is one of the best heel wrestlers in history. He knows how to play a crowd from the spot with Punk's sister slapping his face to the drinking beer then pouring beer all over punk knowing it would piss off the fan. Also, trying to hit punks own GTS etc. Not a lot of wrestlers have the ability to read a crowd like that.

Punk was great at playing the pissed off champion, the intensity he showed in some parts of this match was spot on, from the reaction to Jericho trying to hit his sister to the ending with Punk's comeback by using the exposed turnbuckle (Which you knew they would use haha) then the GTS for the win. Both men worked well together and produced a pretty great title match.

I forget how good CM Punk was and how good his title run was, and it's sad we only got three matches as this could have been a classic feud. But I just wish they added blood to this match as it would have made it just a little better as it was a personal feud. But, if you like great in-ring storytelling and awesome action, you should check out this match.

Verdict: 8 out of 10

Watch The Full Match on WWE Network (Go to 1 Hour 36 Minutes into the Video)

https://watch.wwe.com/episode/WWE-Extreme-Rules-2012-11885

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