Chris Jericho of the rock band Fozzy was among the original ECW performers
#3: Chris Jericho
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Chris Jericho at the 2017 Metal Hammer Golden God Awards In London
Chris Jericho made his professional wrestling debut in 1990 after training in Canada. In 1991, he and Lance Storm made it to Japan. The following year, Jericho moved to Mexico, where he found his first success as a wrestler.
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In 1995, Jericho finally made it to ECW after being recommended to Paul Heyman. Jericho went on to win the ECW World Television Championship in June 1996. Just two months later Jericho was appearing on WCW weekly television.
Over the past decade, Jericho has come and go with the WWE. Most recently, he was part of the Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia. Several months prior, Jericho shocked wrestling fans around the world by appearing as part of a New Japan Pro-Wrestling vignette in November 2017. He has since won the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, making him the first wrestler to have held both the WWE and IWGP's International Championships.
The future for Jericho has a lot of question marks, but the Winnipeg, Canada native has not announced anything resembling a retirement match or a farewell to the wrestling business. As of late, he has been touring very actively with his band Fozzy.
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Darren Paltrowitz
Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer.
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