5 real backstage brawls where the favorites lost

#4 Chris Jericho vs. Sin Cara

Sin Cara may not have Chris Jericho's star power, but he can more than hold his own in a fight

Chris Jericho is a multi-time world champion and surefire eventual Hall of Famer. Sin Cara? The worker playing the gimmick now lucked into the role when Mexican megastar, Mistico, proved an ill fit for WWE. He’s far from a legend, and is rather the kind of talent you have to assume will stay in the mid-card or tag team scene indefinitely, before his eventual release.

Jericho and Sin Cara purportedly got into a fight while WWE was touring Europe last year. Details remain sketchy, but we know a few pieces of the outcome. Jericho was sporting a black eye shortly afterward. Sin Cara was sent to anger management classes. The consensus seems to be that Sin Cara won.

This is a surprise outcome given each man’s standing in pro wrestling, and given Jericho’s courage in previously going toe-to-toe with Goldberg in WCW, and not backing down from a real confrontation with Brock Lesnar. However, Sin Cara reportedly got the best of previous brawls with Simon Gotch and Sheamus as well, so maybe he should have been favoured all along.