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#23 Chris Jericho's feud with Ricky Steamboat
Ricky Steamboat was one of Chris Jericho's idol growing up. It's to Steamboat's credit that in his mid-50s, he was still able to perform above expectations against an uber heel like Chris Jericho.
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They competed in several house show matches beyond their matches at WrestleMania 25 and Backlash. Steamboat said:
"Vince knew that was my style of training. I worked with Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt. Those guys have come along and are doing very well now. With Jericho, I think he went to Vince and said, 'I'd like to try something with Ricky' and they came to me and was like, 'Well, it isn't like I haven't been in the ring for 20 years. I'm still getting in the ring every day. I could see it in [Jericho's] demeanor about making sure that I wasn't going to be out there to embarrass myself and having fans say I should have stayed retired. He was very conscious about making sure I would have a good showing."
Chris Jericho was Steamboat's biggest fan, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to suggest that the feud was a boyhood dream come true.
#22 Chris Jericho: The Man of 1004 Holds
WWE and AEW fans have seen The List of Jericho and The Lexicon of Le Champion, but before all that, Chris Jericho was the man who had a 1004 holds and he had a list to prove it.
This was during the height of his feud with Dean Malenko for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. Malenko was known as "The Man of 1000 Holds", but Jericho one-upped saying he knew a few more. On Monday Nitro, Chris Jericho unveiled a "long" list and started listing those holds and didn't stop. They went to commercial, and he was still going when they came back.
On an episode of Talk Is Jericho, Jericho revealed Disco Inferno (Glenn Gilbertti) gave the idea. They said:
Jericho: One of the most famous things that people reference to this day is my man of 1,004 holds promo in Chicago. This was your idea.
Gilbertti: Right, it was my idea. When we come up with an idea like that, everybody kind of wants credit for it. Remember when we were coming up with a list of names to use for holds and stuff? (Mark) Madden, to this day, claims it was his idea.
Most ideas indeed come from the unlikeliest places, but perhaps, it spawned Jericho's love of lists later in his career.
