Top 10 moments of Chris Jericho's 30-year career

#8 Chris Jericho, the first-ever Undisputed WWF Champion

Jericho as the first-ever WWF Undisputed Champion

At the 2001 WWF pay-per-view Vengeance, Chris Jericho became the first-ever WWF Undisputed Champion, defeating the Rock and Stone Cole Steve Austin along the way to do so.

After Jericho made his emphatic WWF debut on RAW, he had to start at the bottom and work his way back up the ladder. He began by defeating Chyna for the Intercontinental Championship. Feuds with Benoit and Kurt Angle followed as he headed toward the main event level.

The Invasion angle took over the company and Jericho was a major player in it as WCW and ECW combined to take over WWF.

He would feud with The Rock over the WCW World Heavyweight Championship leading into Vengeance. He would defeat the "People's Champion" to regain the WCW World title and then immediately after, won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship from Stone Cold Steve Austin.

In one night, Chris Jericho defeated two of the biggest WWE Superstars in the company's history to unify both world titles and become the first-ever WWF Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion.

A brilliant and historical moment that Jericho still (jokingly) mentions to this day.

#7 Royal Rumble return

Jericho was a surprise entrant at the 2013 Royal Rumble

Chris Jericho began to hone his skills in planning his secret returns, a skill he would come to master wonderfully in the coming years. But it all started at Royal Rumble 2013.

In the previous year, Jericho had returned to WWE after a two-year absence. In August of 2012, Jericho would lose a WWE Contract vs. Money In The Bank Contract match against Dolph Ziggler and would have to leave the company.

Jericho was absent from WWE for over six months while he went on tour with his rock band Fozzy and no one was expecting him to return anytime soon. But Jericho and WWE used this assumption and planned a secret return, which was accomplished magnificently.

Dolph Ziggler, the man who kicked him out of WWE, was the first the entrant in the Royal Rumble. The "Show Off" and the fans eagerly awaited his first opponent. Break the Walls Down hit, and the crowd went wild for a goosebump-inducing pop and another epic Y2J moment.

#6 Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens' Festival of Friendship

The Festival of Friendship

During Kevin Owens' WWE Universal Championship run, he became best friends with Chris Jericho. The fellow Canadians had great chemistry and bonded over interfering in each other's matches and beating up Sami Zayn.

The celebration is ON for Best Friends @FightOwensFight and @IAmJericho! #RoyalRumble #UniversalTitle pic.twitter.com/55VesE4goQ

— WWE (@WWE) January 30, 2017

They would go on to become a formidable duo throughout their intertwining feuds with Zayn, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns.

The constant inference would result in Chris Jericho being suspended above the ring in a shark cage during Owens' championship match with Reigns at Royal Rumble 2017.

Their cocksure and over-confident attitudes inevitably got them into trouble. Chris Jericho would accept Goldberg's challenge for the Universal Championship on Owens' behalf. Sensing that he upset KO, Jericho organized the "Festival of Friendship" to show Owen's how good their friendship had become.

In true wrestling fashion, this drastically backfired and Owens attacked Chris Jericho when his name was revealed on his own hit list, The List of Jericho.

It was a genuinely shocking and heartbreaking moment. They had become one of the best parts of the 2016/17 in WWE because of their friendship and we all knew the breakup was coming. It was executed perfectly and made for another great moment in Chris Jericho's career.