Chris Jericho's mystery partner was revealed at Night of Champions, and the wrestling world collectively shrugged their shoulders.
Chris Jericho's Mystery Partner
At the Bash, Chris Jericho made headlines when he and Edge shockingly won the WWE Undisputed Tag Team Championship in a match that they were not advertised to be involved in.
By combining two of the top heels in the entire wrestling world into a single unit, WWE had managed to create a buzz within the internet wrestling community. Fans were chatting all over the place, wondering just how far these guys are going to go.
Unfortunately, though, we may never know just how great Edge and Chris Jericho could have been as a tandem. Edge suffered a serious injury that will require him to miss several months of action.
Plans had to be changed.
WWE decided to go with the "mystery partner" route, which meant that wrestling fans would spend hours upon hours trying to guess who he would choose as Edge's replacement.
After weeks of speculation, Chris Jericho finally unveiled his mystery partner.
The mystery partner is the Big Show.
Big Show? Big Deal
To be honest with you, there wasn't a lot of excitement when it was revealed that it was the Big Show who would be Chris Jericho's partner.
Nothing against the guy, but he's treading dangerously close to being in the same zone as Kane, where every feud that he's involved with ends up sapping away any and all momentum.
The blame doesn't fall completely on the Big Show. The way he's been used in the past year hasn't exactly made the audience yearn to see him.
It also doesn't help that wrestling fans from across the world were able to come up with some pretty good ideas as to who should have been the mystery partner.
Names like Dolph Ziggler, Chris Masters, Jack Swagger, and the Miz were all thrown out there, and there were some really great ideas behind each of these guys.
Not really sure that I recalled seeing the Big Show's name mentioned on any of the message boards that I browsed through.
That's a sign that wrestling fans didn't particularly want to see Big Show as the mystery partner.
What's Next?
Just because the fans didn't want to see it doesn't necessarily mean that this storyline is going to be a bust. As wrestling fans, we have been wrong on more than one occasion about storylines.
While it's true that the Big Show doesn't have a lot of interest and momentum right now, the same cannot be said for Chris Jericho, who still reigns as the most entertaining personality in WWE today.
Hopefully, some of Chris Jericho's momentum can rub off on the Big Show.
By having someone the size of the Big Show in his corner, Chris Jericho's character can then become an even bigger braggart, which should cause the fans to react even more to him.
Closing Thoughts
In Chris Jericho, we trust. The guy has been on a roll as of late. He's reaching heights that very few wrestlers have ever reached. He'll find a way to make the Big Show relevant again. |
