Fish Out of Water

In the 2004 elections the WWE invited the Presidential candidates, John Kerry and President George W. Bush, to debate in front of a live WWE audience. As you may have guessed( or remembered ), it didn't happen. This election cycle is a little different. Rather than debate, the candidates were invited to submit a video to address the WWE fans on Monday Night Raw. This must have seemed more politically safe because the three major party candidatates each has a video this past Monday. I must say, they were all out of their element. ...

To me they each seemed out of their element. The stream of catch phrases was a little annoying( one or two is enough ). I also feel that they didn't respect the fans intelligence enough, or at least whoever wrote the speeches didn't. Sure, the WWE fans like catch phrases - but only ones that they have latched on too from people who have earned the fans respect. I'm impressed that they took the "political" chance, but they still need some work.

It would be great to see how a former wrestler running for office would handled the situation. There always seems to be a rumor that Jesse Ventura will make a run, I'm sure his speech would have been much more audience appropriate. I keep wondering, "How would I have done it different?"

For a wrestler's perspective, here is JBL on Fox news:

Thank you Ric

My favorite wrestler is Triple H. Triple H's favorite wrestler is Ric Flair. Ric Flair retired after Wrestlemania so some people have put together some tribute to him. I thought it would be a good idea to share those with you here. ...

And the WWE put all of this together into a montage that made me want to make this post:

SAVE_US.Y2J

And finally, the payoff:

In Honor of the Return

In honor of the Jericho return tonight and the Edge return last night, here is a funny video of Jericho and Edge along with another favorite Christian. Of course, some of the funniest Jericho bits involve Stephanie Mchmahon.

Jericho Returns(?)

Well, there was one special return at Sunday's Survivor Series Pay Per View. As foretold by the ads for the event, Edge showed up and made his presence felt. But enough of that for now, today is the last day of the countdown to Jericho's return to the WWE. Since this is his 2nd Coming, let's take a look at the first countdown to Y2J!

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Jericho & Survivor Series

It's a stretch but since Survivor series is today I thought I would post a video of something Survivor Series related for today's Jericho Countdown post.

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And since we are looking at Jericho from the days of the Alliance versus the WWF/E, here's another humorous promo of Jericho and Stephanie during that tumultuous time ( ...Congratulations Louie! ).

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Jericho - Desire

The WWE's Desire promos were great, especially if you like the superstar. So here is Chris Jericho's Desire video.
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And here is a fan created desire video to a different tune.

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Friday Humor at McDonald's

Continuing the countdown to Y2J with this little unique find of Jericho working a McDonald's
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Since he mentioned Celebrity Duets, I thought I'd post some videos of that performance as well. With LeAnne Womack

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With Peter Frampton

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After being voted off

Y2J Humor

In honor of Jericho's return to the WWE, here's a taste of the promo skills we can look forward to.

Next_Monday

Now it appears that the answer is clear.
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It seems that with one week left until the big payoff for the "break the code" promos WWE has decided to lay their cards out on the table. With much clearer messages like 6_Days, 23_Hours, 33_Minutes and of course Next_Monday they have let us know that yes, it will all be revealed next Monday. With other messages like X + 1 = Y, J = 9 + 1 ^* and of course BREAK_THE_WALLS instead of BREAK_THE_CODE have let us know that yes, it is Chris Jericho coming back.

Maybe it is the heel in me, but with this clear communication being used to drive up live viewership, it would be awesome if it wasn't Jericho. The date is still important, but having anyone else come out would be a total swerve. It would have to somehow make sense, and it would have to be someone with a powerful persona and presence. The only thing I can think of would be the Rock, but I don't think that is or even should happen. He's got a decent acting career going on and he has enough credibility now to do some decent films.

All the smarks out there need a good shakeup. It would be better than when Test faked an injury to win a match, and the services of Stacy Keibler. They made it look real, with all the "secret signals" from the refs to the back. I think the doctor even came out. It was a thing of beuty. On a lighter level they could tease the swerve early on in the show with any other wrestler who hasn't been seen in a while. Then in the last half hour of Raw, have Jericho actually return and show us the truth behind the code, while having him take out this lucky wrestler who gets a massive heel push with all his signature moves. That's it, close the show and good night :)

When he comes back, maybe it will look like this:

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^*Where's the 2 in Y2J? If they thought about it, which is a high probability
X + 1 = Y: X is the Roman Numeral for 10. 10 plus 1 is 11. 1 + 1 is 2
J = 9 + 1: 9 + 1 = 10 and there are 10 types of people in the world.