Chris Jericho is the man of 1,000 gimmicks and back in 2016 he introduced the world to the List of Jericho. The List of Jericho quickly became one of the most popular gimmicks in all of wrestling at the time and it’s something that fans still reference to this very day.
Jericho didn’t come up with the idea all on his own as former WWE writer Jimmy Jacobs contributed to the List of Jericho in a big way, and he recently explained during an appearance on McGuire on Wrestling how it all came together.
“We had a bit on Raw. We were in Memphis and Jericho was gonna come out and air his grievances against Mick Foley. So we thought, well, he should have a list of grievances, like a physical list. He’s gonna have grievances. Well, he should have like a physical list.
Then I thought about in real life, Steve Corino has the Corino’s s**t list, right? The people who in his life and his career they make his list, they’re like dead to him. So I thought, what if Jericho has the same sort of thing? Except he’s super petty and just like, puts all sorts of people on it for all different reasons.”
Jacobs went on to say that when he pitched the idea to Chris Jericho the former Undisputed Champion got it right away and started to add his own ideas to the concept.
“I pitched it to Chris for Raw. I pitched it to him and he went to me ‘So you’re talking about doing this more than just a night.’ I’m like ‘Yeah dude, this can be your thing. You’ve been doing the Gift to Jericho – Drink it in Man! This could be like the List of Jericho.’ He got it right away and he added on to it.
He added the having the big clipboard. He added of course the way it was delivered with a click of the pen and all that sort of stuff. So he really brought it to life. But it was a really fun time. Getting a thing that just hit the bull’s eye. For a while that was [the thing] that will get the biggest reactions at Raw. When Chris Jericho puts your name on the list that was like, that’s what you build to.”
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