Chris Jericho looks back on his WWE debut.
Chris Jericho made his WWE debut in 1999, confronting The Rock after the countdown clock hit zero. Though Jericho was known from his time in WCW, Jericho made sure to introduce himself to the live audience.
"I thought it was very important to introduce myself in case somebody didn't know me. That's something we don't do a lot of in AEW at times. When we just bring somebody in. 'Oh my gosh, it's Zack Sabre Jr. Ah!' 'Who?' If you go back and watch my very first promo on October 2, 2019, which was the very first Dynamite, I said, 'My name is Chris Jericho.' Just in case there is somebody who might not know me. In 1999, which was 20 years earlier, just in case people didn't know me, of course a lot of people did know me because there is tribalism, 'We watch WCW. We watch WWE.' I let people know who I was and what I was there to do," Jericho said on Talk Is Jericho.
Though Jericho introduced himself, The Rock still asked him for his name.
Jericho is the reigning FTW Champion in AEW.
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