I jotted down my thoughts on Jericho’s re-debut on Monday night. I reached out to the FGB crew for their thoughts on Jericho’s segment. The crew had mixed feelings.

Big D
Embarrassing.

Alan
Very Kaufmann-esque. I’d say he’ll be getting properly hated in a few weeks if he sticks to it. I’m not sure whether the videos being so irrelevant was bad or a stroke of genius.

Cadillac Don
After reading both of Jericho’s books recently, I can tell a lot of thought was put towards this re-debut.

I rather enjoyed the entire segment because it started out like his WWE debut, but by the end you can see how it somewhat correlates to the video. If he was being seen as the boy in the video, does that mean there’s a woman out there pulling the strings? Perhaps one who happens to be a disgusting, dirty, filthy, ugly, two dollar, bottom-feeding, trashbag ho?

Duan
During Jericho’s last run, I do think he was the top heel and best performer overall in the company. The trouble with doing a gimmick like this is that it requires patience from your audience.

I see it as an idea lost to the past. It might rile up a live crowd, and I’m sure at one point it would have worked with a TV audience to, but to me nowadays this was channel changing heat. It didn’t make for good TV in my opinion. It was cheap, it was irritating, and it was a waste of time. I’m sure people will hate him after a few weeks of this, but do you want people tuning out during your new big signings segments? Probably not. Will WWE have the patience to see it through if it does start losing them viewers? I doubt it. This one will die fast.

Here’s the video again in case you missed it:

Sonnen’s piece was short, but still entertaining.

I’m not sure all of the videos building up his return necessarily made sense, but maybe that was the point. Whoever “she” is will hopefully be unveiled and hopefully it won’t be Stephanie McMahon.

It’s not clear what his character is going to be, but I do have my guesses. I think Jericho’s new character is going to be a super obnoxious wannabe babyface who can’t understand why the crowd doesn’t cheer him. I think he’s going to play up the rockstar aspect of his life, as evidenced by the horrendous jacket he wore. He’s really the anti of CM Punk’s character which bring’s Punk’s character sort of full circle by WrestleMania if that’s what they’re going to do.

The segment was long and awkward and I’m sure many people changed the channel because it was so long. It was the worst Hulk Hogan ovation you’ve ever seen.

Take a look for yourself if you missed it.