11. Y2J Trolls The Crowd
Many of the moments on this list are incidents of extreme emotion, when wrestlers were genuinely unable to hold back their body’s natural responses to how they were feeling. A few of them involved wrestlers using that emotion to their dastardly advantage, and none have gone further than Chris Jericho in this regard. Jericho has been around WWE for decades now, and is just as known for his exploits in the ring and on the microphone as he is for his regularly bombastic and memorable returns from hiatus. In early 2012, Jericho came back from a tour with his band through a series of cryptic and confusing vignettes, promising something big on January 2, 2012. Y2J made his epic return on that night, but merely took in the crowd’s applause and didn’t say a word.
The next week, Jericho once again returned to the ring, and this time, fans were hoping he would have something to say. Instead, Y2J once again soaked in the fan response for as long as possible, even starting to fake tears at the idea that his audience would be so happy to see him. Ironically, it was about the same time Jericho pretended to cry that many fans started to catch on to his trolling, and a few boos started to permeate through the crowd. Luckily, Jericho was emotional enough that he needed to make his exit before any more of his adoring public could turn on him.
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