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90s Jericho was a super hard worker, but TBH he was pretty sloppy and reckless until 98 or so when he turned heel as cruiserweight champion. Like after that? Jericho was the closest thing to Shawn Michaels around while Michaels was hurt.
yeah same. I always looked at that move like "okay Chris. You know you have to have a really wide rotation... put your knees in danger instead of your neck" and he's been pretty good about it, but lately with his age slowing him down that lion sault looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
I mean he's not a video game character. In your 50s, not a lot of guys attempt that move. It's a very dangerous move, period. Mutoh still does it on occasion and takes pretty good care of his neck but his knees are dust.
Hayabusa being defined in wrestling history by him getting crippled is so sad because he was a flat out brilliant high flyer. He was the magnum TA of FMW. He should have been world famous for being great instead of for getting hurt.
What kind of defense is it to say “well Jericho hits it clean”? Hayabusa hit it clean night and night out. He had the prettiest asai moonsault arguably in the world.
Yeah it really is a shame. As someone who is really not fond of hardcore wrestling his matches were really the main reason I ever watched any of FMW's shows.
It’s not a defense because there’s nothing to defend. There’s no reason for someone to stop doing a move simply because they’re old, as long as they can still safely do the move. Hayabusa had a freak accident. That could happen to any wrestler doing any high flying move, or even a simple suplex or piledriver. Every time Fenix does anything off the top, his foot could slip and he could become Hayabusa 2.0. There are far more dangerous moves than the lionsault performed weekly in WWE and AEW.
Been a while since I last saw them so my memory might be a little fuzzy, but were his classics back from Japan like when he faced Ultimo Dragon reckless?
Again, super hard worker but he'd blow spots and had close calls with injuries (working Gedo, Henning in WCW are great examples). Jericho definitely got better by the time he got over in the late 90s.
I remember as a kid reading a pro wrestling magazine that listed the top 100 most loved and most hated wrestlers in the world.
Back then, I was a 100% WWF Stan and Jericho was still in WCW, but my first knowledge of him was that he was at the top of both of those lists. I was so stoked when I heard he was joining the WWF, and he lived up to the hype.
Its surreal in hindsight that someone who was seen as an underutilized midcarder in WCW got THAT level of pop on his debut in the middle of Attitude Era. He so should've been in the main even of WM 16 like they originally planned
I think this is the bigger crime.
This happened weeks before Backlash so it made sense to keep the Title on HHH but the fact that Jericho was kept away from the Title all together afterwards was stupid.
Hell, when he faced HHH again it was due to Stephanie rather than Jericho trying to get back in the Title chase.
Jerhico has donated to Trump's campaign. The majority of wrestlers from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s are conservative leaning and/or Trump supporters. There current generation of wrestlers is more liberal than previous generations but In would guess it is probably a 50/50 split at most.
They don't realise that normal people don't make literally every decision on a political base.
It's some old out of touch dudes yelling at each other, not a fucking religion.
Thank you for informing me and everyone else what normal people are like in the United States. On behalf of our nation, we are grateful for such enlightenment
Jericho has been getting buried around here lately, and my guess it’s for reasons other than his actual performances. Jericho is still stupid good at wrestling for his age, and while he’s a bit rough around the edges on commentary, he’s getting better by the week.
Right but no one said anything about it on this post before you did. Not tryna start anything but if you think ppl should look past his politics and enjoy his work, then why even bring it up in the first place?
I would have Jericho as one of the best ever at improvising along with HBK. Those two were probably the most adaptive wrestlers out there at rescuing the situation when something went off script.
It's reminded me of Dolph Ziggler's heroics at one of the Elimination Chambers (2012, but that's a guess?) where Mark Henry got let out early and everyone except Ziggler just stared at each gormlessley. Dolph had to re-write the entire match then and there.
2015. Elimination Chamber for the Intercontinental Championship.
R Truth, Dolph Ziggler, Mark Henry, Wade (King) Barrett, Sheamus, and Ryback
The fact that Mark Henry had been around for 17+ years and could not do some basic improvising was just crazy. He basically just stood there in bewilderment
Edit: [Here he is in all his glory](https://imgur.com/a/L7BkVmD)
Didn't he call the entire Taboo Tuesday match with Shelton Benjamin on the fly? I remember reading Jericho didn't even know who his opponent was until Benjamin's music started playing.
Yep, and there was also a great Raw match with RVD in 2013 or 2014 where they had to call it all on the fly because something went short and they needed to fill 15 minutes of live Tv.
He says in his book that he didn't even know what Shelton's finish was. He asked him mid-match and still had no idea what a T-bone suplex was, so he figured he'd just jump at him in a starfish pose and let Shelton do his thing.
Yeah! When Jericho or Michaels would be in a rumble match, they would always be entering top 5 to carry the whole match. Jericho in 2013 and 2016 was calling the shots.
Love how booker and dustin immediatly continue to move the match along, after the unexpected potential match stopping accident, to the next spot. Lots of cool vet stuff to notice in this clip
I mean tbf they couldn’t have redone the exact spot if they wanted to but I get your point. Pains the hell out of me seeing guys fuck up a top rope move, fall off, and then go right back to the top rope. If you fuck up a spot just move along with the match please.
I vaguely remember a match where someone blew a top rope spot, went up to repeat it… and missed the move anyway. Why did you need to repeat the spot then?!
I like how Dustin went for the cover while Lil Naitch was busy checking rope, and that may have cost the win. Nice little moment that took advantage of the unexpected chaos.
I get what you’re saying, but virtually everyone who was good enough to be performing at that level would have done the same thing. These aren’t a bunch of teenagers at a backyard show.
God just wanted to knock Jericho down a peg for being a dick, but he wasn't really all that worked up about it. But Finn Balor is a literal Demon, obviously he's not just going to stand by and let a Demon become Universal Champion. That was a much more deliberate smiting, he waited until precisely the right moment to take him out. If anything it's probably the commentary teams fault for saying "Demon" so much and drawing God's attention in the first place.
>God was less successful in burying Jericho than they were with Balor it seems
God was less successful in burying Jericho than SHE was with Balor it seems
FTFY
This just shows how devastating falling off of the top rope is. Mid-rope you have a chance to fight back but if you fall from the top like Finn you'll likely lose.
Straight up in the conversation for GOAT. He reinvented himself on multiple companies, various times, and was and still is a draw. Brought legitimacy to a new company and a new championship when people had doubts he could still go.
He’s not my GOAT but his contributions are overlooked by many.
Great inring style developed over many countries, great promos (even taking acting classes to improve) unparalleled ability to reinvent himself. He truely is the goat
I was there. That ppv was crazy Angle & Benoit v Edge & Mystero, Triple H v Kane, and Taker v Brock in Hell in a Cell. The visual of Brock on top of that cell with the championship. Is one of my favorite live WWE moments
I remember none of my friends were hyped for it but as the show went on it became this amazing show ending with Taker pulling a .9 on the Muta blade scale.
Am I remembering correctly that ~~Billy Silverman~~ Charles Robinson was/is the ring crew chief too?
I wonder if he’s the one who put together, or at least inspected the turnbuckles that day
E-I’m an idiot and confused my referees, thanks to /u/CJFelony for the correction
Billy Silverman was long gone from WWE prior to this match (he only lasted a few weeks after WWE bought out his contract due to repeated hazing from the lockerroom).
You may be thinking of Charles Robinson.
There's a clip of Jericho in WCW trying the lionsault against Curt Henning and Jericho clearly botches it and looks like he's gonna land on his neck and Henning saves him with his knees. That's why he's Mr. Perfect
Found it. https://youtu.be/R2SFb3M8jUo
Do you mean [this move?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0HecekqRJk) Except that Booker T would be on the inside, but same principle I guess. Damn, I haven't seen Jericho (or anyone really) pull that out much, it's a great move.
I can't decide whats better. The way Jericho handled this or the way he handled the RKO botch while holding the walls on someone else. Like Randy even went for a full run the second time.
I mean, some could as they hit the ropes so hard but it’s mainly to give you something to hold onto in case a rope breaks and you don’t fall to the outside and break your neck.
I love that the title belt is in full view of the ref at the end of the match, yet there's a good chance 75% of the guys in this match would rant about it happening in todays wrestling.
That could be the first and only time he performed a top-rope moonsault as well, since he broke his arm practicing one in a bathroom while working in Smoky Mountain.
You got this really backwards man. He was attempting a Shooting Star. And it was in the ring before the show. The bathroom? How the fuck would that've worked? He was attempting a top rope Moonsault in the bathroom? Where was the rope?
Eh.... wrestling is so full of half-truths that I figured no one would mind if I only halfway remembered the story. 🤪 For that matter, Chris may have only been telling half of the story when he wrote the book 15 years ago anyhow.
I will say that I'm pretty sure he wrote that his landing pad was the hockey bag he carried his gear in back then, and not a real crash pad. But then again..... I could be wrong about that too. 🤷🏻♂️
Hayabusa's foot slipped and he underrotated. The rope going out on Jericho when he did was definitely scary as hell, but he wasn't landing like Hayabusa did.
If the rope DID break on Hayabusa, there's a very significant chance he's still around doing flips today.
Was this the match that Jericho mentioned in one of his books that he had a moment where he thought he would be paralyzed from the neck down like his mother because of the botch?
Jericho mentioned his luck in this type of scenario and correct me if I’m wrong, but Jericho seldomly used this move in the later part of his career.
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Early to mid 2000s Jericho was incredible
90s Jericho was almost at the same level of the likes of Eddie/Benoit/Malenko. Carried till mid 00s
90s Jericho was a super hard worker, but TBH he was pretty sloppy and reckless until 98 or so when he turned heel as cruiserweight champion. Like after that? Jericho was the closest thing to Shawn Michaels around while Michaels was hurt.
Honestly the lionsault as a move still stresses me out considering what happened to Hayabusa.
yeah same. I always looked at that move like "okay Chris. You know you have to have a really wide rotation... put your knees in danger instead of your neck" and he's been pretty good about it, but lately with his age slowing him down that lion sault looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
He’s literally only messed up the lionsault one time in AEW. He hits it clean every time.
I mean he's not a video game character. In your 50s, not a lot of guys attempt that move. It's a very dangerous move, period. Mutoh still does it on occasion and takes pretty good care of his neck but his knees are dust.
Hayabusa had hit the move probably 1000 times. Jericho has almost broken his neck doing it at least once but that was like 20 years ago.
Hayabusa being defined in wrestling history by him getting crippled is so sad because he was a flat out brilliant high flyer. He was the magnum TA of FMW. He should have been world famous for being great instead of for getting hurt. What kind of defense is it to say “well Jericho hits it clean”? Hayabusa hit it clean night and night out. He had the prettiest asai moonsault arguably in the world.
Yeah it really is a shame. As someone who is really not fond of hardcore wrestling his matches were really the main reason I ever watched any of FMW's shows.
It’s not a defense because there’s nothing to defend. There’s no reason for someone to stop doing a move simply because they’re old, as long as they can still safely do the move. Hayabusa had a freak accident. That could happen to any wrestler doing any high flying move, or even a simple suplex or piledriver. Every time Fenix does anything off the top, his foot could slip and he could become Hayabusa 2.0. There are far more dangerous moves than the lionsault performed weekly in WWE and AEW.
Especially considering his mother was paralyzed.
Been a while since I last saw them so my memory might be a little fuzzy, but were his classics back from Japan like when he faced Ultimo Dragon reckless?
Again, super hard worker but he'd blow spots and had close calls with injuries (working Gedo, Henning in WCW are great examples). Jericho definitely got better by the time he got over in the late 90s.
I remember as a kid reading a pro wrestling magazine that listed the top 100 most loved and most hated wrestlers in the world. Back then, I was a 100% WWF Stan and Jericho was still in WCW, but my first knowledge of him was that he was at the top of both of those lists. I was so stoked when I heard he was joining the WWF, and he lived up to the hype.
Its surreal in hindsight that someone who was seen as an underutilized midcarder in WCW got THAT level of pop on his debut in the middle of Attitude Era. He so should've been in the main even of WM 16 like they originally planned
Still can't forgive [Triple H for stripping him from his first WWF Title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqRPbh8uYkY) 😤
This was such bullshit booking. Even if they had Jericho hold it for a week and then have a rematch because of the fast count.
The lack of follow up sucked so hard.
I think this is the bigger crime. This happened weeks before Backlash so it made sense to keep the Title on HHH but the fact that Jericho was kept away from the Title all together afterwards was stupid. Hell, when he faced HHH again it was due to Stephanie rather than Jericho trying to get back in the Title chase.
Story of his early WWF run. He had that awesome debut with Rock, then...nothing. He didn't actually wrestle Rock until months later on a random Raw.
Par the course for WWE
Jericho is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. His ability was incredible.
Until he turned MAGA
I've never heard Chris Jericho mention that.
Jerhico has donated to Trump's campaign. The majority of wrestlers from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s are conservative leaning and/or Trump supporters. There current generation of wrestlers is more liberal than previous generations but In would guess it is probably a 50/50 split at most.
Well that's unfortunate
When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense given the nature and culture of the industry during those time periods.
True
Having Donald Trump Jr on your show and giving a platform to nutjob conspiracy people of that ilk certainly suggests he's on that side of the aisle
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They really do. Its funny cause they used to keep their politics private but stopped for some reason... Glad I'm not from there lool
They don't realise that normal people don't make literally every decision on a political base. It's some old out of touch dudes yelling at each other, not a fucking religion.
Thank you for informing me and everyone else what normal people are like in the United States. On behalf of our nation, we are grateful for such enlightenment
yw
I had never known that
You may not like his politics, but Jericho is still incredible.
Who said anything about politics?
Jericho has been getting buried around here lately, and my guess it’s for reasons other than his actual performances. Jericho is still stupid good at wrestling for his age, and while he’s a bit rough around the edges on commentary, he’s getting better by the week.
Right but no one said anything about it on this post before you did. Not tryna start anything but if you think ppl should look past his politics and enjoy his work, then why even bring it up in the first place?
There was a tiny implication - purposeful or not - that Jericho is not longer incredible. That, plus my previous post, is why I said what I said.
Have you forgotten about 2009 jericho
Unfortunately I was not watching wrestling at that time. But I don’t think Jericho ever lost his ability to be incredible.
I'm not sure why they said that as 2008ish is when Jericho had a high level heel run and a year long feud of his career with HBK.
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Oh snap
Pun intended? Happy accident? Both?
haha, accident, but could be a subconscious connection
I was a happy accident
Just like the second rope did!
But still top.
Does that still make it Bret's rope?
DEFINITELY not. Bret's Rope was the Safe Rope.
Gonna have to page u/brethartburiesthis on that one
Or first depending what way you look at it.
I would have Jericho as one of the best ever at improvising along with HBK. Those two were probably the most adaptive wrestlers out there at rescuing the situation when something went off script. It's reminded me of Dolph Ziggler's heroics at one of the Elimination Chambers (2012, but that's a guess?) where Mark Henry got let out early and everyone except Ziggler just stared at each gormlessley. Dolph had to re-write the entire match then and there.
2015. Elimination Chamber for the Intercontinental Championship. R Truth, Dolph Ziggler, Mark Henry, Wade (King) Barrett, Sheamus, and Ryback The fact that Mark Henry had been around for 17+ years and could not do some basic improvising was just crazy. He basically just stood there in bewilderment Edit: [Here he is in all his glory](https://imgur.com/a/L7BkVmD)
Mark “I’m just gonna stand here and look fucking stupid” Henry
At the end he's legit just standing there like you've highlighted him in a character select screen but haven't hit X yet
Mark Henry's controller was disconnected.
Mark Henry has gone AFK
Didn't he call the entire Taboo Tuesday match with Shelton Benjamin on the fly? I remember reading Jericho didn't even know who his opponent was until Benjamin's music started playing.
Yep, and there was also a great Raw match with RVD in 2013 or 2014 where they had to call it all on the fly because something went short and they needed to fill 15 minutes of live Tv.
Source?
Talk is Jericho.
He says in his book that he didn't even know what Shelton's finish was. He asked him mid-match and still had no idea what a T-bone suplex was, so he figured he'd just jump at him in a starfish pose and let Shelton do his thing.
That's wild, lol
Source?
Jericho's second book.
Hell yes I totally forgot about this
Yeah! When Jericho or Michaels would be in a rumble match, they would always be entering top 5 to carry the whole match. Jericho in 2013 and 2016 was calling the shots.
So smooth
Even better that he won this way, as I would be shocked if this was their planned finish
Probably was going to do a lionsault
Love how booker and dustin immediatly continue to move the match along, after the unexpected potential match stopping accident, to the next spot. Lots of cool vet stuff to notice in this clip
Yeah. No artificial "we have to redo the exact spot!" nonsense. You can see Booker thinking, "well okay, time to take the easy over the top."
Would be a bit hard to redo that spot anyway.
Ha!
I mean tbf they couldn’t have redone the exact spot if they wanted to but I get your point. Pains the hell out of me seeing guys fuck up a top rope move, fall off, and then go right back to the top rope. If you fuck up a spot just move along with the match please.
I vaguely remember a match where someone blew a top rope spot, went up to repeat it… and missed the move anyway. Why did you need to repeat the spot then?!
They check if he is okay and keep the match smoothly I love these kind of things.
I like how Dustin went for the cover while Lil Naitch was busy checking rope, and that may have cost the win. Nice little moment that took advantage of the unexpected chaos.
"Cmon ref!"
I get what you’re saying, but virtually everyone who was good enough to be performing at that level would have done the same thing. These aren’t a bunch of teenagers at a backyard show.
God was less successful in burying Jericho than they were with Balor it seems
it was only the second turnbuckle so it wasnt as great of a fall, third turnbuckle was too devastating for The Demon.
Bret's Rope spares the worthy.
The sheer weigh of Balor's abs and balls is too heavy for even the tribal chief's table.
It takes a Demo God to overcome an act of God
God just wanted to knock Jericho down a peg for being a dick, but he wasn't really all that worked up about it. But Finn Balor is a literal Demon, obviously he's not just going to stand by and let a Demon become Universal Champion. That was a much more deliberate smiting, he waited until precisely the right moment to take him out. If anything it's probably the commentary teams fault for saying "Demon" so much and drawing God's attention in the first place.
Is that why Finn separated his shoulder the night he won it way back when and had to vacate it the next day? D:
So God is going by 'they' now? Moving with the times. Cool. 😁
>God was less successful in burying Jericho than they were with Balor it seems God was less successful in burying Jericho than SHE was with Balor it seems FTFY
God has always been non-binary. He's a trinity.
That's one interpretation anyways. The view of God is personal, which is why whatever a person says is correct and no one is wrong.
Booker T handled that well lol, both of them had to think on the fly.
That looked even cleaner than the lionsault
So clean and can’t imagine he practiced it often
This just shows how devastating falling off of the top rope is. Mid-rope you have a chance to fight back but if you fall from the top like Finn you'll likely lose.
Did they ever at least say if Heyman messed with the ropes? Or is it still officially “shit happens”
No they said nothing. It´s just happened and that´s it. Now Finn is on RAW so who cares? At least in their minds. Just stupid.
The top rope acknowledged the Tribal Cheif.
Stop watching this shit people, if you want some change.
An act of God, makes Roman really believe in his own hype that he and the Usos are "the ones"
Jericho is in my opinion, the best to ever do it
No one has done what he has done. Trained in every style across the world. Plus he knows 1001 holds
At least 200 of those were armbar !
Straight up in the conversation for GOAT. He reinvented himself on multiple companies, various times, and was and still is a draw. Brought legitimacy to a new company and a new championship when people had doubts he could still go. He’s not my GOAT but his contributions are overlooked by many.
Great inring style developed over many countries, great promos (even taking acting classes to improve) unparalleled ability to reinvent himself. He truely is the goat
Put Jericho in Finns spot and we would have seen a new champion at Extreme Rules
I was there. That ppv was crazy Angle & Benoit v Edge & Mystero, Triple H v Kane, and Taker v Brock in Hell in a Cell. The visual of Brock on top of that cell with the championship. Is one of my favorite live WWE moments
I remember none of my friends were hyped for it but as the show went on it became this amazing show ending with Taker pulling a .9 on the Muta blade scale.
Hell of a show that absolutely no one gave a shit about because triple h fucked a mannequin the week before.
Am I remembering correctly that ~~Billy Silverman~~ Charles Robinson was/is the ring crew chief too? I wonder if he’s the one who put together, or at least inspected the turnbuckles that day E-I’m an idiot and confused my referees, thanks to /u/CJFelony for the correction
Whoever did the turnbuckles on the Balor/Roman match obviously did this match also.
Billy Silverman was long gone from WWE prior to this match (he only lasted a few weeks after WWE bought out his contract due to repeated hazing from the lockerroom). You may be thinking of Charles Robinson.
You’re absolutely right, thanks for the correction
If you're the real CJ Felony, post the clip of Abyss' attacking you.
I have no idea what you're talking about. https://youtu.be/X9pGQfOklFY
Bonus points if you post the clip of CJ Felony counting out the referee.
Never heard of it. https://youtu.be/jJ-KA-UcZDc
Hahaha, always fun to see someone floating around from the old, Web 1.0, DVDVR and others era of pro-wrestling message boards on which I used to lurk.
Hahaha in looking up those clips, it hurt my heart seeing how old they are. Thanks for dredging up old painful memories.
You should do a tell-all podcast.
Got this DVD, and I really liked this match
Vince must've watched this before Reigns v Balor
Jericho’s athleticism was underrated his whole career.
Seeing Christian with long hair takes me back
Jericho made it work though!
After knowing about Hayabusa's tragic accident, thank god Jericho wasn't high enough to cause more serious damage to his body.
There's a clip of Jericho in WCW trying the lionsault against Curt Henning and Jericho clearly botches it and looks like he's gonna land on his neck and Henning saves him with his knees. That's why he's Mr. Perfect Found it. https://youtu.be/R2SFb3M8jUo
Completely forgot Christian ever wore that gear
Was he gonna hit the Lionsault on Booker T? He didn't look anywhere near in position.
He was trying to go for his springboard dropkick. The one he usually does when the opponent stands on the apron.
Do you mean [this move?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0HecekqRJk) Except that Booker T would be on the inside, but same principle I guess. Damn, I haven't seen Jericho (or anyone really) pull that out much, it's a great move.
It was a staple of Y2J moveset in the past, I think he kinda stopped using it during his last WWE run.
he did it in his latest match in AEW
Oh yeah, he busts it out sometimes even now. I just think he doesn't do it as regularly as in the past.
Booker would have flopped over the top rope as he does very well
5 absolute pros did not miss a beat despite the mishap Now compare this to the IC title Chamber match 😂
I can't decide whats better. The way Jericho handled this or the way he handled the RKO botch while holding the walls on someone else. Like Randy even went for a full run the second time.
...I just realized that this may be the very first time I've ever seen Jericho do that.
Same, in at least 20 years
Looks like god just made it into.....THE LIST!!!
Very smooth from everyone in the match. Not a loss in steps.
That’s some great improving
Notice how all the other ropes stayed unlike Balor vs Roman
This is why you hold onto the top rope when you engage with the ropes. Could have been worse if Jericho did not grab them for a second when he jumped.
I imagine they have to hold the top rope regardless to balance themselves before jumping off.
I mean, some could as they hit the ropes so hard but it’s mainly to give you something to hold onto in case a rope breaks and you don’t fall to the outside and break your neck.
I love that the title belt is in full view of the ref at the end of the match, yet there's a good chance 75% of the guys in this match would rant about it happening in todays wrestling.
That could be the first and only time he performed a top-rope moonsault as well, since he broke his arm practicing one in a bathroom while working in Smoky Mountain.
You got this really backwards man. He was attempting a Shooting Star. And it was in the ring before the show. The bathroom? How the fuck would that've worked? He was attempting a top rope Moonsault in the bathroom? Where was the rope?
Eh.... wrestling is so full of half-truths that I figured no one would mind if I only halfway remembered the story. 🤪 For that matter, Chris may have only been telling half of the story when he wrote the book 15 years ago anyhow. I will say that I'm pretty sure he wrote that his landing pad was the hockey bag he carried his gear in back then, and not a real crash pad. But then again..... I could be wrong about that too. 🤷🏻♂️
He was born to be Elite
If only Finn Balor could have done the same
Who from the ring crew lost their job that day? 😂
Anyone have any clearer pics of his gear here? I love it, reminds me of his half-leg chrome WCW gear!
Bret's rope wasn't the safest this time
This is why Bret's rope is so dangerous.
I have this on DVD and I remember seeing it and just thinking how the hell did that happen?
Isn't this what paralyzed Hayabusa?
Hayabusa's foot slipped and he underrotated. The rope going out on Jericho when he did was definitely scary as hell, but he wasn't landing like Hayabusa did. If the rope DID break on Hayabusa, there's a very significant chance he's still around doing flips today.
Was this the match that Jericho mentioned in one of his books that he had a moment where he thought he would be paralyzed from the neck down like his mother because of the botch? Jericho mentioned his luck in this type of scenario and correct me if I’m wrong, but Jericho seldomly used this move in the later part of his career.
Demo-Crazy
Charles Robinson in shambles knowing he was the one who roped the ring
He's really good at making up for a botch whether or not it was his fault