[1998-06-14-WCW-Great American Bash] Chris Jericho vs Dean Malenko

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Last few minutes. Jericho has tights that say 1004! Crowd is VERY into this which is a testament to Jericho's heel work. Jericho says "You're nothing, just like your dead father" which causes Malenko to snap. He goes after Jericho with a chair and gets disqualified. They end up brawling into the backstage area and outside in traffic! Jericho finally hides in a building across the street. Fun!

[soup23]

Finish was fun with Jericho looking strong making the ropes on the Cloverleaf. I stand by my statement that Malenko should have won clean here. Him snapping was fine but I didn't think Malenko was the right person to convey the snapped portion that this storyline demanded.

[Migs]

Malenko did too much dragging and not enough beating, even if the brawl outside had some cool visuals.

[PeteF3]

Yeah, crazy brawls are so not Dean's forte--and his chairshots were pretty bad, too. This still has great heat and a really good closing stretch, and Jericho darting through traffic to a building across the street was fun.

[TravJ1979]

Yeah this feud is starting to drag with these silly brawls.

[dawho5]

Match was fine, but with too much brawling from Dean.  I'll agree that it's not his forte (nor Jericho's really).  I feel like the booking was off in forcing that kind of match when it was not a big strength for either guy.  The end was interesting, but ultimately not great because Dean simply is not a "chairshots & dragging a guy around the arena" wrestler.  He just didn't do well at all put in that spot, and knowing how he liked to wrestle it's not surprising.