Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer DDP Diamond Dallas Page who is also is former three times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently praised former six times WWE World Champion Chris Jericho and said that he was the Ric Flair of this generation.
Chris Jericho started his professional wrestling career back in 1990 under the independent circuit. He had been pretty impressive from the very first day of his professional wrestling career. After working in various promotions for a number of years his first major breakthrough was in 1996 when he was signed by WCW.
DDP Praises Chris Jericho And Compares Him To Ric Flair
In WCW has mostly been treated as a cruiserweight wrestler. He won the WCW Cruiserweight Championship four times and the WCW World Television Championship one time. But he has never been treated as a main event star in WCW.
In 1999 he came to WWE for the first time in his career. His WWE debut is considered as one of the best debut in the history of Pro wrestling. At first he was treated as a mid card wrestler as he mostly focused on the mid card and lower mid card championships.
He was first treated as a main event star in late 2001 when he defeated both Stone Cold Steve Austin and the Rock in one single night at the Vengeance pay per view event to become the first ever WWE Undisputed champion. Later he went on to main event WrestleMania X-8 along with Triple H.
He went on to win a total of six world championships in WWE. He also won the WWE intercontinental championship for a record number of nine times. Indeed he is a legend of WWE and professional wrestling.
In 2018 he left WWE ending his two decade long WWE career. He worked on the NJPW and on the independent circuit before joining AEW in 2019. He became the inaugural AEW World Champion and currently is going quite strong in the newly founded promotion.
DDP Diamond Dallas Page who is also is former three times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to Steven Muehlhausen of DAZN where he praised former six times WWE World Champion Chris Jericho and said that he was the Ric Flair of this generation. He said;
”To me, Chris Jericho is the most over guy in professional wrestling. He’s Ric Flair. He’s Ric Flair now. He’s got 30 years, he’s still on top, he continues to reinvent himself, and he can still work ass off. They’re singing his song. That’s got to be the greatest compliment ever. To me, it’s the greatest entrance in wrestling because the people are so involved with it.”