Jeri-Show

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Jeri-Show
Big Show / Paul Wight[1]
Chris Jericho[1]
Name(s)Jeri-Show[2]
Chris Jericho and The Big Show
Chris Jericho and Paul Wight
Billed heightsBig Show: 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m)[3]
Chris Jericho: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[4]
Combined
billed weight		711 lb (323 kg)[4][3]
DebutJuly 26, 2009[1]
Years active2009–2010
2012
2014
2016[1][2]
2023–present

The team of

promotion, where Wight was known as (The) Big Show.[1]

The duo made their debut in July 2009 at WWE's

WWE Tag Team Championship).[5][6]

Throughout the remainder of 2009, Jeri-Show were involved in several highly promoted feuds and angles, as well as defending the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship and challenging for the World Heavyweight Championship.[7] The duo also headlined two of WWE's pay-per-view events during their short tenure together, with the first being at Survivor Series[8] and the second at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs.[9]

After their WWE departures in 2019 and 2021, respectively, Jericho had signed with AEW as one of the earliest members of the roster while Wight (formerly Big Show) followed two years later.

History

World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE (2009–2016)

Unified WWE Tag Team Champions (2009–2010)

At

WWE Tag Team Championship) as surprise entrants in a tag team match.[10] When Edge suffered a torn Achilles tendon shortly thereafter which left him unable to wrestle, Jericho exploited a contractual loophole that allowed him to choose a new partner to replace Edge so that Jericho's reign could continue uninterrupted, while insulting Edge for being injury prone.[11][12]

On July 26 at

JTG and Shad Gaspard), which culminated in a successful title defense for Jeri-Show at SummerSlam on August 23.[14][15] Jericho and Big Show would then feud with Montel Vontavious Porter and Mark Henry, which would also result in another successful title defense for Jeri-Show at Breaking Point on September 13 against them.[16] Next, Jeri-Show would move on to feud with Batista, who then challenged for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship with Jericho's rival Rey Mysterio at Hell in a Cell on October 4, where resulted in another successful title defense.[17]

On the October 5 episode of Raw, Jeri-Show would begin a feud with

Tables, Ladders and Chairs match, ending their reign at 140 days.[20] On the December 14 episode of Raw, Jeri-Show won a Slammy Award for "Tag Team of the Year", while that same night they used their rematch clause against D-X, who quickly intentionally disqualified themselves and retained the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship (as a result, Jericho, from the SmackDown brand, could not appear on Raw as he was no longer a Unified WWE Tag Team Champion).[21][22] D-X granted Jeri-Show yet another rematch for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship, with the additional stipulation that Jericho had to "leave Raw forever" if Jeri-Show lost, which they did on the January 4, 2010 episode of Raw, marking the end of Jeri-Show.[2]

After their breakup, Edge made his return at the

2010 WWE draft.[25]

Unofficial reunions (2012–2016)

On the July 9, 2012 episode of Raw, Jeri-Show (as villains) reunited for one-time to take on John Cena and Kane in a tag team match, which they went to lose by disqualification.[26]

On the September 5, 2014 episode of SmackDown, Jeri-Show (as

Luke Harper), which Jeri-Show's team won by disqualification after The Wyatt Family broke up Cena's STF on Rollins and refused to stop their assault on Cena.[27]

On the January 28, 2016 episode of SmackDown, Big Show helped Jericho, Reigns and

Dean Ambrose from a Wyatt Family assault, having a one night reunion for Jeri-Show.[28]

All Elite Wrestling (2023–present)

Jericho, now signed with All Elite Wrestling since 2019, had filed a trademark to the team name in February 2023.[29] He did an interview with Renee Paquette on the October 25 episode of AEW Dynamite that after he was attacked by Powerhouse Hobbs, Jericho stated that "that while Don Callis may have a lot of family members, Jericho has a lot of friends, including some that are even bigger", referring to Big Show, now going by his real name of Paul Wight, who signed with the company in 2021, teasing a possible JeriShow reunion.[30]

On the November 1 episode of Dynamite, Jericho and Kenny Omega (of The Golden Jets tag team) confronted Callis and challenged the Don Callis Family in a four-on-four Street Fight on the November 15 broadcast. Omega revealed that his Golden Lovers teammate Kota Ibushi will be one partner and Jericho revealed that Wight will be the other partner, reuniting Jeri-Show for the first time in 7 years. Wight appeared on the stage and knocked out Kyle Fletcher.[31]

Championships and accomplishments

References

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