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Chris Jericho On How Long He Plans On Wrestling, His Expiring Contract, Adapting To PG, Bryan Daniel's Release, Batista, More
Written by Richard Gray on Jun 23, 2010 - 11:40:47 AM
Brian Fritz of AOL FanHouse has an outstanding Q&A online with Chris Jericho. The session is used to promote the new "Downfall" game show hosted by Jericho but he talks openly about numerous other topics. Below are the highlights:
Working Larry King: Actually, I've had an agent for years and then I got a new agency, a pretty good one, when I did the Larry King bit on his show where I was a real (expletive) to him and didn't break character the whole time and he was completely sure that I was being serious. Obviously I wasn't. The agency saw that and said well, this guy's a pretty good actor. I signed with them about a year ago and there have been a couple of things that have popped up. You know, a lot of it you just don't have time to do the stuff you'd like to do with the full time schedule of the WWE. It wasn't something that was handed to me. It was an audition but an invited audition. They wanted to see me specifically. But afterwards I found out about 150 people auditioned for it and there were 20-some people that were put on tape for producers to see. It was quite a length audition process and for whatever reason I was the one they wanted for the show which was great.
How long he plans on wrestling: Yeah, the same timetable I've always had. When I'm finished with it and I feel I can't be at the absolute best any more I'll finish up. The stuff I've done over the last couple of years -- the last two-and-a-half years – to me has been the best stuff of my career. And that means a lot to me because when I came back, I didn't want to come back and be a nostalgia act. I wanted to do something completely different and make an impact and I've done that more than I had ever in my career. Even last night, working with Evan Bourne it was the best match I've had in months. I was like 'stole the show, hadn't stolen the show in a few months' but I haven't really been given the opportunity to working with The Miz against the Harts, those types of things. I think at WrestleMania Edge and I came close to stealing the show. I wasn't completely happy with the match but it was still good. But last night was one of those matches, like, for me, because I can only judge by how I feel and last night was one of those 'give it up for Jericho', that was a Jericho match. That's a classic for me. So it's good to know that those are still there. When you do those and have some great promos... You know, I always have, storylines are always important to me. I always laugh when I start a storyline because they're always very intricate and drawn out. You do something for one or two weeks and people make assumptions. Jericho is on a losing streak or Jericho is this or Jericho is that. That just makes me laugh because you should know by now with Jericho that things are never what they seem and you should sit back and shut the (expletive) up and let me do my job and just enjoy it and not analyze it until it's all said and done. The same thing I did with (Rey) Mysterio or Shawn Michaels or Steve Austin or these old-timers or the Mickey Rourke thing, there's always more to it than meets the eye and you never really know exactly the whole story until it's over. It's kind of like Pulp Fiction – Jericho is the Pulp Fiction of wrestling.
His contract coming up: Yeah, it's coming up fairly soon, it's coming up very soon. It's one of those things we've been talking about for a while to get it rolling again. Like I said, to me, I'll leave the business when I'm ready to and I'm not ready yet. I still want to continue to work. I still have some things that I can offer. I still think I'm among the best in what I do, if not the best just because of the fact I have 20 years of experience which is a rare thing nowadays. You can't teach experience. You can teach someone to do a promo kind of, you can teach someone to do a move but you can't teach someone experience.
Thoughts on the firing of Daniel Bryan: I think he got caught in a crossfire. I think he was the scapegoat for somebody getting angry at the choke thing. Obviously, that's been a hot button topic for years. I don't think he did it maliciously. I don't think Vince (McMahon) fired him maliciously. I think it was one of those things where hands were tied and somebody got angry from somewhere and they had to make a knee jerk decision to do that. I think it hurts the NXT group because it's great right now when you have seven animals ganging up on one guy. That's a great visual but when it comes down, at some point they're going to have to wrestle. At some point, somebody's going to have to wrestle. And Wade Barrett is good but Danielson was the gem and could go out there and have five star matches with anybody. And they don't have that right now. That's the one thing I think is a little bit of a weak link in the NXT chain is the fact that they don't have that. So losing Bryan is going to be, it's going to be a blow. Hopefully, they'll bring him back at some point because he's a great guy and a great talent. I worked with him for about six minutes on the first NXT but it was a great match and I would love to work with him more and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Adapting to WWE PG: Yeah, Not me. I was never really the big swearing guy. I had a couple of things - ass clown, shut the hell up and stuff like that. If you're creative and you're smart and intelligent, there's a million more where that came from. No choking – fine. No chopping – fine. It takes two or three matches to get used to it but that's it. And no choking, that's no blatant choking with a wire or tie. I mean, it's still wrestling. That's one of the reasons why I'm still on top. I've been able to adapt to the changes anywhere I've gone. And PG, I think, is a great idea. To me, the Attitude Era was stupid. Hot Lesbian Action and Meat with a (expletive) (expletive) in his pants because he has a (expletive) and Mark Henry getting a (expletive) from a guy and necrophilia. That's not entertaining by anybody's standards. That's just stupid and I never liked that stuff. For me, for them to go family oriented, I'm all for it. It's family oriented but in this day and age where you can still go out there and have kick ass matches. It's still edgy, there's still great characters. I've got no problem with it. I like it much better than the Attitude Era because I thought the Attitude Era was just childish, dropping (expletive) on each another and stuff. C'mon, that's not funny if you're five years old.
Batista walking away: Whatever. Dave is one of those guys where he got everything he wanted out of the business and maybe he wants to go find himself the way I did a couple of years ago. Will he come back? I'm sure he will. If he wants to do MMA, why not? He's a big guy and he actually does train. I've seen him throw hands pretty good so hopefully he goes in and beats some dudes up and then when he comes back he can make more money here. Yeah, I think it's great. Anytime somebody goes out of the wrestling business and does something on their own in another world, it's just better for all of us. Better for the company, better for me, better for Vince, better for Dave. Good for him.
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Thanks to Wrestling News World reader Bijan Nowroozian for sending us the link.
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