Chris Jericho believes he has longevity in the business.
Jericho is currently a busy man outside of wrestling, as he’s involved in number of film projects, the Jericho Cruise, and his band Fozzy.
Many fans have speculated that Jericho could be wrapping up his career soon given how busy he is, but ‘The Learning Tree’ has stated on numerous occasions that he’s not interested in the idea of retirement yet.
While speaking to The Adam Carolla Show for a new chat, Jericho talked about staying busy and how he believes it contributes to his longevity in wrestling.
“My two dreams when I was a kid was to be a wrestler and was to be in a band, and o made it in wrestling, and then Fozzy was going on. I knew we could do it, we just had to put a lot of focus in it, and when something else comes up, [Carolla] was like, ‘Listen, this guy already made in wrestling, he made it in the band, don’t put your chips against this guy.’ You’re kind of right about that because once you succeed in doing a couple different things, then the idea of a cruise, podcast, acting, whatever the hell it is, it’s like, ‘Yeah, why not? Let’s go for it.’ Because it is important in this day and age to be versatile and to have diversity in your career because people get bored easily. They really do, even in wrestling. I change my character constantly. People are like, ‘Jericho’s got 50 different nicknames.’ Yeah, you’re fucking right I do. Because if I was still doing Y2J from 1999, that would be super boring at this point in time. It’s the same I fell career-wise. I feel that I have way more longevity in the wrestling business because of Fozzy, because of ‘Terrifier 3’, because of Talk Is Jericho, or the Jericho Cruise, or this litany of other things that I do. Why not? Why say no to anything if you feel you can make it work? There’s always going to be people that are angry about that and cut you down because of that. But that’s okay, those aren’t the people that I appeal to. I appeal to the people that enjoy the stuff that I do, and I work on gaining new fans that feel that way. So once you focus on the positive side, the negative doesn’t matter as much, and it’s easier to succeed.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jericho was asked to name the best match of his career. Check out his full answer by clicking here.
Learn more about Jericho’s latest film, ‘Dark Match’, by clicking here.
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