Chris Jericho

WN escreveu:Chris Jericho deu uma entrevista ao News Magazine Network. Questionado sobre que meio que era mais duro, o wrestling ou a musica, Jericho disse: “It’s all hard. And it’s all show business. I’ve never considered myself a wrestler. I consider myself an entertainer. Anything that falls within that show business umbrella I feel I can do. That’s how I set my goals.”..

Jericho indicou que a sua prioridade actual é a música: “My priority now is with my band, Fozzy. I do so much touring with the band that my WWE wrestling appearances for now are far and in between. I still enjoy it. When I feel there’s something interesting to me I’ll get back in wrestling, but for now I’m plenty busy with everything I’m doing.”

WN escreveu:Chris Jericho deu uma entrevista ao FOXSports.com. Eis os highlights:...

FOXSports.com: WrestleMania XXX is on April 6. Are you excited to watch it or do you not have much interest since you're not part of the WWE at the moment?

Chris Jericho: Kind of half and half. I'm not wrestling because I choose not to. I have other things going on. I don't see myself wresting five years from now, so now is the time to make that transition. I follow the shows more online than anything. I don't really watch wrestling because there are too many other things I like to watch. If I were at home for a couple of days, I'd rather watch "True Detective" or "Walking Dead" or "House of Cards" than wrestling. WrestleMania, I might check it out if I'm home. But my house isn't really a wrestling house. My kids don't care for it, my wife's not a fan. If I do watch it, it's more like I have to tape it and watch it later.

FS: The big story in the WWE right now is the status of CM Punk, who walked away from the company a couple of months ago. Did you walk out on the WWE? And what is your opinion on what Punk did?

CJ: No. I've never done that. When I felt the way that Punk did in '05, I just waited until my contract was done, and then I left for two-and-a-half years. I never walked out in the middle of a contract, nor would I. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing that Punk did because that's his decision. I don't know anything about it. I know as much as everyone else. The thing is, the wrestling business goes on. There's never been one guy who has ever left and caused the business to shut down. Hulk Hogan left. Bret Hart left. All these guys have left and guess what? They get replaced.

FS: Jim Ross told me that Punk is leaving a ton of money on the table.

CJ: Then, he must have made a s---load of money. I walked away from WCW when they offered me a contract, but I had enough. They could've paid me $3 million or $5 million or $10 million, and I still didn't want to be there. If you don't want to be there, the money is irrelevant. Yeah, you could look at it like he's walking away from a s---load of money, but he's also walking away from a situation where he's saying, "I don't care what they pay me, it's not enough. It's not worth my sanity, and I'm leaving." It's easy to play armchair quarterback with this situation, but no one knows what's going on except Punk, and he's not talking, so it's all speculation at this point. The bottom line is, life goes on, the business goes on, and Punk doesn't seem to worry about it too much because he's not there.

FS: Do you keep up with what's going on in the WWE?

CJ: I follow what's going on, but I don't really sit down to watch and analyze it. I need to follow what's going on. It's part of what I do. Whether it's my podcast or just being Chris Jericho. I never understood the guys who would come back into wrestling after being gone for five or six years and have no idea who all the characters are, and what's what. I'm kind of in the middle. I still follow along, but I don't really watch a lot.

WN escreveu:O "Y2J", Chris Jericho foi entrevistado pelo "The Boston Hearald", onde ele falou sobre o que é preciso para ele retornar aos ringues da WWE, e também falou com quem ele gostaria de lutar neste ano. E ele disse:...

O que é preciso para você voltar a WWE? "Se eu estivesse na WrestleMania teria que ser em uma grande luta, e contra alguém importante, experiente e que tenha uma grande reputação para o meu retorno. Quando você vê aqueles cartazes da WrestleMania XXX e vê todos os caras que retornaram, como Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, Triple H, Batista e até mesmo a ascensão de Daniel Bryan, será que tem lugar para Jericho no meio dessas estrelas? Embora a WrestleMania esteja muito perto, eu poderia voltar, mas apenas se for por algo importante. Nas últimas WrestleManias, tive em grandes combates, por isso só volto se eu tiver a oportunidade de estar envolvido neste tipo de situação novamente. Não estou dizendo que tenho direito para isso, mas se minha participação no for neste tipo de situação, então é melhor eu ficar em casa".

Com quem você gostaria de lutar este ano? "Eu adoraria trabalhar com Daniel Bryan, mas com Chris Jericho heel. Poderíamos dar um grande show e isso ainda pode acontecer. Se me deixam ser heel e me colocassem no ringue com um babyface tão bom como Daniel Bryan eu seria capaz de fazer algumas coisas que nenhum heel pode fazer".

"Eu me candidatei para trabalhar com Cesaro, e tive um combate contra ele que durou 30 minutos em um house show em Tóquio no ano passado, e com certeza foi o combate que roubou o show, foi espectacular. Também pedi para trabalhar com Bray Wyatt no NXT no ano passado e tivemos uma grande luta. Então, esses são os três lutadores que eu gostaria de trabalhar".