Chris Jericho: I Take Great Responsibility In Entertaining People That Appreciate My Work
Chris Jericho owes it to his fans and friends.
At the age of 55, Jericho is constantly faced with questions about retirement. Even with these questions, the former AEW World Champion has always maintained that he has no plans of wrapping things up right now.
In a new interview with Dan Marston, ‘Y2J’ noted that he feels responsible to entertain the people that appreciate his work in all faucets.
“I still love doing cool things that people who appreciate my work will think is cool. I have a great — I take great responsibility in entertaining people that appreciate Chris Jericho’s work but not just in wrestling, not just in music, but as many different ways as I can. To me, that’s exciting. Creativity, I need to be stimulated and be motivated. So, that’s one reason.”
Continuing on, Jericho dismissed the idea of retiring from everything just to go plant flowers.
“Two, I got a lot of fans and friends. People who appreciate what I do and can’t wait to see what I’m doing next. Whether it’s the Jericho cruise or its Talk Is Jericho or if I’m on Dexter or we’re doing Fozzy. We played yesterday at Sonic Temple in Columbus, there was 50,000 people for our show. Afterwards, I found out that the Way brothers from MCR are huge Jericho fans. They waited in line to meet me when they were kids and here they are headlining this massive festival with My Chemical Romance. It’s cool to see how I’m influenced by these guys, but then I’ve influenced those guys and it all kind of blends in together in a really cool, creative, and respectful soup. What am I going to do, retire from doing everything and go take this box and put it over there and grow flowers for the rest of my life? So, I have no intentions of slowing down. I might not be wrestling forever, nor do I want to be, but you can play music until you’re in your 80s and you can act and you can do podcasts and you can do a lot of cool shit. That’s what I plan to continue doing.”
Jericho last wrestled on the May 27 episode of AEW Dynamite, where he defeated Ricochet.
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