Chris Jericho: ‘The Only Thing That Matters Is Creativity, Personality, Charisma. That’s What Makes You Become A Big Star In The Business’

Chris Jericho says being creative is the only thing that matters in wrestling.

Jericho is currently missing from AEW, with his last match taking place at Dynasty 2025 against Bandido for the ROH World Title.

In a recent interview with Spencer Matthews, Chris Jericho was asked if being creative with his music has helped his wrestling career. He said:

“The only thing that matters is creativity, personality, charisma. That’s what makes you become a big star in the business. It doesn’t matter the moves that you do. ‘Oh, I can do a triple moonsault.’ Who cares? It doesn’t matter. It’s how you connect with the crowd, how you get your character over with the audience, how you build a story that people care about.

It’s like watching a movie. You can go to a movie like some Hollywood blockbusters that they spend $200 million on, but it’s shit because it’s just all a bunch of effects and set pieces. But there are no characters that you can relate to. The plot isn’t good. Then you can go see another movie that maybe cost $500,000 to make, but it’s one of the greatest movies of all time because you connect with these characters that you’re watching. That’s what wrestling is. It’s all based on that.

I tell everybody in the business, the young guys and girls that come in, ‘Work on your character and connect with the audience.’ If you can do that, you’ll always have a job, not just in wrestling, but in show business. That’s what it’s all about.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Jericho talked about how achieving success made him feel different than others. Fans can check his comments here.

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