Chris Jericho Interview 5.8.2010
Posted by David Damage on Monday, May 2, 2011
Under: Archive Interviews
Sunday
night Chris Jericho appeared on The LAW Live Audio Wrestling, here are
some of the highlights of the interview. The LAW can be heard Sunday
nights at 11pm EST at www.liveaudiowrestling.com and on Sirius 98 Hardcore Sports Radio.
On problems getting time off to perform with Fozzy such as next weekend and the U.K tour in the fall:
"In
some ways yes but it's an interesting case in how it is for me.
Obviously I have many years and experience and am one of the higher
names on the totem pole but more importantly I never get hurt for
whatever reason maybe too stupid. I've never been hurt so everyone else
on the roster takes time off from being hurt or to make a WWE movie. I
don't get hurt and I don't make WWE movies, I go on tour with my band so
it's kind of a no hassle situation because it's kind of an underlying
acceptance that I'm going to do this from time to time and there's a
little resistance but when it comes to the bottom line they know I need
to do this keep myself sane and explore these other possibilities and
not get hurt."
What time period his second book will cover?
"It
starts right when I walk to the ring for my debut against The Rock and
ends about seven years later when I walk out to face Randy Orton when I
returned in 2007. It's great because it's my whole WWE experience but
also very involved with starting a band with Fozzy and the trials and
tribulations of that which are just as ridiculous as some of the things I
went through in the first book when I was trying to make my name in
wrestling. It's a great dichotomy of a guy who is at the top of one
profession and trying to make it in another one with all of the
ridiculous stories you have come to expect from Chris Jericho's life."
One of the cool parts of his upcoming DVD that comes out in September:
"Back
in the early part of the decade you would go in the ring and do improv
comedy it would be me and Steve, me and Rock or Rock and Steve or
whatever and I found this one 15-minute piece of tape from Tucson,
Arizona of Steve and I doing 15 minutes of improv comedy and it's
brilliant, it's some of the funniest stuff I have ever done in my career
and Steve's career and no one has ever seen it. It never aired, it was
after the show and we always record everything that happens and as soon
as it ended I said that has to be on my DVD if I ever get one so I got a
tape of it and kept it in my house. It really is a great comprehensive
package of not just my career but of a great time in the business when
it had a lot more experienced guys and a lot less strict rules and stuff
like that."
Discussing the Nexus angle heading into SummerSlam:
"I
think it's been a stroke of genius. I think it's something that has got
people talking and of course there are critics in everything and it's
your job to do that. I think the fact you took seven guys that no one
had heard prior to February of this year and made them into the main
event of SummerSlam with a viable, interesting, money making match I
don't think that's ever been done in the history of the business. It
worked, it's worked better than anything we've done in awhile and I'm
very excited to be a part of it, originally I wasn't supposed to be a
part of it and was supposed to be involved with someone else but that
didn't work so we started working on this. It's great because you're
taking lighting in a bottle and more importantly now you have this cool
dichotomy with this Cena team or Jericho team whatever you want to call
it and Nexus is a well oiled pack of wolves and then you have a bunch of
ego maniacs fighting it out to see who will be the leader of a team. It
really is a great story with a lot of levels and that's the best things
we do in the WWE is have very involved and layered stories and this is
one of those real cool ones that's been going in for months and I don't
know if SummerSlam will be the culmination, it wouldn't surprise me to
see it go further but it's a lot of fun to be a part of it, I'm enjoying
it. Plus it's really passing the torch and helping these guys and I
keep telling them this could be the biggest angle of your careers and
some of you won't make it out alive and that's really the truth some of
these guys won't ever be as over as they are right now so enjoy it and
learn as much as you can and run with as much as you can because it
might never happen again."
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