AEW Champion and former WWE Superstar Chris Jericho recently spoke to Sports Illustrated. ‘Le Champion’ made some interesting comments with regards to his ‘greatest hits,’ his time in WWE and AEW.
“I have a great list of hits, but a lot of those will never be played again because I’m too busy concentrating on new hits and performing at the highest level,” stated Jericho. “It’s hard to leave all the old gimmicks and catchphrases, and take a chance, but if you don’t do that, it’s like DX coming to the ring in 2019 and yelling ‘Suck it!’ It looks like a relic from the past, and I never wanted to be that.”
“If I was still in the WWE, I would still have to be doing ‘The List’ and it would feel so old,” continued Jericho. “I love all the great stuff I did in the past, but to go out there and say ‘RAW is Jericho’ or ‘I’m the Ayatollah of Rock ‘n’ Rolla’ would really feel like a rock and roll band that tours that never puts on a new record and tours every summer.”
“Y2J feels like a lifetime ago,” Jericho stated. “There are still people that chant it sometimes, but to me, it’s like going to a Johnny Depp movie and he’s playing Captain Jack Sparrow, but you’re chanting for 21 Jump Street. It’s two completely different characters, played by the same guy, but one character is old and one is new. ‘The List’ was massively popular, and now I’m ‘Le Champion.’ If you like something I do, you better enjoy it. When it’s done, it’s done.”
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