Wrestling legend Chris Jericho is not planning on hanging the boots up anytime quickly.
In a latest interview with “Z100,” the present ROH World Champion defined why retirement is not on his radar, pointing to the fervour he nonetheless has for the enterprise and the enjoyable he is nonetheless having in it. Whereas Jericho acknowledged that there is cash to be made by attaching his title to a venture, he insisted he wasn’t pushed by the greenback himself.
“I’ve by no means executed something for cash. Actually by no means have,” Jericho claimed. “In the event you do stuff that you just love, the cash at all times follows. In the event you do one thing for cash, it often by no means works out the way in which you need it to. To me, I will know when it is time, after which we’ll simply go from there. However for proper now, I am nonetheless having fun with this on the highest stage you may get pleasure from one thing.”
When the time does come to pack it in, Jericho dominated out the kind of farewell tour John Cena is doing in WWE. He mentioned that places an excessive amount of strain on a performer to ship. The AEW and ROH would favor to determine a match was his final after reflecting on it afterward, however he acknowledged his intrinsic wrestling mind may complicate issues.
“My Sid Vicious, Intercourse Pistols perspective is simply, ‘I will simply disappear and nobody will ever see me once more.’ However I do not know if I would have the ability to do this,” Jericho confessed. “So I am certain when the time is correct, I will realize it, and we’ll determine a option to do it, after which go from there. However after I’m retiring, it’s going to be, ‘I am retiring.’ I do not need to do the one the place you come again.”
Different wrestlers who insisted they’d keep retired however nonetheless got here again embody Ric Aptitude, Shawn Michaels, Terry Funk, and “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin, to call just a few.
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