The Demo God, Le Champion, and now the Million Viewer Man. As reported by Heel By Nature, Chris Jericho is aiming to add another nickname to his repertoire if a recent trademark filing is any indication.
Jericho’s new nickname refers to last week’s episode of Dynamite, which topped one million viewers when going unopposed. This week’s head to head battle with NXT ended in familiar fashion, with AEW topping WWE’s black and gold brand by several hundred thousand total viewers.
Jericho has also filed to trademark Clint Bobski, a fake name he’s used throughout his career, including a memorable turn as an announcer in WWE’s Southpaw Regional Wrestling skits. However, that’s not the first time he used it by a longshot, which he mentioned in his book “A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex.”
It was the second time my name had appeared in a wrestling magazine; the first via a letter that had been written by a fan named Clint Bobsky, who said that Chris Jericho was the best new wrestler he’d ever seen. Clint Bobsky was of course the nom de plume of moi.
There’s no word on if Clint will arrive in AEW in some form, but there is almost a guarantee that this won’t be the last new moniker Y2J gives himself before all’s said and done.
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Jericho was a recent guest on Sippin’ The Tea with Ariane Andrew and Matt Dillon and he spoke about how a chance meeting with Dan Rather led to him to trademarking “No Is A Four Letter Word”, which is also the title of his fourth book. Jericho said he also learned from KISS’ Gene Simmons to trademark and copyright everything and shared that he owns the rights to his ring name.
“That’s what Gene Simmons taught me, copyright everything. I have a copyright lawyer and I text him once or twice a week. Anything—any stupid I have, sooner or later it will pay off and I’ll be glad I had that copyright written.”
“That’s the smartest thing I did when I was leaving WCW in 1999 going to WWE. I trademarked Chris Jericho because I’ve used ‘Chris Jericho’ since my very first match and I didn’t want to go into WWE and not have that covered because they’ll take it from you. So then you can’t be ‘Chris Jericho’ anymore and I wasn’t going to let that happen. I’ve always been smart about copyrighting those types of things.”
