Chris Jericho says he has no interest in hanging up his boots just yet.
Chris Jericho has been a professional wrestler for 31 years and for most, outside of names like Ric Flair and The Undertaker, it would be about time to consider retirement if not having already been retired for several years at that point.
For Chris Jericho, however, he has been enjoying this stage of life more than any other. His band, Fozzy, is still going strong and he helped launch All Elite Wrestling in 2019, leading to what many believe is a boom period for the world of professional wrestling.
Speaking with Newsweek, Chris Jericho explains why he has no interest in retiring just yet and the reason why is simple, he is still having fun.
“I don’t think when you’re 19, you really think about [retirement],” Jericho said. “I never really said OK, ‘I’m going to do it this long,’ and I still don’t. I don’t know how long I’m going to do the sport because I don’t think that way. When people ask ‘how long are you going to do this,’ I say ‘I don’t know. When I feel like I don’t want to do it anymore.’ I don’t feel that way right now.”
He added, “There’s really no reason to stop for me because it’s fun for me to work with this whole new generation of stars that are growing into their own and helping them,” Jericho said. “I think when you kind of live in the now it makes things a lot better, a lot more important and a lot more special in what you are doing. I think we’ve done a great job with that and we’ve really only just begun in a lot of ways. If I didn’t enjoy it and I didn’t have fun with it, I wouldn’t f**king do it.”
Even though Chris Jericho won’t be on this week’s episode of dynamite because he is on tour with Fozzy, he now says he doesn’t feel any risk about taking time off because the company now has a stacked roster.
“We started it and we made it something viable right out of the gate,” said Jericho, who will not be at Wednesday’s event in Elmont and is currently on tour with his bandmates in Ireland. “I’ll always take great pride in that and I’ll always take great pride in that fact that now I can be in Ireland on tour with Fozzy, missing a couple of weeks of Dynamite, and I don’t have to worry like I did before. Because now our roster has so many stars on it that they can take a couple of weeks with no Chris Jericho and some people might not even notice.”
