Chris Jericho on how much longer he will be a wrestler: “I don’t know if it’s a year, two years, four years — I’m not sure”
During an interview with gameshub.com, Chris Jericho was asked if the current emphasis on the physical style of wrestling worries him. Here was Jericho’s response…
“What worries me about the guys working today is here I am at 55, 35 years in, with still some career left to go. I don’t know if it’s a year, two years, four years — I’m not sure. But I don’t know how many of the guys working now will have the option to go 35 years. Hopefully all of them. But you can already see what serious injuries do — a bad neck surgery changes everything.
The longevity may be harder to sustain when there’s so much emphasis on the physical at the expense of charisma and character. I remember the first time I ever got hurt. I thought I was invincible. I was in León, Mexico, did a dive over the top rope, and the guy who was supposed to catch me — a guy called Masaka — he just stepped aside. I landed on old-school bolted-down arena chairs. I messed up my arm and I thought, oh, I could actually get hurt doing this. And if a guy doesn’t want to catch you, that’s even worse.
After that I started getting smart about which moves were worth the risk. The guys who figure that out early are the ones who get the longevity.”