Professional wrestling legend and a former six times WWE World Champion Chris Jericho who is the inaugural AEW World Champion recently talked about a potential retirement from his in ring professional wrestling career. He said that he does not want to think about his retirement right now.
Chris Jericho started his professional wrestling career back in 1990 under the independent circuit. He had been pretty impressive from the very first day of his professional wrestling career. After working in various promotions for a number of years his first major breakthrough was in 1996 when he was signed by WCW.
Chris Jericho On A Potential Retirement
In WCW has mostly been treated as a cruiserweight wrestler. He won the WCW Cruiserweight Championship four times and the WCW World Television Championship one time. But he has never been treated as a main event star in WCW.
In 1999 he came to WWE for the first time in his career. His WWE debut is considered as one of the best debut in the history of Pro wrestling. At first he was treated as a mid card wrestler as he mostly focused on the mid card and lower mid card championships.
He was first treated as a main event star in late 2001 when he defeated both Stone Cold Steve Austin and the Rock in one single night at the Vengeance pay per view event to become the first ever WWE Undisputed champion. Later he went on to main event WrestleMania X-8 along with Triple H.
He went on to win a total of six world championships in WWE. He also won the WWE intercontinental championship for a record number of nine times. Indeed he is a legend of WWE and professional wrestling.
In 2018 he left WWE ending his two decade long WWE career. He worked on the NJPW and on the independent circuit before joining AEW in 2019. He became the inaugural AEW World Champion and currently is going quite strong in the newly founded promotion.
Chris Jericho who is the inaugural AEW World Champion recently spoke to Newsweek’s Matthew Allen Girard where he talked about a potential retirement from his in ring professional wrestling career. He said that he does not want to think about his retirement right now. He said;
“I think a lot of times people always kind of want to put a bow on everything but it really doesn’t work that way. I think part of the reason I’ve had such longevity is that I go with the flow and I follow my heart. Did I ever expect to be 31 years on the job? I can’t say that I did, but I can’t say that I didn’t.
“I don’t think when you’re 19, you really think about [retirement]. 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.”