Jim Cornette on Chris Jericho Changing His Name To Just "Jericho"

0:00 Several people have sent over this quote. Apparently, it's from an interview with Ringer Wrestling, Chris Jericho, on why he changed his name to just Jericho. I don't know if you've known this because you don't watch Dynamite anymore. He's no longer Chris Jericho. Seriously, >> they only refer to him as Jericho. The graphics only show the word Jericho. >> Oh, Christ. >> Here's his rationale. I like the idea of what I'm doing now with Jericho. And by not using that first name a lot, it created this whole intrigue online. Like, what's he doing? What's the idea? What's the reason? Honestly, it's like a self-titled album. That's where I kind of got the idea from. I could create a dozen other

0:46 nicknames, but how many more do I need? Everyone knows who Jericho is. And when you hear that name, then you can go remember whatever memories you have on your own. So it really is like Metallica the Black Album. It doesn't need to be called anything. You know who Metallica is. You know what's going on. >> What the hell is he talking about? >> The Beatles, the White Album. Same thing. That's kind of what the idea is for the Jericho era. And I like it. I like what's been going on and going with the flow, seeing what's working and what's not. So Jim, like I said, a lot of listeners have sent this in. They wanted

1:32 to get your thoughts. >> This is [ __ ] gibberish. This is complete gibberish. Everybody knows his name is Chris Jericho and why that it would be a revolutionary thing. What is Why are they The only thing they're wondering is why would they just call him by his [ __ ] first name anymore? That'd be the only thing people would wonder. It's not like this suddenly makes a mystery like oh my god, has he gone to a Tibetan monastery and gotten a completely different outlook on life? No, it's just his last name that it's always been. Why would you call the And we know what his first name is. So why would we stop calling him that? And why would it matter if we did?

2:18 >> And it stands out in a bad way when all of a sudden the commentators can't call him Chris and all of a sudden no one calls him Chris. Everything's Jericho. It's like when Vince would insist on guys dropping their [ __ ] first name. But it doesn't make any sense cuz he's an established star. He's not some guy who's just got called up from the main roster and was told you're no longer Alexander. But that's that's again what would make it different about him in any way? Oh, he's just using his last name now. Okay, that sounds strange. Next. What is what mystery is there here? >> One of the listeners, Doug Street, wrote on this on the Cult of Cornet group. If a learning tree falls in the forest,

3:05 >> oh, there goes my chair. I mean, chair is starting to squeak again. This [ __ ] chair. Oh, you and those squeaky chairs. Is he not >> huffing his own farts here that he thinks that this meaningless trivial move that he has made is sparking such tremendous commentary and creativity. >> Imagine if any other established star with his longevity pulled this. Look who's here. It's flare. Savage is here. Just anywhere. >> Savage. >> It's Michael's. Michaels. >> Yeah. I don't know. I think he's uh overthinking it, you know. So, I think that's part of the problem. He always

3:51 thinks that he has to reinvent himself and, you know, be Bowie and or Madonna maybe, do something different every time. But at a certain point, just be you and people will be happy. But it's always >> he ain't got that much longer left to be anybody. So just be the [ __ ] guy you've always been. >> And I'll just say this here because I've talked to people in the locker room and I was just talking to someone the other day about Jericho. They say he's been in a great headsp space. He's been wonderful to work with. They don't know if he's been humbled by some of the reaction to his stuff the last few years, but I was told it was night and day. and he's been very easy to work with and a team player since he's been there. Since he returned as just Jericho. So maybe Chris was the problem.

4:39 JERICHO THAT [ __ ] Chris. It was Chris all along. Once we got rid of Chris, >> I mean, right? I mean, an established guy like that, we're not talking about someone going from one territory to another. An established guy on national TV just all of a sudden dropping their first name. it stands out for the wrong reasons. >> It just it's it seems odd and it doesn't that's the only purpose it serves is to be odd. So I don't I don't know what but I'm glad he's he's excited about it. He sounds like he's very happy. Maybe he's he's entering the Shawn Michaels. He already found God before. So maybe he's entering the Shawn Michaels I found God and nobody will

5:24 talk to me phase. >> I don't know. Maybe it's I found therapy. Who knows? But Jim Chris Jericho may have made the decision to drop the name Chris, which will make it even more awkward when he reintroduces it at some point because it's not going to go away forever, folks. But maybe he needs to go shopping for a new name. And maybe if there was some entrepreneur out there who had a website to fool people like Chris Jericho with the buying a name, maybe they would partner with our friends at Shopify. Well, I'll tell you what, it it doesn't take a lot to fool somebody like Jericho. But it does take a lot to fool you and me, Brian. And we say no fooling that Shopify is a company that we trust

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