Jericho announces plans to continue a diverse career in entertainment

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Chris Jericho was no stranger to hearing chants of “please retire” last year around the time he was doing the Learning Tree gimmick in AEW. However, after being off TV for roughly one year, fans seem to be enjoying the 55-year-old star’s babyface return to the promotion, which kicked off in April. During an interview this week with Dan Marston, Jericho was asked about what motivates him to keep doing it at this age. In answering the question, Chris made it very clear that the concept of slowing down or retiring just isn’t for him. “I still love doing cool things that people who appreciate my work will think is cool. I take great responsibility in entertaining people that appreciate Chris Jericho’s work, but not just in wrestling, or not just in music, in as many different ways as I can. Because to me, that’s exciting. Creatively, I need to be stimulated and be motivated. So, that’s one reason. Two, I got a lot of fans and friends, people who appreciate what I do, and can’t wait to see what I’m doing next. So whether it’s the Jericho Cruise, or it’s Talk Is Jericho, or if I’m on Dexter, or we’re doing Fozzy…It’s kind of cool to see how I’m influenced by these guys, but then I’ve influenced those guys, and it all kind of blends in together in a really cool, creative, respectful soup, shall we say. Yeah I mean, what am I gonna do? Retire from doing everything, and go take this box and put it over there, and grow flowers for the rest of my life? I have no intentions of slowing down. I might not be wrestling forever, nor do I want to be, but you can play music until you’re in your 80’s, and you can act, and you can do podcasts, and you can do a lot of cool shit. And that’s what I plan to continue doing.” How much longer do you think Jericho will keep trying to do cool shit in pro wrestling before he moves on to only doing cool shit in other mediums? Let me know how you feel so far about his return to AEW in the comments below, Cagesiders.