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Chris Jericho On Getting AJ Styles Move Unbanned, Helping Current WWE Star Get A Tryout, True Heels
- Updated: October 5, 2016
Source: You’re Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Recently, WWE Superstar and Fozzy Frontman Chris Jericho was a guest on You’re Welcome! With Chael Sonnen. Among other things, Jericho discussed how he felt in over his head when he first arrived in WWE, how WWE’s brand extension may help performers, and how he enjoys seeing people who are doing things for the right reasons succeed.
According to Jericho, whose current WWE run will likely continue through till the new year, he felt in over his head when he got to WWE in 1999. The Jeri-KO member admitted that he learned how to get real heat in 2008 working with Shawn Michaels and went on to say that he feels as though he is one of the only true heels left in WWE.
“I was doing kind of a heel character in WCW. It was more of a comical type of thing, like [Sonnen] said, a funny heel. And so, I just brought that character over to WWE. And I had been wrestling for nine years by the time I got to WWE and realized pretty quickly that I was in over my head as far as I didn’t know as much as I thought that I knew. So, I think, for the first few years I was there, it was a heel at times, it was a babyface at times. I think when I first came in, I meant it to be a heel and it kind of wasn’t because I didn’t really know what to do to get heat at the time. I think I started to figure it out when I worked with Shawn Michaels in 2003. But I think 2008, when I turned on Shawn again, that’s when I really got what being a heel really is. And that’s when I was, for sure, the most hated guy in the business. There was nobody that thought I was a likeable heel at that point.” Jericho added, “it’s not what I’m doing all the way. I still think I’m one of the only actual heels in the company. But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having that entertaining side.”
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