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Oh no I didn't mean it like that. I wasn't talking about this topic in particular, just the overall speculation about it. Shokz was just posting news about it from another source, nothing wrong with that.

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Oh no I didn't mean it like that. I wasn't talking about this topic in particular, just the overall speculation about it. Shokz was just posting news about it from another source, nothing wrong with that.

lol i know just kidding

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Chris Jericho was on the "Bubba The Love Sponge" radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio this morning. Jericho sidestepped any questions regarding his WWE return and said you can see him on his book tour. He did however mention that people have came up to him and said they have stayed home from work to order Cyber Sunday and asked him why he wasn’t at RAW in Philadelphia.

Bubba said that Jericho’s return is the worst kept secret in the business. He then talked about when TNA President Dixie Carter was on the show a few weeks ago and mentioned WWE’s deal with Chris. Chris and Bubba then joked about him signing a million dollar a year deal with TNA.

Chris went on to talk about his backstage fight with Goldberg, his book, and Chris Benoit.

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Chris Jericho appeared on the XM satellite radio half of the Opie and Anthony show heard from 6am - 9am on many terrestrial radio stations in the us and on XM Satellite radio from 9am - 11am every weekday. In the most cringe inducing appearances of Jericho’s Book media tour.

They talked about the book and Jericho told a few stories from "A Lion's Tale", Jericho’s new book. Jericho told a story about wrestling for New Japan in 1995 as Super Liger against Jushin “Thunder” Liger. Due to the unfamiliarity of wearing the mask, Jericho ended up having one of the more embarrassing matches in his career. Very funny story.

Jericho then told a story about being robbed in Mexico by some chick he was making out with in the backseat of car while her partner drove them farther into the desert, leaving Jericho penniless and alone.

They talk about the Jericho return to the WWE. Chris (of course) would not answer ether way but Opie and Anthony really busted his balls about returning. Jericho said he didn’t like the fact that the Internet ruins the surprise aspect of the business .

The interview went downhill from there. Chris started telling a story about doing the Christopher Reeve Hockey game. Comedian Jim Norton, who is the third member of the O&A show, made a tasteless yet funny Chris Reeve paraplegic joke, which pissed Jericho off. Jericho told Jim that it wasn’t funny, that Reeve was a friend of his and not to make fun of that.
They went back and forth for awhile arguing over whether it was funny or not. Opie then told Jim and the rest of the listeners the real reason Jericho was upset - Jericho’s mom is a paraplegic. Jim would not apologize because he said everything said in comedy is OK, but it just hit Jericho to close to home. Jericho agreed but was still pissed. They then tried to move on but never really could with Chris and Jim trading little jabs back and froth.

They went back to Jericho’s WWE return and started playing the Saveus.222 promo in the studio and started busting on Jericho some more. Opie asked Jericho again if he was denying coming back to WWE. Jericho said, "What’s the point? Everyone knows already." He then said when he finishes the book tour, "We’ll see." Opie said, "That’s a yes." Chris smiled and gave a nod.

There was much more, but without a doubt it was one of the funniest interviews I've heard from Jericho.

(Note: I don't get why WWE and Jericho are so upset when the save_us videos were purposely designed to hint Jericho's return. Were they expecting fans to not figure it out?)

Great interview, know where I could hear the whole thing? I think they are upset because he wanted people to try hard to find out, but I guess it wasn't that hard, anyway, another reason, that there are upset, could not be the figuring out, but the 'leaking' that some claim, of Stephanie 'blowing up'.

News On Jericho, Foley, SummerSlam, Rock, & More News

Chris Jericho has four book signings scheduled for this upcoming week. Firstly on Tuesday in Fort Hood, TX at the Base at Noon, secondly on Wednesday in Torrance, CA at Borders at 7pm. On Thursday Chris Jericho is scheduled to be in West Hollywood, CA at Book Soup at 7pm, and on Friday he will be in Redmond, WA at Borders at 7pm.

Mick Foley has opened a wrestling store on EBay. His store currently features the last WWE Slammy Award signed by Mick Foley, a bloody Mick Foley shirt worn at SummerSlam against Ric Flair personally signed to the winning bidder and much more. The store link is http://stores.ebay.com/MICK-FOLEY-WRESTLING-STORE.

As noted earlier, it was just announced on NBC that The Rock will host next week's SNL. This will be the third time The Rock has hosted SNL. [Thanks to Michael Weaver, Jr.]

Last night we went off to Book-Ends in Ridgewood, NJ to meet Chris Jericho who was there signing his book, A Lion's Tale. There was quite a crowd for Jericho, which was nice to see, since he's not currently on roster for TNA or WWE. The signing was very laid back, much like the man himself. Fans were able to stop and talk with Jericho for as long as they wanted about various topics, unlike at Batista's signing. In addition Y2J was posing for pictures with all his fans and joking around. After standing in line for almost two hours it was finally our turn to once again meet Chris. Much to my surprise he remembered me from his last signing in CT back in August. He also remembered that I told him I would catch up with him for his book tour. We talked about his tour and how crazy things have been in a good way for him. I wished him the best of luck and told him 'We all hope to see you soon'. Chris Jericho is just completely amazing. He couldn't be a nicer guy. If you he's in your arena, go out and meet him. I promise you it will be the experience of your life. No one comes close to Jericho. Now if he'll only come back and save us. [Thanks to Erin]

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Chris Jericho made an appearance on the Main Event wrestling radio show based in Montreal, Canada on Sunday, November 4th, 2007. We had a great in-person interview with Jericho back in November 2005 at a Fozzy concert (voted interview of the year at the time actually by you fans). Now, two years later, it was time for an encore to talk about the new book, wrestling, and music. So without further edue…here are the highlights of the interview for you wrestling fans…

Q: Hey Chris, like I said great to have you on the show for a second time. How have things been with you lately?

A: "I haven't been doing anything for the last couple of weeks except for this book tour; I've got like two seconds of free time."

Q: The last time we had you on was right after your departure from the WWE, and now with the Save_Us videos rumors are running rampant about a return to the company. So, can you tell us anything about these "Save_Us" videos and presumably, your upcoming return?

A: "I can tell you that I've seen a couple of them; they're pretty wacky, they're pretty cool. There's a lot a of speculation and a lot of talking that I'm coming back and I'm always the last to know…no one has told me anything. I'm on this book tour right now; I'm going to be on this book tour for another 3 weeks, so until that happens I'm pretty much tied up. [Edit: Jericho may indirectly hinting that his WWE return will be in that time frame, possibly the Raw following Survivor Series]. People are starting to get mad at me, saying I was supposed to be on Raw on Monday. I never said I was going to be there…I'm innocent! I'm Innocent!"

Q: But the videos made people think you were going to be on Raw…it was saying dates like October the 28th, October the 29th, etc.

A: "It actually never said that though. It said SAVE_USX29. Everybody thought that's what it meant but who knows. It's one of those things that people were assuming things that they shouldn't have been assuming.

Q: We've seen you teasing fans on returns the last couple of years on your website, do you enjoy doing that?

A: "When I was a kid, when I got into wrestling at a very young age in the 70's… with my grandmother I didn't know anything, nobody did. You knew what was happening on TV and that was cool. It was much more of a magical experience. I think now the fact that people find things out basically at their fingertips by looking at the internet or by listening to inside news and stuff…I think it takes away from a lot of the fun and the magic of wrestling. I'm a magician, I have many secrets and tricks and when people need to know things they'll find out. It's fun to see everybody speculating, getting mad.

If you actually watched the videos, it never said October 29th, never once. I just enjoy putting some suspense and anticipation back in the business where everybody knows everything weeks before. That's not fun, I don't like that. Even if I was coming back tonight… or a year from now, I wouldn't tell anybody. When it happens, people will know and will be excited. You don't want to know what presents you are getting for Christmas. You can go and find out, open them up beforehand, but the surprise is spoiled.

Q: Recently, you published a book entitled A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, would you mind telling us a little bit about that?

A: "Well since you both read it, doing your homework, you'll know that it's one of the greatest books every written. Better than War and Peace, better than Lord of the Flies, better than Lord of the Rings! People are calling me the modern day Shakespeare. If Shakespeare were alive today they've said, he would be the modern day Chris Jericho. The book is basically the story of my journey of making it to the WWE. It's a 9-year of all the trials and tribulations both in the ring and outside of the ring. All the situations I've faced, highs and lows, life-threatening, dangerous, all that sort of stuff. I had a dream when I was very young, that I wanted to wrestle in the WWE, I didn't know how to get there but it was my dream. This is the story of all the places I went to from small time Canada, to Japan, Mexico, Germany, and all these other places until I finally made it into the WWE in 1999.

Q: In your book, you added in a foreword at the beginning to say how the Benoit in your biography is not the same man who killed his wife and son earlier this year. How did you feel when it happened? What do you think caused him to do the unthinkable?

A: "I never said exactly that in the foreword, what I said is this tale that happens from 1990-1999. This was a guy who I knew during that time who was very personal, professional relations, like a mentor, a big brother. And I wanted to address that because it's a very humorous, comedic, positive, uplifting story. With all the events happening, I felt I had to address it somehow so there wouldn't be a big black cloud hanging over it when people were reading it; wrestling fans and non-wrestling fans. I wanted to address it right off the bat. It was really quite irrelevant to my story. My story ends in 1999, but still Benoit is a pretty prominent character in the book and I felt I had to address it. How did I feel about it, how did you feel about it? It's just one of those things where nobody knows what happened and nobody will ever know what happened.

Q: Exactly. He was one of my favorite professional wrestlers and I always say you got to remember him for what he did in the ring. Nobody knows, or at least I don't know what happened in his personal life and it's not for us to judge. [For more information and opinions on Benoit, check out our historic July 1st edition of the show available for download on our website].

Unfortunately this weekend, we have heard the news of the sad death of women's wrestling legend the Fabulous Moolah. Do you have any memories about her? Maybe a funny story to tell?

A: "Her and Mae always would always come sporadically from time to time. Moolah was a very nice lady to me. I didn't really have a lot of experiences with her, but whenever I saw her I always made sure to say hi. She always wanted to get a kiss and a hug, and talk about how handsome I was…she was right, I'm a sexy beast. She was really cool. I think it's just one of those things that people in the modern era just know her as being the wacky sidekick to Mae Young or the wacky old lady that came but don't really realize that she's the most influential and ambiguous women's wrestler of all-time and was for 30 or 40 years. She ran the entire women's wrestling operation from the 50's all the way to the 80's...

There's a huge history of Moolah. I'd love to read a real story of all the things that she did and went through. I'm sure there are a lot of deviant things since she was in charge of the entire wrestling world for women for so many years. In the 50's and 60's, women's wrestling was much more prominent than it is now; much more serious than just a bunch of stripper chicks getting in the ring and rolling around and thinking they can wrestle. I mean these girls were actually fighting, actually working, and in some cases having better matches than the guys and drawing a lot of money too. I'd like to hear some of those real truthful stories about Moolah. Nice lady, I'm glad she was involved in the business until the end, I think Vince was very adamant about it, because he respected what she did."

Q: I've been wondering about this for awhile now, how's Ralphus doing these days?

A: "I've done like 12 days of autograph signings and appearances and that by far and 'the Man of 1000 Holds' are the questions that I get asked about the most. And it's so funny because I think to this day if you ask Ralphus what happened he wouldn't know. He didn't have a clue what was going on, he didn't have a clue why he was where he was, and I haven't seen the guy in 10 years. I don't know what he's doing. All I know is that had WCW played their cards differently as they could have with hundreds of guys it seems, they could have made a huge star out of Ralphus. There could have been Ralphus dolls, there could have been Ralphus video games, Ralphus fake teeth, Jericho personal security Ralphus shirts, but they just decided not to and I don't know he's probably serving fries somewhere at a Burger King on Route 22."

Q: You're still rocking with Fozzy currently on tour around the world, how has the band been kicking and how come you didn't make a stop here in Montreal this time around?

A: "First off, I'm always rocking. Second of all, well we did make the stop in Montreal that time that you saw us in November [of 2005] was kinda the start of the World Tour which went all the way through 2005 until the middle of 2006. So we were actually there but then what happened after that is we went over to the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, and we found a really big fan base there, especially in the UK. We toured there five times after I saw you in Montreal and we did really good there…now we're just in the midst of working on some new stuff. I've written all the lyrics for it and now we just need to get together and put some tunes together and go from there. It's a long process and it's just at the early stages right now."

Q: Have you had a chance to follow either the current products, whether it be WWE or TNA? What are your thoughts?

A: "I like the fact that there's two companies going. It's fun to watch both companies. Obviously TNA is the underdog and they have a lot of growing pains but on the other side of the coin they've been doing everything that they've wanted to do. They started out on Pay-Per-View, moved to Fox Sports and then moved over to prime-time on Spike and then got a two-hour show on Spike. They've got some great talent, and its fun. Its fun that there's a different place for fans and for wrestlers themselves to go. Both shows have pros and cons but it's great that there are a lot of different places to watch like when I was a kid.

For me, you know, I loved the AWA because that's when I first started watching, then I watched the WWF, and when I saw Stampede that's when I really knew I can wrestle and I wanted to wrestle. I discuss in my book that when I first saw Owen Hart because he wasn't a giant, he was so acrobatic, so amazing, and plus he was in Calgary, a place that I knew about growing up in Winnipeg… I knew how to take a bus to get there and that is when I really decided that I can do this and it gave me a lot of inspiration when I first started to watch Stampede. It seems to be going that way again now too."

Q: Theoretically, of course, let's say you were returning to the ring in the near future. Would we be seeing a new Chris Jericho? What would you hang onto from the past and what would be different when it comes to moveset, persona, whatever?

A: "I've always changed things up over the years. I love the fact that I had so many different looks and so many different moves that I can draw back on. The moves that is because I spent so much time in these countries; trained in Calgary, worked in Germany, worked in Japan, worked in Mexico, and had all these different things that can draw back on. I mentioned it in A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, available in fine bookstores around you. I mentioned that I was very lucky that I had many different colors to paint my pictures with due to the many different experiences that I had. I'll always change things up. Lookwise, you're on TV 52 weeks out of the year, you gotta be different man. You can't look the same all the time, people get bored. It sounds kind of strange but I compared myself to Madonna; how she's always had a different look, a different style. It's always her but different variations of it. Basically I am the Madonna of wrestling."

Q: Well, you did cut your signature long blonde hair recently, I did notice that.

A: "I just changed my wig; I took off the long blonde hair wig and put on a different one. That's all part of it. It's one of those things, you change things up, you look different, but you still keep the things that brought you to the dance. Wrestling is show business to me. Number one, first and foremost, is being entertaining, is being a showman, it's being the party host, it's putting on an appearance that people remember. Part of that is changing things up and keeping it going. I think that it's easy to balance that. When you go see AC/DC in concert, they play some new songs and they play all the old hits that everyone loves and that's the way that I always look at things, the way that a band does things. Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden cut his hair, but that doesn't make him any less of an awesome, majesty king rocker and it's the same for Jericho."

Q: You are the Ayatollah of Rock N' Rolla, or at least formerly known as that. Playing into that name, I recently viewed the RF Video shoot with the Iron Sheik. I don't know if you've seen it, but he freaked out on the DVD and accused you of stealing his gimmick and started yelling out random expletives. What is your reaction to this new character of his?

A: "I am always known as the Ayatollah of Rock N' Rolla, that never changes! Well it's quite obvious that I've stolen everything I've ever done from the Iron Sheik from the pointy boots to the Ayatollah to the bald head to the huge mustache to the unintelligible promos. So yes, I have stolen everything from the Iron Sheik and I will pay him royalties as a result. That's just obvious. As far as this new character, that's the old character. That's the Iron Sheik that has been around for 20-30 years and it's very funny but it's also very sad because it's a train wreck waiting to happen. There's a reason why he talks that way and it's just sad to see. No one is going to step in and help him, they just think it's funny to watch him make a fool of himself; to be in a completely drug-induced, drunken haze. It would be nice if somebody can take him aside and try to help him out in someway. But that won't happen, so g-d bless him.

Q: Alright Chris, thanks a lot for being on the show today, we'd love to have you on again anytime. A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex is available now at bookstores everywhere as well as online. I would recommend it to all wrestling fans. Any final words from yourself?

A: "Yeah, I'm a sexy beast and things are cool. Continue to watch and at some point you will see many tricks and secrets revealed..."

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Chris Jericho was on the Opie and Anthony show Friday morning and got into a heated argument with the hosts. After doing the usual interview questions and stuff, things took a weird turn.

The subject of Jericho's dad playing hockey with the NY Rangers came up and Jericho talked about he also played some hockey and took part in the Christopher Reeve celebrity hockey show. Reeve has been a target of Opie and Anthony's jokes for years now so one of the comedians, Jim Norton, immediately fired off a bad Reeve joke. Jericho didn't like it and let the guy know it saying he went too far. Jericho explained Reeve was his friend and he defends his friends. Norton said it was just a joke. Things got pretty intense between the two with Jericho eventually loosening up and saying he was just kidding. Norton however, wouldn't let it go and kept antagonizing Jericho about it. Jericho told the guy it appeared his feelings were hurt by some of Jericho's comments.

Opie then offered some context into why Jericho might be sensitive to Norton's joke - Jericho's mother was a quadriplegic. The show pretty much stopped right there with things getting so tense that the XM Radio security guy came in to make sure everything was OK and nothing was going to happen. This apparently offended Jericho as he said he was a professional wrestler and wouldn't resort to violence. This whole thing went on for about a half an hour until eventually they brought in a topless chick into the studio and things settled down. But still, there was tension throughout the rest of the show.

thanx for the articles.. interesting...

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Chris Jericho on the Joe McDonnell Experience

Former undisputed WWE World Champion Chris Jericho called into the Joe McDonnell Experience on KLAC AM 570 on Monday night to promote his book “A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex” as well as to talk about several other topics. The interview is available for download for podcasting at http://www.am570radio.com. These are some of the highlights from the interview.

- In the opening, Joe and Chris talked about Chris’ new hairstyle and he admitted that for years he was wearing a wig in the ring. Joe, in a joking manner, pointed out that it was definitely one of the ways that wrestlers protected each other in the ring. This also gave Chris a chance to relate a very funny anecdote relating to his other favorite sport, hockey. Chris said that one night he was at a hockey game and saw Bobby Hull get into a fight. During the fight the other player ripped a piece of Hull’s weave out of his hair and the next thing he knew Hull was beating the crap out of the other guy.

- Chris said that the book, which is currently number-two on the Amazon.com non-fiction sales list, covered his career up to his arrival in WWE. He said that he wanted to tell the story about how his travels throughout the various promotions in Mexico, Japan, Germany and America helped give him valuable experience that would help him later in his career and that the book ends with his arrival in WWE.

- Chris also talked about a rather scary experience he had with some members of the Yakuza during some drunken mischief that involved a flower pot that he threw up in the air and broke.

- He also brought up a rather embarrassing moment that occurred when he was a kid. He said that one Sunday when he was about ten he went to church and the minister brought him up in front of church and when he announced that Chris wanted to be a wrestler that the whole congregation laughed at him.

- Jericho also said that he was still somewhat “old school” in his approach to the business due to the fact that he never used the book to bury anyone but to talk about what brought him to the top of the business.

- When the conversation turned to Chris Benoit, Jericho said that everything that happened in regards to that is still with him to this day. He talked about the fact that Benoit pretty much was not just a mentor to him, but that he was also like a big brother. In fact, early in Jericho’s career he was nearly booked as Benoit’s brother and was going to form a tag team with him and he was going to be called Rob Benoit. In fact, Jericho said that he finished the book a month before the tragedy happened and was torn about whether or not to delete any references to Benoit. However, he kept it in because he was able to separate the Benoit that did those horrific things from the one that was his friend. Also, he dedicated a special forward to the “Rabid Wolverine”.

- Joe then asked Chris whether or not he was coming back to WWE. All Jericho said was that when he quit the business a few years ago that he pretty much had been burned out, but that his time away has rejuvenated his batteries and that when, and if, he returns it will be on his own terms.

There also was a lot of talk about an incident that happened between Chris and a Dave Samenko (who Joe also had a run in with) and Chris promoted his appearances Wednesday night at Borders in Torrance and Thursday night at Book Soup in West Hollywood and his careers in movies, music and comedy. This definitely was a great interview.

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- There was actually an idea pitched to Triple H by WWE Creative to call The Great Khali’s handler “Arab Bischoff” in the opening D-Generation X segment this past Monday on RAW. For whatever reason the line ended up not getting used.

- Several people in WWE were said to be happy with Santino Marella’s work on RAW this past Monday in the beer truck segment with Stone Cold Steve Austin. Many were surprised at the lack of pop that Austin received but felt that Marella sold the “hose down” well.

- The current plan for Chris Jericho’s WWE return is for it to occur the night after Survivor Series on the November 19th edition of RAW from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It is not likely that Jericho will return at the pay-per-view as the company does not want to overshadow the upcoming return of Edge. While all return plans are subject to change, November 19th is the current date WWE officials are working with.

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what the hell warning?

i post all the latest news , i dunt look @ chris jericho or enything look @ post dates brother , i think this is outrageous , u merged the thread thnx for that now i will post here but personally giving me warning for something u did (merging threads) in ur time does not make sense to me afterall u are mod isnt that what ur meant to do. its like sum1 posting news about sachin tendulkar regulary from cricinfo etc , will u make a thread called all Tendulkar News Goes Here , man i hope u dnt misunderstand me , im jus a lil shocked