Chris Jericho Talks to Maxim About the WWE, His New Series, and More

Former WWE Champion Chris Jericho recently sat down with Nick Leftly of Maxim magazine for an interview. During their conversation, Jericho talks about his new web series Jon Davis Gets A Sex Robot, his favorite opponent in the ring, wrestling with hangovers, and more. Below are some highlights from the interview.

You’re starring in a new web series called Jon Davis Gets A Sex Robot. How did you get involved with that?

It actually all came about through Eli Roth, who introduced me to Jon Davis, who I hung out with a few times – he was a screenwriter in Hollywood, one of those guys that’s always been around doing stuff for years. He was hooked up with somebody that was involved with Justin Lin’s new YouTube Channel, YOMYOMF – which stands for You Offend Me, You Offend My Family, which must be some kind of a Bruce Lee thing. They were looking for content, and one thing led to another. He had this debate with his wife whether if sex robots ever became a thing, could he get one? Then he actually wrote a script based around that concept. When I read the script for it, I was kind of intrigued by the title of it, and how funny it ended up being. It’s very vulgar in parts but it’s also very heartwarming, which is why it works.

As far as your wrestling career goes, who is the best opponent you’ve ever worked with?

Probably Shawn Michaels. I think he’s probably the best total package wrestler of all time – he could do it all, and was a big influence of mine when I was first starting. That storyline, the feud I had with him in 2008, that was one of the best programs not just in my career, but in the entire history in of the WWE. It’s always cool when you start out as a fan and then become an ally where you’re working together. It’s the same with music – Fozzy toured with Metallica, and it was like, “Here I am with the band that influenced me to get into music.”

Some WWE fans have complained in recent years that the company seems to really push huge guys that can’t actually wrestle all that well, at the expense of experienced all-rounders, like yourself. What’s your take on that?

I don’t see it that way. Wrestling is all about new talent and new turnaround of the stars. I could be the main event guy there for 20 years, but there’s going to have to be other guys that come into that picture or else it’s pretty boring and business will go really bad. There’s only so much Jericho or so much HHH or so much Rock people can take. So you try different guys – some of them are bigger and don’t really have the talent, they have more of the look. Some guys are small and go against the traditional WWE superstar, but yet are so damn good they make it to the top – I’m talking about guys like Eddie Guerrero, or even Shawn Michaels or Daniel Bryan right now. You have guys who would never be the typical WWE superstar, but because they were so damn good, they would rise to the top of the mountain. You have to realize that if you have 60 guys on the roster, the WWE is going to try and get every one of those 60 guys to world championship level. Some of them will make it, the majority won’t, but until you try, you just never know. Everyone’s got to get a full chance, if not, why are they even there on the payroll?

What was the last thing you had to apologize for?

To my wife, probably last night just for whatever – you know how it is when you’re a husband you’re always getting in trouble for something. And you don’t even really know the reason, you just apologize and get it over with, move on. So, I apologized for something I didn’t do, even though I did it.

What’s your favorite curse word?

Jizz it up! It’s funny, I took my 9-year-old son to see Black Sabbath two nights ago – kind of a bad parental decision when Ozzy’s the front man and his opening line is, “C’mon you fuckers! I want a wild fucking crowd!” It’s like, “Oh no…” So it was a very uncomfortable hour or so until we basically had to get up and leave. So at that point my least favorite curse word was definitely the F-word as said by Ozzy.

What’s the worst hangover you’ve ever had?

I remember one time, it was before the very first Thunder, which was a WCW show, I had to go do promos for it and got really blitzed – there were flames involved, you know, taking alcohol and lighting it on fire and drinking it, which is never a good idea. I had the worst hangover and I had my first match on Thunder, and it was the very first time I had ever wrestled Ric Flair. So here I am wrestling a legendary guy with the worst hangover. I remember the first fall that I took, I felt like my head was going to explode. I didn’t even want to get up off the mat, it was so bad. I just remember trying to peel myself off the mat, just like, “It’s Flair! Get up, get up, get up! It’s live TV, get up, get up, get up!” And of course that show went fine, but I definitely paid the price for it.

Who was the last person to see you naked?

I think my daughter, she walked in the shower on me this morning. She’s 6, so it’s alright.

Finish this sentence: If I ruled the world for a day I would…

If I ruled the world for a day, I would create world peace, legalize marijuana, and get some really rad X-Ray goggles that I could see through all the chicks’ shirts with.

You can read the entire interview here: Chris Jericho’s Recent Maxim Interview

 

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