1 Jericho in his WWE days

Since turning heel earlier this year in his run-up to a WrestleMania meeting with AJ Styles, fans have been enjoying some of the best work from Chris Jericho that we’ve seen in a long time. Using a hybrid of all this past Y2J personas, his brash and cocky character complete with ridiculous entrance attire and the need to call everyone ‘stupid idiots’ have had the WWE Universe completely buying into Jericho circa 2016.

Well, the good news is there is still a lot more from Chris Jericho in WWE, as he revealed in a recent interview with International Business that he has no plans with full-time band Fozzy for the rest of the year. Paving the way for an extended WWE run in 2016 for the self-proclaimed best in the world at what he does.

“Fozzy, we made a concerted idea to not do anything in 2016. We’re gonna do a new record, it’ll be released early 2017, then it’s full-time back in Fozzy. Until then, I’m having so much fun in the WWE. I plan to continue for the next who knows how long it is. I’d never say, but suffice it to say it’s going to be for a little while longer for sure.”

Cause you're a dumb idiot. https://t.co/ZTur8127hQ — Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) July 6, 2016

Since returning at the beginning of 2016 to compete at the Royal Rumble, Jericho has participated in an epic feud with AJ Styles, worked with Dean Ambrose and been part of a memorable Money In The Bank match with some of the best new talent WWE has to offer. But where does Jericho’s current run rank in the future Hall of Famers illustrious WWE career?

“From the moment I came back this was always the plan. So everything that I did, me turning on AJ, that was kind of already written. It was fun for me to go out there as a babyface, knowing that the character is kind of stale, knowing that when I’m leading a rooty-tooty-booty chant it’s not very cool. I don’t know what rooty-tooty-booty means, but I also planted seeds to eventually turn heel. So it is one of my favorite years. It’s definitely my best year since 2008, 2009, no doubt about that. And you never know what’s gonna stick. If I was a band to have two late career top-10 hits, so to speak,cwith “stupid idiot” and “drink it in, man,” who would have ever expected that? Who would ever expect that I would make “stupid idiot” a catchphrase?

But that happens, so it really has been a lot of fun from a character standpoint, from a work standpoint, and getting a chance to kind of lock horns with this whole new generation of guys who all have the same mindset that I do. Just wanting to have a great match and just wanting to make their mark in the business. So it’s up there for me for sure. I don’t think anybody expected it, including me, but now that it’s the case, I’m riding it.”

Read more from Jericho here, as he speaks about the blurred lines between heels and faces, Roman Reigns’ suspension and the success of his podcast.

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