— Chris Jericho recently spoke to ESPN ahead of his return to WWE this Friday at the Greatest Royal Rumble PPV. Some of the highlights are below:
On missing WrestleMania 34
“I’m not a full-time wrestler — I haven’t been since 2010. It’s all based on what Fozzy’s doing and what else is going on in my career at the time. It just wasn’t working out this year. I’m not the type of guy who’s gonna fly in, do WrestleMania and leave. There has to be an angle. There has to be a buildup. There just wasn’t. Even though everybody thought it was a big conspiracy, I actually wasn’t even there. I wouldn’t be a surprise guest at WrestleMania unless it was something really, really huge, and at that point in time we were touring.”
Returning for WWE’s Greatest Royal Rumble
“It’s one of those things — I would have rather been a surprise, but I think WWE is going in there with all guns blazing and all hands on deck. When I got the call to do this, I was like, ‘It doesn’t get any bigger than that.’ It’s much bigger than showing up even at Madison Square Garden, where we’ve been there a hundred times before. But doing it over in Saudi Arabia, it’s very majestic and very mysterious, adventurous, and that’s kind of what I’m all about.”
On his match against Undertaker being changed
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“Well, why did it get changed in the first place? That’s WWE. Things change all the time. After 17 years, I definitely know that. It’s one of those things where I’m gonna be there either way and that might change again. If they decide they want me to face [Shoichi] Funaki in a lingerie match, that’s fine too. That’s one thing with the experience level that I have for doing this for so long — you gotta be able to roll with the punches. Sometimes you get asked to do something, and sometimes you get asked not to do something, but either way it’s all cool. It doesn’t stress me out at all.”
His relationship with NJPW breaking down
“Things change. That’s how it goes. Sometimes things seem like a good idea at the time, and then when you look at it a little bit deeper and a little bit further, you realize it’s not gonna go the way you want it to go.”