chris jericho
Who Wants to Be Sports Entertained?
It’s not every day you get to chat with the Sports Entertainer of the Week. When Chris Jericho joined SPIN for a video chat (we’re over using the “Z” word) on a Sunday, he spent the previous week appearing on two of All Elite Wrestling’s weekly shows, Dynamite (where he threw a fireball at a guy’s head) and Rampage (where he gave himself the aforementioned award for doing it), as well as playing shows with his band Fozzy in Louisiana and Texas, with a gig in Austin a few hours away. Jericho’s current gimmick in AEW — he and his stable of toadies, the Jericho Appreciation Society, declare themselves “sports entertainers” rather than pro wrestlers — trolls AEW fans by invoking Jericho’s former employer, WWE, which strenuously avoids the term “wrestling.” It’s the kind of self-aware shtick th...
Chris Jericho Forms ’80s KISS Cover Band Kuarantine
Chris Jericho was sitting at home in quarantine on April 11th like everyone else. He couldn’t wrestle (he’s one of AEW’s biggest attractions), and his band Fozzy wasn’t touring either. Then his pal Kent Slucher — Luke Bryan’s drummer — sent him a text with a drum part, and from there, things came together really quickly. “I said it sounds like KISS’ ‘No No No,’” Jericho told SPIN over the phone. “I asked him what he was doing and he said, ‘I’m just laying down some fun tracks with a friend of mine and we’re going to do a cover of the song.’ I asked him if they needed a singer and he said, ‘Absolutely.’ And that’s how it started. Calling themselves Kuarantine (get it?), Jericho and Slucher enlisted guitarist Joe McGinness and PJ Farley from hard rock band Trixter to fill out...
