Chris Jericho Blasts Wrestling Botch Obsessives: "Shut Your F*cking Mouth"
Former AEW World Champion Chris Jericho lays into "bullsh*t, disrespectful" botch discourse.
Chris Jericho has launched a scathing attack on botch discourse within professional wrestling, stating that he outright hates the word itself and how such things are discussed.
The former AEW World Champion's comments came during his recent interview with the True Geordie. Leaving nothing in the chamber, Jericho unpacked his disdain for the term "botch", pointing out, correctly, that human beings aren't infallible and make mistakes.
Said Jericho (h/t SEScoops):-
“Things happen in a match. The fu*king word I hate the most that fans use is botch. ‘Oh, you botched that one.’ Shut your f*cking mouth. There is no such thing as a botch. This is a live show. Mistakes happen. Why? Because we are human beings and we’re live.”
The way botches are dissected online has become particularly toxic in recent years, particularly online. Dozens upon dozens of Twitter accounts exist solely to poke holes in other peoples' work, desperate to illicit likes from similarly-minded trolls and anger from those who take the bait. Presumably, the people behind them are unerring in their professional lives.
Jericho kept going, pointing out that if a hockey player makes a mistake in a game, they aren't met with the same chants:-
“If it happens in a hockey game, the fans don’t start chanting in unison ‘You f*cked up, you f*cked up’. If you go to a Broadway play and someone fumbles their lines, people don’t start chanting ‘You f*cked up, you fucked up.’ You go to a wrestling match and miss a hip toss. People start chanting. That’s bullsh*t. It’s f*cking disrespectful. And wrestling fans walk the line of being disrespectful. WWE Hall of Fame and people are f*cking booing the Bushwhackers for being in the Hall of Fame? F*ck you."
The Canadian wrapped it up by saying that he loves professional wrestling fans, as without them, his career wouldn't have happened. Sometimes, though, they need to reel it in:-
“So that to me is like yeah, I love wrestling fans. If there were no fans there will be no career of Chris Jericho, but you guys gotta keep it in check sometimes and show some respect.”
Jericho's next advertised AEW appearance is a Barbed Wire Deathmatch vs. Eddie Kingston on the 20 July 'Fyter Fest' special episode of Dynamite.