Chris Jericho hospitalized in Swansea
 

The venue Fozzy were set to play at tonight put out the following statement:

Can be any number of things but if he's still trying to live the "rockstar lifestyle" on tour I hope he didn't hospitalize himself from hitting the bottle too hard.

Does he, or anyone think it’s wise for a 50 plus human being to be living the rockstar style life at all, after living a god damn wrestlers life for 30 years?

It became even more absurd after I typed it.

Hope he's ok.

Concerning. When you think about the illness performers battle through to do their things and the mess this would have left on the table, it does make you wonder if there’s more to the story. I’ve been saying for a while that someone close to Jericho might need to step in.

sometimes you can fake it til you make it... even to the er. could have been anything

The fact that he doesn’t get blown up even quicker than he does given his age and his love of the sauce is pretty impressive. He’s got that Mickey Mantle gene.

You have got to feel like if it was WWE, someone would have had a word with him about how bloated and unhealthy he looks.

It’s a worry that he is pretty much unchecked in AEW and doesn’t properly respond to anyone. It’s not good for someone as impulsive and prideful (judging from his books) as Jericho.

Vince was able to cut him down and keep him in line and eager to please. His ego and excesses are out of control in AEW.

Excellent post. :y:

Jericho’s updates have been eerie. He told Dave the hospital just wanted to observe him overnight and he’s “in the right place.” And he posted a picture of himself in London saying “back on the streets.”

I dunno. Something seems off. Like he’s reassuring people he’s fine without stating what the hell actually happened.

which is fine because its no one's business

He’s the one sharing it while being vague. He had a show canceled on ticket holders as a public figure. He’s allowed to be private about certain matters, but it doesn’t make them any less eerie.

Its absolutely the culture of AEW. Tony Khan lets them do whatever they want. Aside from Jericho, Omega and Moxley also got bloated. Moxley got rehab. Matt Hardy just gets to call off doctors with a severe concussion. Lance Archer was allowed to do moonsaults as a mid forties 6'6" 275 pounder who is lucky he isnt paralyzed.

All that is because the owner would rather people like him then protect his employees.

Or because he realizes that they're not legally employees and he doesn't treat them like employees...

Let me know when he's not a complete hypocritical phony who doesn't consistently require them to act as legal employees while consistently legally claiming they're independent contractors.

Chris Jericho got another world championship run in him.

Lmaoooo at xrod blaming Tony khan for wrestlers having substance abuse issues. Jesus Christ. Going with that logic Vice has a laundry list of wrestlers who’ve battled addiction, injuries, wrestling with known concussions, wrestling while sick, and being in angles that won’t help their substance abuse issues (putting it on air as an angle that Jake Roberts was a recovering alcoholic and making drunk jokes about it on commentary). Fucking please. These are grown men. They make their own personal decisions. Unless it’s get stated somewhere, we have zero idea how much khan knew if he knew anything about Moxley’s issues.

And Jericho was fat and bloated in new Japan. Why are we trying to pretend it was only in AEW that he suddenly blew up?

The culture enables them. Jericho would have gotten a tap on the shoulder long ago for the excessive and publicized drinking. His physical decline would have had people stepping in somewhere at some level, concerned for the guy outside the level of being a mark for his work from 1998-2008.

Going down the path you’re going is irrelevant and cunty. It’s got nothing to do with being an employee or independent contractor, and hiding like a pussy behind that. It’s about not paying someone seven figures to fucking destroy themselves for you.

Jericho isn't fat and bloated he's been bulking season and ready to cut very soon. He was going to cut before the Juvi match but the pandemic made it impossible.

I love how clowns like yourself pretend to definitively know a person's health status and well-being based solely on what you see in public and on TV. That's not even addressing how you "know" everything about an entire company's culture that you've never stepped foot in, and who has or hasn't done what, while ranting about how you know what would've definitely happened elsewhere.

You don't have a fucking clue about his health status or whether he remotely has any issues, let alone if anyone has or hasn't done something to try to help him and if he even needs or has asked for it.

Your completely speculating about someone's health and well-being based on what you're allowed to see publicly and assuming that their employer is not doing enough to control the personal actions of someone they employ.

You just made the list!

Has anyone who is lambasting "AEW culture" been in the locker room to really see what it's like? Or are they just shitting on it because it's AEW?

Unless you've been in that space, you have no idea what the culture is or how it affects anyone there. You're just spouting bullshit for the sake of it.

They go to parties who have people who read about those in the know from Twitter and other dead message boards.


Geez Screech, it's literally everywhere on the internet. I'm not going to come down to your level to show you, dumbass yank.

Damn, I forgot about the dirtsheet reading parties.

Some of these terrible takes are not going to age well. Keep licking that boot.

Jericho’s a grown-ass man who can down bottles of vodka on his podcasts for all to see, and he’s got every right to destroy himself. But that doesn’t make giving him the platform and means to do so isn’t morally reprehensible. And it doesn’t make it not sad.

Did any of you work for ECW? If not, how can you speak towards the culture there? Probably a clean working space. You are the same posters who will gobble up reports that wrestlers are miserable in the WWE.

Did you work for ECW?




GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS!!!!!

Do you really think Jericho needs AEW's money or "platform" to drink as much as he wants, whether in private or public?

It absolutely is Tony Khan's culture that allows it. The same way it was Vince McMahon's culture that allowed all the shit the wrestlers did while working for him.

Maybe if Tony Khan didnt buy booze and white claws to party with his employees after tapings Moxley wouldnt have got to such a bad place. Anything for Tony to have friends though, right?

And Khan didnt know my ass, Moxley was bragging about it on the stupid Cody Rhodes show that Tony produces.

"TONY NOT BAD, VINCE BAD!!!"

I never said he was better, worse, or the same as Vince until just nkw in my previous post. Just because Vince is an asshole Tony gets a pass? Thats a bad defense.

Does Tony really do that? Damn. Starting to like this guy.

It’s been publicly addressed and advertised. You are going to get that absence of reasoning when it comes to BigCrippyZ, screech and others when it comes to being honest about this company.

No, it's about one company believing they can and should be able to control the private lives of their talent and one that doesn't.

:lol:

Watch this tone flip if Tony Khan implements their own version of a wellness policy.

I don’t even know how Vince has come into the conversation. WWE being a shitty place to work has got nothing to do with whether or not substance abuse issues get way more room to walk themselves out in a company with such a party and “you’re doing great no matter what!” culture.

The assumptions being made here are amazing.

He does

He also orders a shitload of Taco Bell for everyone as well

I want some taquitos.

Eh, kind of with Damien on this one. Enabling substance abuse is a pretty serious accusation. Don't think there's enough evidence one way or the other to judge them on it quite yet.

Is there ANY evidence? Right now all I see are unsubstantiated accusations based on nothing and originating of the ass of those pointing the finger.

The idea that Moxley hasn’t struggled with abuse for a good portion of his adult life, and that he was somehow enabled by his employer, is fucking asinine. Just a piss poor take.

This thread isn’t real life.

Why didnt he ever get bloated and purple from alcohol abuse until he had no rules from his employer? Even though he has said so many times working in WWE was so bad and depressing and soul crushing, why not then? That logically that would be the most ideal time to drown his sorrows.

Super depressed Dean Ambrose had restraint and was still a professional for 7 years, but free from prison happy Jon Moxley drank himself into rehab in 2 years, and you do not believe the culture where he works may have enabled that?