According to Bryan Alvarez, Chris Jericho still hasn't signed a new contract with WWE, and the Six Pack Challenge may very well be his final match for the time being. The reason for the impasse is that Jericho wants to work a lighter schedule so he can tour with his band and promote his book. The WWE doesn't want to do this because they don't want to set a precedent for someone not as tenured as the Undertaker. Nope, Jericho, who's pushing 40 and has been with Titan Sports for over a decade, as well as being with companies that Titan purchased for an additional five year prior, isn't tenured enough to get a lighter workload.Cracka please.
If you ask me, that's a bullshit argument, especially for someone like Jericho who could still give you ten more years of effectiveness in the ring if he's preserved, which the lighter schedule will allow. Hell, they were rumored to have offered the "HBK-Taker" schedule to both Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy, which boggles my mind as to why they wouldn't do it for someone who is requesting it as a measure of self-preservation, not because he did too many fucking drugs in his prior life to NEED that kind of schedule.
You know what? No, I do understand it. Jericho is going out to do his own thing and doing a project in Fozzy that isn't underneath the WWE's media conglomerate. As we've seen with Maria Kanellis' firing, the WWE doesn't look kindly upon people not offering themselves as slave-labor to them, Disney-style. While I can comprehend why they have that mindset, I think it's idiotic because it's wrong. Jericho is in a position through Fozzy and even through Dancing with the Stars, which is something he's said he wants to do, to give the WWE more mainstream exposure, POSITIVE mainstream exposure, which is something you can't say for Angle or especially Hardy, who about a year ago in two weeks got busted with a fucking stash of drugs that would make Sean Waltman envious (YES IT WAS SO GOOD I HAD TO USE IT TWICE IN ONE DAY BITCHES).
Sometimes, I just don't know how they make money or have a monopoly on the wrestling market. Then again, what competition do they have? However, the hot rumor is that if Jericho doesn't re-sign with the WWE, then that new upstart promotion down in Florida run by Sean Davis and the Wilpon family would be in prime position to sign him. That would be pretty interesting now, wouldn't it?
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