"Y2J" Chris Jericho hasn't been in the WWE since mid-2013, but he had plenty to offer during a recent interview by saying that he doesn't watch much wrestling and he may not watch WrestleMania XXX while he also addressed the CM Punk situation.
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Jericho said he would never necessarily walk out on the WWE when he was under contract, but he also didn't blame Punk. He suggested that no matter who leaves, the WWE and the wrestling business will still carry on.
"No. I've never done that," Jericho said about walking out via FoxSports.com. "When I felt the way that Punk did in '05, I just waited until my contract was done, and then I left for two-and-a-half years. I never walked out in the middle of a contract, nor would I. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing that Punk did because that's his decision."
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He added: "I don't know anything about it. I know as much as everyone else. The thing is, the wrestling business goes on. There's never been one guy who has ever left and caused the business to shut down. Hulk Hogan left. Bret Hart left. All these guys have left and guess what? They get replaced."
Jericho also talked about Punk leaving a lot of money on the table.
"Then, he must have made a s---load of money," Jericho said of Punk leaving money on the table. "I walked away from WCW when they offered me a contract, but I had enough. They could've paid me $3 million or $5 million or $10 million, and I still didn't want to be there. If you don't want to be there, the money is irrelevant. Yeah, you could look at it like he's walking away from a s---load of money, but he's also walking away from a situation where he's saying, "I don't care what they pay me, it's not enough. It's not worth my sanity, and I'm leaving.'".
With WrestleMania airing a week from this Sunday live from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on April 6, Jericho said he may not watch the biggest show of the year and that he doesn't watch wrestling all that often when he's at home.
"Kind of half and half," Jericho said via FoxSports.com when asked if he still watches wrestling or is uninterested. "I'm not wrestling because I choose not to. I have other things going on. I don't see myself wresting five years from now, so now is the time to make that transition. I follow the shows more online than anything."
Jericho then said that he enjoys watching other television shows instead of wrestling.
"I don't really watch wrestling because there are too many other things I like to watch," he said per FoxSports.com. "If I were at home for a couple of days, I'd rather watch True Detective or Walking Dead or House of Cards than wrestling. WrestleMania, I might check it out if I'm home. But my house isn't really a wrestling house. My kids don't care for it, my wife's not a fan. If I do watch it, it's more like I have to tape it and watch it later."
Jericho admitted that he does still follow what goes on in the WWE.
"I follow what's going on, but I don't really sit down to watch and analyze it," he told the site. "I need to follow what's going on. It's part of what I do. Whether it's my podcast or just being Chris Jericho. I never understood the guys who would come back into wrestling after being gone for five or six years and have no idea who all the characters are, and what's what. I'm kind of in the middle. I still follow along, but I don't really watch a lot."
WrestleMania XXX airs a week from this Sunday, and it looks as though the WWE will continue to be without Punk while Jericho likely won't be attending or watching the biggest show of the year
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