Rox said it perfectly. Don't tell people you always loved them after spending 7 years IGNORING them. Be honest. At least admit that if you love them you've done a shit job showing it over the past 7 years.[
Yeah sorry he was kinda busy... ya know, having a career and a life over that last 7 fucking years
Now for the differences between Rock and Jericho
Oh this should be good...
1. Jericho spent twice as long in wrestling before his first break, which was 5 years shorter. Jericho was burned out, and for good reason. Rock retired, nothing wrong with that.
Jericho was a mid carder for 15 yrs., Rock was a Main Eventer, and trying to ballence personal appearances, Make a wish appearances, start a movie career, being a new father, and make as many WWE appearances as possible, and did a masterful job of balancing everything on his plate, Jericho just had to worry about getting to the next show, pretty sure Rocky was just as burned out after 7 years on top of the business adn Jericho was as 15 yrs. of being in the mid-card
BTW did Jericho ever reach steady ME success before Rock left, nope didn't think so
2. Jericho still never shied away from the wrestling business during EITHER of his breaks. While he wasn't employed by WWE, he still in interviews would put over the company and the people working for it.
Rock talked about his wrestling past when asked, however he was sent to do interviews to promote what ever movie he had coming out, he did his fucking job, you can't shit on him for that, and Jericho needed to embrace his wrestling past more, cause he knew he would eventually run out of money and need to go back at some point
3. Both have been equally busy (albeit Jericho not doing as mainstream stuff as Rock). People act like Jericho sat on his ass while Rock worked, which is bullshit (and those people know it).
Rock was being successful in his movie career, Jericho was making random appearances and shitty VH1 Shows, playing with his band, and hosting game shows, Jericho may have been busy but the work he was doing was earning him enough money to sustain dthe quality of life he had grown accustomed to, unlike the Rock, so as I said before Jericho
needed to keep the wrestling door open for when he ran out of money, Rock didn't, he came back cause he
wanted to
4. On both his breaks, Jericho never even tried to bury anyone on the roster, because he still respected the people doing it. Rock spending 7 years away, only making an appearance to shit on pretty much the entire roster at the Hall of Fame was a dick move.
My god you are seriously fucking delusional, Rock gave the fans exactly what they wanted, he cut an epic promo in typical Rock like fashion, that was the WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF HIM BEING THERE!!!!, inducting his father and grandfather were the incentives Rock got in exchange, oh and Rock was cutting promo like that through pretty much his entire fucking wrestling career, funny how you never seemed to have a problem with it before
5. As I said in the thread, both had potentially a lot to lose by defending wrestling publicly after Benoit tried to destroy the entire business. Rock ignored wrestling, Jericho defended it. Jericho rebounded pretty fucking fine (his book debuted a few months later on the New York Times Bestseller list), so obviously it didn't hurt him much at all to be associated with WWE at the time.
1.) Pretty sure Benoit wasn't thinking, I'm going to go home kill my wife and kid, then hang myself just so I can destroy the business, the guy was fucked in the head from years of head trauma, not some sort of evil mastermind bent on the world wrestling destruction
2.)Why would Rock comment on it, he didn't have a relationship with Benoit at all, the two feuded like once for a month, that's about the extent of it, Rock had nothing to do with the situation at all, it makes no sense what so ever for him to comment on it, & I'm pretty sure Rock was under contract with Disney at the time, ever think maybe they told Rock to not comment on it as well?, what you want him to do jeopardize his entire post wrestling career so he can comment on the Benoit thing, please that's just beyond selfish
If Chris Jericho spends the next 7 years completely away from wrestling, tries to bury the entire roster at one point, then comes back and tells the wrestling fans that he has always loved them, I'd feel the same way. Thankfully, I highly doubt that will happen (especially the 2nd part).
Rock left for 7 yrs. cause he did what every fucking wrestler wishes to accomplish when they leave the business and that's become success in another field, but unlike anybody else who has ever tried he succeeded, everyone else needs to return to wrestling because they fail at doing what the Rock was able to do, he NEVER ONCE buried the entire roster, you beleive that than you might just very well be the stupidest wrestling fan on the fucking planet, and pretty sure th Rock would never have come back at all if he didn't love the fans, he certainly didn't need the money, unlike say Chris Jericho...
