Brock Lesnar’s part time status is always a hot topic in the world of professional wrestling.
Lesnar has been the Universal Champion since WrestleMania 33 last year, but he’s only defended his title a handful of times.
Chris Jericho recently said on The Ross Report that he’s kind of like the Brock Lesnar of New Japan, because he won the IWGP Intercontinental Championship and then just disappeared.
Jericho also went on to say that he admires Brock Lesnar for getting a favorable deal, because it shows that there’s more money to be made in the professional wrestling industry.
“I think a lot of people have animosity towards [Lesnar] because of that [favorable deal], but I don’t,” Jericho said via Wrestling Inc. “I admire the guy. I would like that deal and I’m not so sure that I won’t get a deal like that at some point. At least in New Japan I did, so I remember years ago someone said, ‘you can’t blame,’ I think they were talking about [Hulk] Hogan when Hogan had that huge deal with WCW and he got a percentage of the pay-per-views and he was making this money, they’re like, ‘you can’t blame Hogan for getting the deal.’ You can’t blame freakin’ LeBron James for going to [NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers] for $40 million for two years. Blame the company! Blame the owners! Blame the team! Blame the company! Blame Vince [McMahon]! Don’t blame the guy [who received the favorable deal]. Yeah, I’m always happy for the [performers], whoever they are, whether you like them or you don’t like them when they make good money because I still think for years, if you’re liking at the NFL, NBA, NHL, WWE salary caps, who’s making the least amount of money percentage-wise? It’s always the WWE [performers], so anybody to can make really, really good money in the [pro] wrestling business, I never hold any animosity towards them because it just means if they can make more money, I can make more money too at some point.”
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