Chris Jericho On Why He Finds It Insulting When People Call Him Y2J

Chris Jericho has been in the professional wrestling business for a long time, and over the years he’s mastered the art of reinventing himself.

Fans can expect Jericho to throw out several new nicknames and catchphrases every year, and of course at one point Y2J was one of his most popular nicknames.

During a recent episode of his Saturday Night Special Jericho noted that he likes Y2J, but he explained why he can never go back to it.

“Of course I [like Y2J]. Could I ever go back to it? No. And when people still refer to me as Y2J, I’m like, ‘Dude, that was ten years ago’. And that was one of the things with why I always insisted on morphing, and updating, and evolving as a character. If you call me Y2J now, it’s an almost an insult to me because that was such a long time ago.”

“That would be like an actor, like if you were Brad Pitt. If you liked Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the last Quentin Tarantino movie, [Brad was] Stuntman Cliff, and he was doing a live show and people were yelling out, ‘Thelma and Louise! Thelma and Louise!’ It’s like, ‘Dude, that was f–king twenty years ago. I’ve done so many things since then that when you say Thelma and Louise, it’s almost an insult. Stick with the new things.’ So, I loved Y2J at the time. I do not appreciate being called Y2J now.”

So there you have it. If you run into Chris Jericho it’s probably best to not refer to the Demo God as Y2J.

H/T Wrestling Inc.