More on Kevin Owens being pulled from live events and when he'll start, Chris Jericho news, more
- As we first noted yesterday, Kevin Owens was pulled from this weekend's WWE live events. Owens is now slated to start working WWE live events the weekend after the Money In The Bank pay-per-view, starting with the live event at the The Dow Event Center in Saginaw, MI on Friday, June 19th.
- Just a reminder that you can get Kevin Owens' new merch, including the brand new "Fight Owens Fight" t-shirt, at WWEShop.com by clicking here. Also, for this weekend only you can take an extra 40% off sale items at WWEShop.com by clicking here and using code SALE40 at checkout.
- WAPT News 16 has a short article here about tonight's WWE live event in Jackson, MS.
- Glide Magazine has an interview at this link with Chris Jericho, who starts working WWE live events starting with next weekend's show at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, IL. While the interview was mostly about music, Jericho was asked if he ever wanted to do one thing and talked about always wanting to be a wrestler and a rock star.
"When I was a kid I wanted to be in a rock band and I wanted to be a wrestler," Jericho said. "Twelve years old I started playing in bands and I love rock & roll and I love music, I love playing and I also really love wrestling. I kind of thought I could probably do that too. It's something I had a real passion for. There's never been like one or the other. It's always been a duality there whereas I believe in both and I love both and I've done both my entire life. It's not like I started in music when Fozzy started. I was playing in high school bands and garage bands since I was twelve years old so it's something I have always done. Even when I started wrestling, I still played and recorded demos and played in bands and did what I could. So it's just always something that I've done. There're two halves to what I do career-wise and I don't see the difference between the two. They are both very much based in an entertainment element; a live, grooving off of the audience, very hard hitting, aggressive forms of entertainment that are both very contingent on the energy that you get from the crowd. And that's kind of the same properties that I use as the frontman of Fozzy, the same properties I use when I'm wrestling. It's making that connection with the audience and that's the most important thing."