All Elite Wrestling star Chris Jericho has claimed Mike Tyson is risking his own legacy with a rumoured boxing return.
The former world champion – whose storyline issues with the sports icon go back to his WWE days – has hit out at the idea of a proper comeback to combat sport at this stage in his career.
Speaking to Wrestlezone’s Bill Pritchard, he said: ‘The aura and the mystique of Mike Tyson is back.
‘He looks great, you’ve seen his sparring videos, he moves fast, he’s ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson again. Probably one of the worst things you could do is put him in an actual boxing match.
‘Maybe if it’s somebody in his own era and doing kind of an exhibition and that sort of thing, but we want to keep Mike Tyson’s aura at a maximum which is why AEW is perfect for him.’
“Iron” Mike did appear for AEW last month, confronting Jericho on Dynamite days after his debut at Double Or Nothing.
Now, Jericho has insised their rivalry could ‘go all the way’.
He added: ‘Mike has been an enforcer, Mike has thrown a punch that has knocked somebody out—which is me—and Mike’s been involved in this wild and wooly brawl.
‘The one thing he has never done is have a match, and I think this is the perfect time for him.’
The AGE-year-old star pointed out the nature of professional wrestling means Tyson can be ‘whatever’ the show needs him to be.
‘We can do whatever storyline we choose and wrestling is all shapes and sizes, we can do whatever we need to do and plug him into any situation that we want to make it, he explained.
‘I think there’s no better person for that than Chris Jericho after all these years of doing this who is kind of a ‘Mike Tyson’ of wrestling.’
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