Jericho "suspended indefinitely"

Fenian Army · 26-05-2012 01:42AM

Thats funny because JBL loves rugby and spends his time these days training kids to play it

Africa · 26-05-2012 01:52AM

ahhh thats a pain

unfortunate to see, end of the day, he's a good entertainer and a great wrestler still. Hopefully he will return soon.

jaykhunter · 26-05-2012 03:25AM

Some tweets by HBK :

Wow, waking up to find twitter blaming me for an apparent suspension of @IAmJericho

Seems to me I'd blame the horrific PC world we've allowed ourselves to be caught up in where you can't "act" & have it called "acting." BS!!

I'll stand behind @IAmJericho any day of the week & twice on Sunday...what's the big "E" stand for in WWE anyway!!

LOL at the first one! Everyone must've used his Series' entrance as evidence that it was BS :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 26-05-2012 03:38AM

Darkest Horse wrote: »

What a storm in a teacup. If someone was to deliberately disrespect the flag outside the context of an entertainment show I could see the problem. It must be something in the water down that way. When the Ireland rugby team toured Argentina in the 80s, Willie Anderson was jailed for a period of time for taking an Argentine flag from a pole. Funnily enough, also in relation to rugby, I was at a house show in 2006 where JBL had apparently seen the Irish team beat South Africa that weekend and he called the sport "gay" and said some controversial things about Northern Ireland. Nobody took any of this seriously and he had the crowd in hysterics. If anything it showed that he had some cultural awareness unlike those idiots Cryme Tyme at a London taping: "Those euros, euros, yeah, yeah". JBL seems a well traveled educated guy and if you read Jericho's books you get the same impression.

To underline the whole issue, I recently had a call from a yank friend of mine who is working with JBL in running an after school rugby programme for underprivileged kids.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2011/11/25/19020911.html

I'm sure Chris Jericho will be appreciating the beauty of Brazilian culture, women and football on his enforced break.

Oh yes JBL is a well traveled and educated guy, he makes a good point in his facebook page where he says his goose step in Germany was merely treated as part of a wrestling show and nothing more. The problem is when you travel to these underdeveloped south American countries the performers forget that they've left the civilised world and are in nations where the bloody flag still means more than the people. An elaborate pretense of patriotism when their third world dump continues to sink.

26-05-2012 03:45AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Oh yes JBL is a well traveled and educated guy, he makes a good point in his facebook page where he says his goose step in Germany was merely treated as part of a wrestling show and nothing more. The problem is when you travel to these underdeveloped south American countries the performers forget that they've left the civilised world and are in nations where the bloody flag still means more than the people. An elaborate pretense of patriotism when their third world dump continues to sink.

Amazing how much of that applies to the US.

Stereomaniac · 26-05-2012 08:44AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Oh yes JBL is a well traveled and educated guy, he makes a good point in his facebook page where he says his goose step in Germany was merely treated as part of a wrestling show and nothing more. The problem is when you travel to these underdeveloped south American countries the performers forget that they've left the civilised world and are in nations where the bloody flag still means more than the people. An elaborate pretense of patriotism when their third world dump continues to sink.

Woah, man. You wanna tread a little more softly there? Wasn't that long ago that the Irish were seen as the lowest of the low.

rovert · 26-05-2012 09:54AM

"Guayaquil is a rad city-sorry I couldnt perform for u guys tonight! Had a police escort to airport tho
#publicenemyno1 http://t.co/i6ZOc9Rs"

:cool:

gnfnrhead · 26-05-2012 02:30PM

Is it just me or does his head always look massive compared to his body? Ego? :pac:

Captain Morgan Freeman · 26-05-2012 08:34PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Oh yes JBL is a well traveled and educated guy, he makes a good point in his facebook page where he says his goose step in Germany was merely treated as part of a wrestling show and nothing more. The problem is when you travel to these underdeveloped south American countries the performers forget that they've left the civilised world and are in nations where the bloody flag still means more than the people. An elaborate pretense of patriotism when their third world dump continues to sink.

Perhaps you should do some research on Brazil before you start making such outrageous claims.

snowserpeant · 18-06-2012 10:43PM

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Cant tell if its kayfabe or legit. But its all very convenient for Jericho to get time off to leave to tour with Fozzy.

He did the classic heel move of stomping and walking on the flag, but apparently thats a crime in brazil and actually illegal unlike most other countries, but im sure WWE would know this before hand, as they've been to brazil many times before right?

Its probably just a clever way of writing him out of his storyline, whatever it is now.

speaking of breaking laws through stupidity [and outdated laws],under uk law if you deface a picture of the queen on bank notes you can technically be arrested and charged with treason and thats punishable by hanging:eek:

grames_bond · 19-06-2012 12:16PM

Chris Jericho returns next monday!!

television · 19-06-2012 02:32PM

so much for his "indefinate suspension".tbh did anybody really think this was going to happen [i mean the suspension,not him returning next monday]:D

thomond2006 · 19-06-2012 03:05PM

Indefinite is indefinite, I think too many people link indefinite with long term.

Stereomaniac · 19-06-2012 03:13PM

Well said. But I think the suspension was moreso to just save face, and it tied in with Fozzy.

Stereomaniac · 19-06-2012 03:13PM

Well said. But I think the suspension was moreso to just save face, and it tied in with Fozzy.

television · 19-06-2012 03:20PM

exactly,indefinate means no time limit,it does not mean permanent.it could be a day,it could be ten years...its lifted when its lifted and yes i also think it was more to save face than anything else

Charisteas · 19-06-2012 03:36PM

He was given 30 days and that expires this weekend. Whether or not that was an official suspension or just pandering to the sponsors who knows.

Fozzy also have a 6 week tour coming up in August/September but it won't interfere with any Summerslam plans they have for him. I'd say at Summerslam we'll see the Jericho/Orton match which was supposed to happen at No Way Out.

television · 19-06-2012 04:00PM

with a little bit of luck:)

Cactus Colm · 19-06-2012 04:05PM

The JBL goose stepping incident is one thing, but people should also remember a much more recent incident when a worker was punished after an incident at a house show.

Finlay was fired after he had Miz interrupt the American National Anthem at a house show, causing the National Guard to complain to the WWE.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/3/29/2079133/david-fit-finlay-fired-by-wwe-due-to-complaint-from-sponsor

Saveus.222 · 19-06-2012 11:08PM

television wrote: »

so much for his "indefinate suspension".tbh did anybody really think this was going to happen [i mean the suspension,not him returning next monday]:D

A day or so after the indefinite suspension was announced it was commuted down to 30 days.
He has been missed over the past 30 days...

gnfnrhead · 19-06-2012 11:10PM

Saveus.222 wrote: »

He has been missed over the past 30 days...

How? What exactly could he have done that would have improved anything?

Stereomaniac · 19-06-2012 11:14PM

He could've taken on Sheamus at No Way Out and done more of his cowardly stuff. I like that.

gnfnrhead · 19-06-2012 11:37PM

Stereomaniac wrote: »

He could've taken on Sheamus at No Way Out and done more of his cowardly stuff. I like that.

Then what would have happened with Del Rio? He'd have started feuding with Sheamus before Del Rio got injured, meaning he'd have to do something else.

JohnMarston · 20-06-2012 12:13AM

grames_bond wrote: »

Chris Jericho returns next monday!!

Its the end of the world as you know it....again

I miss the christmas light jacket anyhow

Saveus.222 · 22-06-2012 09:38PM

gnfnrhead wrote: »

How? What exactly could he have done that would have improved anything?

I'm a total Y2J mark so I really can't see this objectively from your perspective. For me, Jericho just being there improves the quality of RAW immensely.
Apparently hes coming back as a face, so heres hoping we ge the old countdown intro.

real_irishken · 22-06-2012 09:50PM

Do WWE even care about Canada. I mean they go there for about 3 months of the calender year. I seem to remember Shawn Michaels sticking the flag up his nose and doing other disgusting acts with it. And something else I can't understand is how many Americans are saying to WWE to not take it so seriously. I was over there a couple of years ago and the National Anthem was playing at a baseball game and everyone stood up saluting bar us irish guys and we got so much stick for 'not respecting' America's honour bullsh*t. Vent over aaaahhahhh.

Stereomaniac · 23-06-2012 01:20AM

I think Shawn Michaels got away with the flag thing because that night, it was the least of anyone's worries!

jaykhunter · 23-06-2012 01:55PM

I'd say Canadians aren't muppets & get that wrestling is a show, and Michaels is a heel; same can't be said about the Brazilian Government. JBL came over to Ireland and told us "you'll never get those 6 counties back! You're England's b!tch" etc and got massive heat, good-natured as everybody bloody knows it's a show.

Great to have Jericho back though. I've lots of time for Jericho on WWE TV.

Mr.Saturn · 23-06-2012 03:48PM

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I think Shawn Michaels got away with the flag thing because that night, it was the least of anyone's worries!

It's also a case of flag desecration not being a criminal offence in Canada, whereas it's very much so in Brazil. The promise of a Jericho suspension was enough to placate the Brazilian authorities from pursuing the matter any further, as to do so, would potentially jeopardize WWE's chances at later returning to the rather lucrative Brazilian market.

It might finally encourage WWE's live-event squad to finally research national laws or indeed native-tics, pertaining to what is and what isn't fair game for heat. A measure I feel they should've taken nearly a decade ago, when JBL got into a world of the proverbial by goose-stepping at a house show in Germany. Or, indeed, anytime a heel try to get heat in Belfast with a pro-British schtick, and getting somewhat flabbergasted when a sizable portion of the crowd responds warmly. It's in the interests of the business, really.

Charisteas · 23-06-2012 06:56PM

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

The promise of a Jericho suspension was enough to placate the Brazilian authorities from pursuing the matter any further, as to do so, would potentially jeopardize WWE's chances at later returning to the rather lucrative Brazilian market.

Not quite sure how lucrative the Brazilian market really is to WWE, only 5000-6000 were at the house show in a city of 11.3 million people.

Jericho "suspended indefinitely"

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