In an interview with Sporting News, Chris Jericho spoke about the writing process for his third book The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea. Here are highlights:
On reliving his feud with Shawn Michaels from 2008: “When I went back and actually Googled the feud and found a couple timelines of it that some guys had put together and to read through that was like wow, I had really forgotten some of the intricacies of that storyline. And I was reliving it myself to go back and re-remember all of that stuff so I could write it down. So this one, I could actually go back and read everything that happened which in some ways is good, some ways is bad. But I’m sure a lot of details in the Michaels-Jericho feud would have been left out had I not had the option and the luxury to go back and relive it myself. I think it was a good way to write the book to use the Internet as a tool to help me remember some things I had forgotten.”
On his third autobiography: “Do I really need a third autobiography? At the time I was 40, 41 years old. (President Richard) Nixon has one autobiography, I have three? What am I going to put in this thing? Then, I realized I always had the Shawn Michaels feud, the (Rey) Mysterio feud, the trips to Iraq, the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ thing. I knew there was enough there that I could at least get a good start. And then when I actually sat down and starting writing, adding the resurrection of Fozzy, hosting Golden Gods and all the minutiae of my life I did have way more than I needed to the point I was editing stuff out.”
On what the book contains: “It’s the story of my life from everything I’m doing. I think a lot of people who were a little resistant to that in Undisputed welcomed that in Best in the World because whether you like music or like wrestling of like Dancing with the Stars or like just adventurous tales, there plenty of them in all shapes and forms. I always try to get all my fans to understand there’s more to life and more to my life than just wrestling. If you’re a fan of mine you have to expect that and accept it but know that you’re going to like it because I wouldn’t write about it if it wasn’t entertaining.”
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