WWE legend Chris Jericho has warned rival Mike Tyson that a boxing comeback would be “one of the worst things you could do”.
The boxing icon has been whipping fans into frenzy with numerous clips showing his stunning physique and training over recent weeks.
Mike Tyson’s boxing comeback has been slammed by WWE legend and current AEW wrestling star Chris Jericho
Despite turning 54 later this month, the former heavyweight champion is planning a comeback into the ring.
A trilogy fight with long-term rival Evander Holyfield or an exhibition clash with Shannon Briggs have both been speculated.
Tyson Fury is another who claims to have been offered a match with the veteran, while AEW wrestling star Jericho has also called out the Baddest Man On The Planet after they clashed inside the ring last month.
But Y2J, who was KOed by Iron Mike in WWE a decade ago, has hit out at the veteran for considering a boxing return and says he is risking his own legacy.
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.”
Jericho, 49, continues to call out Tyson with the two potentially set to clash again inside the squared-circle.
And he was quick to point out that the nature of wrestling enables Tyson to be “whatever” the show needs him to be.
The Ayatollah of Rock N’ Roller said: “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.
“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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Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
