Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho is a professional wrestler, musician, podcast host, and author. His wrestling career has included work in several countries and promotions, including WWE and All Elite Wrestling. He became WWE’s first Undisputed Champion after defeating The Rock and Steve Austin on the same night in 2001. He is also the lead singer of the rock band Fozzy and hosts the podcast Talk Is Jericho.

His books include a sequence of memoirs about his wrestling and music careers, a collection of career advice, and a record of his first thirty years of matches. The memoirs follow successive periods, beginning with his training and work outside WWE and continuing into his years as an established performer. His match-history book draws on a handwritten journal in which he recorded the contests he worked throughout his career.

Jericho is the son of former National Hockey League player Ted Irvine. His career has brought six WWE world championships as well as work in music and broadcasting. He has three children with his wife, Jessica.

Wrestling Memoirs

A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex: Jericho describes his childhood ambition to become a professional wrestler and the years he spent pursuing it before joining WWE. His account follows training, travel, and work in smaller promotions and international wrestling circuits. Encounters with promoters, dangerous matches, and the practical problems of finding work form part of the narrative. The memoir concludes with his WWE debut, establishing the earlier career covered before the events of Undisputed.

Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps: Continuing from the WWE debut that ended A Lion’s Tale, Jericho describes his move into a major American wrestling organization and his progress toward becoming its Undisputed Champion. The memoir covers the professional adjustments, backstage relationships, and setbacks that accompanied greater visibility. It also follows his efforts to maintain a music career with Fozzy, showing how touring, recording, and wrestling competed for his time.

The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea: Jericho’s third memoir follows further episodes from his wrestling, music, and entertainment careers. It includes his WWE relationships and rivalries, work with Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio, and CM Punk, and encounters with Vince McMahon. Away from wrestling, he recounts performing with Fozzy, meeting musicians, and appearing on Dancing with the Stars. The book combines these events with accounts of the complications of working across several entertainment businesses.

Career Advice and Match History

No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life: Jericho organizes advice from his wrestling and music careers into twenty lessons about pursuing professional goals. Each principle is linked to an incident or a person he encountered, including Vince McMahon, Gene Simmons, David Bowie, and his father, hockey player Ted Irvine. The book discusses work habits, presentation, reinvention, persistence, and responses to rejection, using stories from entertainment to explain how Jericho arrived at those conclusions.

The Complete List of Jericho: 30 Years of Smashes, Matches & Hits: This illustrated career record draws on Jericho’s handwritten log of 2,722 matches over thirty years. It combines the match list with photographs, statistics, commentary, and ranked selections compiled by Jericho and other wrestling figures. Topics include opponents, tag-team partners, entrance music, and memorable performances. The structure documents the range of his wrestling work across promotions and countries rather than continuing the chronological prose format of his earlier memoirs.