Chris Jericho On the Origin Of His Southpaw Regional Wrestling Character

Chris Jericho was part of the spoof series Southpaw Regional Wrestling, and he recently explained the origin of his character on the show. Jericho portrayed interviewer Clint Bobski in the series of WWE-produced videos for the WWE Network, and he talked about where the character came from on the latest Talk is Jericho. You can check out some highlights below, per Wrestling Inc:

On Clint Bobski’s origins: “Clint Bobski has been in existence since 1989. When I was too young to go to wrestling school … I went to Red River Community College and took creative communications which is advertising, PR, journalism, television, radio, creative writing, basically everything that I still do, and we used to do like mock sportscasts for television class. I was always Bobski, it was a name I just loved.”

On trademarking the character when WWE didn’t: “[I looked into at the trademark office and] guess who had not trademarked the Bobski name or any of his family members? WWE… Clint Bobski is my intellectual property.”