Chris Jericho has opened up about some of his health issues that fans noticed on-screen in AEW.
During one part of his career, Jericho was mocked by fans for his weight gain, which was part of a medical issue the former World Champion was suffering from.
On the latest “Talk is Jericho” podcast, Jericho explained his Pulmonary Embolism which he suffered from in late 2021:
“They send you to everything. You talk about a hematologist, a colonoscopy — every single thing that you don’t do because, ‘Oh, I’ll just do it later,’ I did. Every health procedure that you need to do, I did.
“And one of the things was I went on this intricate scale and the scale kind of measures everything. One of the things it measured is your visceral fat. Well, what’s visceral fat? Visceral fat is the fat that surrounds your organs, and the doctor said, ‘You need to lose some visceral fat.”
Jericho also explained his impressive weight loss, saying:
“Go back to New Year’s Eve, I was with my wife at the Don Cesar in Tampa … We met a couple there, where the guy had just opened a medical weight loss clinic in Tampa.
I went in there and I was 241 lbs… The place is called Options. I wanted to lose 10 lbs.; I lost 11 lbs. in the first week and I thought, ‘Well, let me stick with it and see how it goes.’ I currently weigh 209 lbs., so I lost 32 lbs. since January, and that was by about April that I was down to that. That’s when the big weight loss happened when everyone was like, ‘Oh my god, Jericho’s in great shape.’”
On this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, Jericho accepted the challenge to a “Barbed Wire Everywhere” match made by Eddie Kingston.
