Lee Moriarty & Chris Jericho Discuss Why Pro Wrestling Is A Sport, Wanting It In The Olympics

Lee Moriarty and Chris Jericho recently took to Jericho’s podcast, “Talk Is Jericho,” to discuss several professional wrestling topics.

The pair discussed why professional wrestling is a real sport, and Jericho touched on why he thinks it should be in the Olympics.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

Moriarty on if pro wrestling is a sport:

“So I see it as a sport because people think whatever they want, it’s predetermined and all this stuff, or its a routine. But gymnastics is a routine, and that’s a sport. And even if you don’t wanna say that, we are competing as a team together in that ring against the other matches or whatever show might be running against us. It’s a sport, we’re athletes.”

Jericho on wanting pro wrestling to be an Olympic sport:

“This is one of my all-time goals, and I’ve set a few goals in my life that I’ve achieved. I literally want to go in front of the IOC — the International Olympic Community — and pitch pro wrestling as an Olympic sport. Now, you might go, ‘How can you do that? It’s all–‘ Now hold on, stop right there.

Gymnastics, pairs gymnastics, figure skating, pairs figure skating; what is that? It’s two people working together to put on the best performance possible. Then the judges give you a score, and if you’re a doubles figure skater — which is one of the top-rated sports in the Winter Olympics — America finished first, Russia second, Japan is third. There is no way we could not do the same with pro wrestling.”