Chris Jericho Discusses The Origin Of His Southpaw Regional Wrestling Character

AEW wrestler Chris Jericho was part of the WWE-produced Southpaw Regional Wrestling spoof series, and he discussed the origin of his character Clint Bobski on the latest episode of Talk is Jericho.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below.

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.”

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