By Alan Davies
Thursday, Mar 10, 2011
9:32 PM
WWE wrestling fable and new Dancing With The Stars competitor Chris Jericho will be entrance to Knebworth House this summer after his steel rope Fozzy were reliable for a 2011 Sonisphere Festival.
AS a pro wrestler, Chris Jericho needs small introduction.
Famed for signature moves The Walls of Jericho and The Lionsault, he’s faced – and beaten – a best in a business over a past 20 years, including Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Stone Cold Steve Austin on a same night.
One of a many renouned names in wrestling, a Canadian became a initial ever undisputed champion of WWF in 2001 and is a usually performer to have hold 6 opposite titles in a 48-year story of what is now called World Wrestling Entertainment.
Aside from his countless achievements in a ring, Jericho is also an actor, radio personality, author (his new book Undisputed: How to Become a World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps is already on a UK tough cover bestseller list), radio horde and, maybe slightest famous outward a steel fraternity, a bona fide stone star.
And it is in this final guise that a 40-year-old son of former National Hockey League star Ted Irvine will pound down during Knebworth House this Jul for a UK leg of a furloughed Sonisphere Festival.
His stone band, Fozzy, will perform alongside steel titans Slipknot and a recently reunited strange Limp Bizkit choice on a final day of a song whack on Sunday, Jul 10.
Wrestling and stone have a long, intertwined story – usually consider of a loud, pumping song a wrestlers enter a locus to.
And it was this healthy partnership that led to Jericho teaming adult with Stuck Mojo guitarist Rich Ward to emanate Fozzy.
As lead thespian for a complicated steel band, Jericho is gay to be on a same check as thrash’s mythological Big 4 – Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax.
“To be personification on a same festival as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax is literally a dream come true,” pronounced Jericho.
“What’s even better, is that we get to do it in England, that is like a second home, and uncover a UK how most we conclude their faithfulness and support.”
No strangers to these shores, Knebworth will be Fozzy’s third outing to a UK in a past year, after a group’s sold-out tours in Mar and Oct 2010 to support Chasing a Grail, their fourth studio album.
With a likes of Motörhead and steel pioneers Diamond Head also on a Knebworth poster, a Fozzy frontman added: “This is certain to be a biggest festival of a summer, and we are stoked to browbeat and destroy a masses in full Fozzy fashion, and as usually Fozzy can do – we’re entrance to widespread a Fozzpel!”
Before afterwards though, Jericho will be swapping both his spandex wrestling rigging and tough stone leathers for something a small some-more worldly – in a ballroom!
For a multi-talented performer has usually been reliable for a subsequent array of Dancing With The Stars, America’s chronicle of Strictly Come Dancing, being partnered with two-time champion Cheryl Burke.
On Twitter, Jericho tweeted final week: “With Fozzy during Sonisphere and a DWTS proclamation it was a HUGE day for Team Jericho! As always I’m gonna do my best to browbeat any one..”
You wouldn’t gamble opposite him achieving that either.
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