Chris Jericho recently appeared on AEW’s Canadian broadcast partner TSN and spoke about the difference between AEW and other promotions.
The interview was filmed shortly after the recent Dynamite held in Nashville. Jericho and Sammy Guevara dropped a tag team title match to SCU on the show. Jericho was asked about the match to begin the interview.
“Well, obviously I won and if I didn’t win, do you think I’d say otherwise?” Jericho distorted the truth. “I am le Champion and needless to say, I captivated the Nashville crowd here and they are holding a parade in my honor tomorrow.”
Jericho was also asked about the differences between the many wrestling organizations active today.
“I think the biggest difference between all the companies is there’s just a lot more of a sense of creative freedom in AEW,” Jericho said on the show. “It’s more really ‘live without a net’ and when we say live TV, it really is. A lot less planning, which sometimes things go off the rails but always in a good way.”
“I think when things are over-analyzed and over-thought it becomes a little bit sterile, and a little bit saccharine,” Jericho continued. “We don’t have that in AEW so it’s a lot more a wild west mentality.”
The hosts of the show also noted that the ratings for AEW in Canada have been quite good. This was also noted by AEW President Tony Khan during the post-Full Gear media scrum. Khan also said they hope to throw events in Canada in 2020.
Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara are not the new AEW Tag Team Champions as SCU remains on top.
The AEW World Heavyweight Champion and highly praised prospect failed to capture the gold when they lost to SCU in a non-title match on Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT.
If Jericho and Guevara would’ve won then not only did it mark the second set of champions in the history of the titles but also that The Inner Circle would’ve held all of the male titles in the promotion at the moment. That wasn’t the case though.
SCU (Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) won the titles when the promotion held the finals of the Tag Team Title Tournament on the October 30th episode of AEW Dynamite in Charleston, WV at the Charleston Coliseum. SoCal Uncensored beat The Lucha Bros to win the titles.
SCU just made their previous title defense, which was at the AEW Full Gear pay-per-view event from the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland over the weekend.
This is where they beat Private Party and Lucha Brothers in a Triple Threat Match.
Also, at this show, Jericho successfully retained the AEW World Title over Cody Rhodes in the co-main event when he had Rhodes in the Walls of Jericho and MJF threw in the towel.
Shortly after the conclusion of AEW Full Gear last night in Baltimore, both Chris Jericho and AEW President Tony Khan told media there would be a tag-team title match this Wednesday on Dynamite. Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara will take on SCU for the belts.
Tony Khan confirmed the match last night during the Full Gear post-event media scrum.
“This week on Dynamite, it will be Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara versus Scorpio Sky and Kazarian for the tag team titles and we’ll see if the Inner Circle can take all the championships in AEW and it was big for Chris, it was a big night, it was his birthday. For him to lay down the challenge, I think SCU wants the match and that’s a huge match for Dynamite,” Tony Khan said.
Also during his post-event media scrum, Jericho took issue with the AEW tag team rankings, noting he and Sammy Guevara are undefeated when teaming together.
“I think that the rankings for the tag team division is a bunch of s**t because Sammy Guevara and Chris Jericho are undefeated as a tag team and we’re not even in the top-5,” Jericho said.
Khan would also confirm that another match between Hangman Page and PAC will take place on this week’s Dynamite.
“Hangman Page came in and he wants a rubber match with PAC and the last time they were in the scrum it went very differently,” Khan said regarding the match. “Even though he won tonight and a lot of people thought he’d feel like he settled it, he feels like there’s unsettled business so that’s definitely going to be another huge match on Dynamite.”
AEW Dynamite 11/13 Lineup – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
AEW Tag Team Championships: SCU (c) vs Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara (Inner Circle)
Last night at AEW Full Gear in Baltimore, Chris Jericho successfully defended the AEW World Championship against Cody. The match ended when Cody’s cornerman, MJF, threw in the towel while the champ had the challenger locked in a Lion Tamer. Jericho spoke to the media following his victory.
“He was going to give up anyway, that’s a pretty stupid question, of course, I’m satisfied,” Jericho said when asked if he was satisfied with the victory. “I’m still le Champion. I don’t want this to be stuck on the fact that MJF threw a towel in the ring because if you saw what happened, Cody was beat up, bleeding all over the f***ing place, plus he was so tied up like a pretzel, there was no escape. So throw the towel in, don’t throw the towel in but don’t diminish the victory that Chris Jericho had over Cody Rhodes tonight.”
When asked if MJF could possibly join Jericho’s Inner Circle Faction, here is what Le Champion had to say:
“There’s always room for more as long as they’re as good as all the guys in my Inner Circle. MJF would be a probable candidate, a possible candidate whether the events happened tonight or not. We’re always looking for good members because like I said we’re taking control of AEW.”
Jericho also talked about the type of bubbly he would go with for his victory celebration, what he said to Dean Malenko, and the inspiration he received from the Living Legend Soultrain Jones while in the Olive Garden. The full media scrum can be viewed in the player below:
Cody Rhodes wasn’t the wrestler to dethrone Chris Jericho as AEW World Heavyweight Champion.
Jericho successfully retained the title over Rhodes in the headliner of the AEW Full Gear pay-per-view event from the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. The three judges for the contest were Great Muta, Arn Anderson, and Dean Malenko.
The stipulation coming into this match was the fact that if Cody didn’t beat Jericho then he will never allow himself to challenge for the AEW World Title again. MJF threw in the towel while Jericho had Cody in the Walls of Jericho, which resulted in the finish.
Post-match, MJF kicked him in the nuts and stood over Cody.
This contest was set up due to Rhodes having the best singles record in the promotion at the time as All Elite Wrestling protected his character on-screen to elevate him as the top babyface title challenger.
Jericho became the inaugural AEW World Heavyweight Champion when he beat Hangman Page in the headliner of the All Out pay-per-view event back in August at the Sears Centre Arena in Chicago.
At this same show, while on the undercard, Cody defeated Shawn Spears to improve his singles match record.
What are your thoughts on Chris Jericho retaining the AEW World Heavyweight Title? Was this the right call by AEW officials? Sound off in the comment section.
All Elite Wrestling World Champion Chris Jericho has stated that the promotion is no longer hiring new talent at this point in time. “Le Champion” divulged the information during an interview with ScreenGeek.
“We’re not looking to hire anybody else right now,” Jericho shared. “If someone comes along that makes sense, we will, but we have so much talent that people don’t even know, they don’t even know the Young Bucks yet! That’s what I’m saying, you have to understand, this is our first show, you can’t assume that everyone knows who these guys are.”
He continued, “I haven’t been on TV for two years. What’s the first line I ever said on AEW TV? ‘My name is Chris Jericho, and I am the champion of AEW’. That pretty much tells the tale. ‘Oh, who is that guy? Oh, he’s the champion?’ Boom. Done. It’s like a good movie poster that tells you what it is.”
Rather than inflate their roster with every available free agent, Jericho believes it’s more important to establish those who already a part of the promotion.
“[…] it’s really important to establish who these guys are, so that when people see them they’ll freak out as to why they’ve never heard of them before and just how good they are because they’ve been doing this for years and chose NOT to go to WWE. The secret to AEW is that we all have passion to be here because we want to be.”
Jericho defends his AEW World Championship against Cody Rhodes at AEW’s next pay-per-view Full Gear on November 9th.
Cody Rhodes had been hyping up the fact that he would be making a career announcement.
Rhodes did so on Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT when he revealed a stipulation for his match against AEW World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho at AEW Full Gear.
This is where he cut a promo about how if he doesn’t beat Jericho at this show then he will never challenge for the title again. The reason for this was due to hearing the criticisms of him being in a title match and an AEW Executive Vice President. Rhodes’ promo was highly praised by fans on social media.
The AEW Full Gear pay-per-view event will take place on Saturday, November 9th from the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland and has already sold out.
AEW Full Gear Card
AEW World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho vs. Cody Rhodes – if Cody loses, he won’t ever challenge for the world title again
Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley – Unsanctioned Lights Out Match
The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson) vs. LAX (Santana & Ortiz) – Tag Team Match
Adam Page vs. PAC – Singles Match
Britt Baker vs. Bea Priestley – Singles Match
AEW Women’s Champion Riho vs. Emu Sakura
What are your thoughts on this stipulation being added to the card? Sound off in the comment section.
Chris Jericho opened up in an interview with SportsKeeda about why he didn’t think that Randy Orton was actually going to end up in AEW after all.
This comes after Orton had teased on social media that he could be leaving WWE for the rival promotion. That speculation came to a close when he signed a new deal with WWE.
According to Jericho, he never thought that Orton would leave and it all comes down to money unless Orton was dead set on leaving.
“I can’t say anything about it because I don’t know anything about it, no-one’s calling me to tell me about these things. But I know this – nobody is getting out of WWE, especially Randy Orton, because unless he’s very, very committed to saying ‘I don’t care if you pay me 20 gazillion dollars I’m leaving’ that’s not what he’s doing. I mean, obviously Vince is going to pay millions and millions of dollars to not have Randy Orton go.”
Jericho would sidetrack away from Orton to talk about how there are some guys who do want to leave WWE. He brought up how AEW is trying to avoid becoming old-school TNA where practically every notable WWE star to be release would come to the promotion. He brought up how Jon Moxley did make the move because he was done and ready to go.
“If you’re using AEW to make more money off of Vince, go for it! That’s great too but it’s not like we’re taking everybody that’s going to leave WWE to come to AEW.”
The reason for that is due to the guys working for WWE now got huge raises instead of going to the independent circle to make 500 bucks a night.
“The point is that Vince just doesn’t want anybody to leave WWE because it looks like an exodus if they do and makes us look even cooler. We do things our way, we’ve got a great roster of guys and if somebody becomes available that really wants to be with us and we think that they fit our vibe then we’ll take them.”
Jericho stated that it doesn’t mean that talent will be getting millions and millions of dollars to come because that’s not what AEW is doing. He thinks AEW has assembled an awesome roster with at least ten to twelve potential main eventers.
Jericho knows that AEW will have to build all those guys up first to build up all the mid-card guys and so on to create stars.
“But if a Randy Orton became available and said ‘I’m leaving I don’t care what’ then I’m sure we’d be really interested in talking to him and we could do great stuff. I’ll tell you what; he’ll probably be more over with us in a month than he has been in the last ten years with WWE.”
Chris Jericho welcomes Donald Trump Jr. on his Talk Is Jericho podcast later this week.
The AEW World Champion has a title defense against Cody Rhodes at AEW Full Gear this Saturday night. Ahead of Dynamite and Full gear, Jericho was in New York on Tuesday and he documented his trip on social media. Jericho first posted a photo onboard a flight and used the hashtag, #VeryImportantTalkIsJericho.
Chris Jericho’s first stop in NYC was in times square, where he paid a visit to the giant AEW Dynamite billboard bearing the likeness of Le Champion himself.
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Jericho later posted a photo with two NYPD police officers.
As seen below, he appeared to be visiting a Trump property.
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Chris Jericho & Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr., son of the President of the Untied States, revealed that Jericho’s trip was to interview him for this week’s Talk is Jericho podcast episode. Trump made the appearance to promote his new book, Triggered.
DJT Jr. called Chris Jericho a “really cool dude” and said to expect an awesome conversation.
Many fans on social media were outspoken about the appearance due to political divineness. Jericho clarified that he is is non-partisan the latest episode of TIJ is not an endorsement of any political views.
Matt and Nick Jackson, collectively known as The Young Bucks, have opened up about how instrumental Dean Malenko and All Elite Wrestling World Champion Chris Jericho have been backstage during their shows.
“Let’s Try To Give Them Something Different”
“It’s a team effort, but I would say Chris Jericho has definitely given the most pointers to us, individually, I would say” Nick Jackson shared during an episode of SiriusXM’s Busted Open Radio. “Because he’s been doing it for so long and he’s given us tips on how to make things work perfectly. He knows what he’s talking about. He’s so smart. I feel like he’s taught us the most with timing things.”
His brother, Matt Jackson, added “[…] I think the way to stay on top in wrestling is you never stop learning. So to have a guy like a Dean Malenko there, it’s so great to have these minds to just pick. Not even just that. Sometimes we’ll sit at the go position, and I’ll watch a guy like Dean, and I’ll watch the way that he produces the segment and I” ll listen to him. […] You just mentioned with the timing; he knows exactly when to time things.”
He continued, “Chris Jericho is the master at these things. He told Nick the other day, like, if you’ve got a 13-minute match, plan a kickass 13-minute match. Don’t worry too much about the break spots tonight. Let’s try to give them something different. […] We don’t want to fall into doing the same thing every week and fall into these patterns. We’re trying to be unpredictable still, and trying to find our sweet spot.”
The Young Bucks are scheduled to compete against Inner Circle members Santana and Ortiz at AEW’s next pay-per-view, Full Gear, on November 9.
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Following the events of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Power Struggle 2019 event on November 3, NJPW has announced updated cards for Wrestle Kingdom 14, their two day event at the Tokyo Dome on January 4 and 5, 2020.
NJPW conducted a 24-hour online fan vote on November 4 asking whether the fans would want to see a double championship match, with the winner becoming both IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championship. The final result was 15,952 people voting “Yes” and 9,055 people voting “No.”
With that in mind, the second day of Wrestle Kingdom 14 will feature the first ever IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental double championship match.
NJPW has stated that, when finalized, both cards will feature between 8 and 10 matches. Both days of Wrestle Kingdom 14 will be available to watch live on NJPW World.
Wrestle Kingdom 14 (January 4)
Jushin Thunder Liger Retirement Match #1: Jushin Thunder Liger, Tatsumi Fujinami, The Great Sasuke & Tiger Mask IV (with El Samurai) vs. Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhiko Takaiwa & Ryusuke Taguchi (with Kuniaki Kobayashi) (Special Referee: Norio Honaga)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Jay White (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kota Ibushi
Wrestle Kingdom 14 (January 5)
Jushin Thunder Liger Retirement Match #2: Match TBA
Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho
Singles Match: Loser of IWGP Heavyweight Championship match vs. Loser of IWGP Intercontinental Championship match from the previous day
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo) (c) vs. Roppongi 3K (SHO & YOH)
IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championship: IWGP Heavyweight Champion vs. IWGP Intercontinental Champion
Chris Jericho is back under the NJPW (New Japan Pro-Wrestling) banner and already has his next match booked.
Jericho wants to wrestle Hiroshi Tanahashi at the NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 – Night Two event and he will get his wish. The promotion did an angle at Sunday’s Power Struggle show after Kota Ibushi and Tanahashi defeated Kazuchika Okada and YOSHI-HASHI in a tag team match.
This is when a video aired of a man vaguely looking like Tanahashi and rocking out to Tanahashi’s theme song. In the video, there were people who were attacked that led to Jericho appearing in his Painmaker outfit.
Jericho issued the challenge and warned that he’ll make this Tanahashi’s last match. Tanahashi accepted, which made the match official.
This contest was first reported by SI.com back on October 2nd. The show will take place over the course of two nights inside the Tokyo Dome next year on January 4th and 5th.
Jericho last appeared for NJPW at the Dominion event in June where he lost to Okada.
Jericho makes his next title defense on PPV when he wrestles Cody Rhodes at the upcoming Full Gear pay-per-view event on Saturday, November 9th from Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena.
AEW World Champion Chris Jericho made a recent appearance on Grado’s new Wrestling Daft podcast where he made some interesting comments about the Wednesday Night Wars.
In this interview, Jericho brought up how he was always confident that AEW would win in the ratings.
“NXT is still the minor league Those guys are still unknown performers, it’s not a competition to us and I knew we’d win because we have more star power.”
Jericho stated that AEW ended their premiere episode of Dynamite with himself, Dustin Rhodes, and Jon Moxley because fans all know them. They also had WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross calling the action, who fans know as well.
Jericho continued by noting that WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon decided to put NXT up against AEW in order to keep competition away from RAW and Friday Night SmackDown.
He added that their competition is with WWE’s flagship shows as well as Universal Champion Seth Rollins, WWE Champion Brock Lesnar, and Roman Reigns.
“I think it was a stroke of genius by Vince McMahon to put NXT on against up because it took the focus off ‘the main show and AEW’ and put it on ‘the minor league and AEW.'”
Since October 2nd, WWE has been battling AEW with airing NXT in the same timeslot on the USA Network as a way to counterprogram All Elite Wrestling with their Dynamite series on TNT.
Jericho’s comments come at an interesting time as Rollins recently made similar comments about AEW and seeing them as the minor league promotion when talking about top AEW star Kenny Omega.
Jericho makes his next title defense on PPV when he wrestles Cody Rhodes at the upcoming Full Gear pay-per-view event.
MLW’s Court Bauer was the most recent guest on Chris Jericho’s Talk is Jericho. During the episode released today, Bauer speaks about his experience working on the WWE writing team following the Chris Benoit double-murder suicide in 2007. According to Bauer, the writing team was being asked to handle an issue that arguably should have been handled by people with more specialized training and expertise.
Jericho and Bauer were talking about not having run into each other in WWE while Bauer was on the writing team when the topic of WWE’s handling of the Benoit murder-suicide came up.
“I left in 07 basically was just starting a family with my wife, wanted to move on, I was in the midst of their handling of the Chris Benoit thing, which was very uncomfortable,” Bauer said during the show. “They were having the writing team try to be part of the damage control PR crisis team, I’m like ‘This is not the gig and this is not how you really should handle this.'”
Jericho then asked for more details.
“One day we go in there and Vince is looking at several monitors saying he’s going to be called to Congress and we’re like ‘this is pretty heavy stuff and horrible, sad, tragic stuff’ and Vince being this Master of the Universe always like’s to have control of something. So, we basically get hold up there and try to figure out what the messaging is going to be from the company about the situation and we’re batting around different ideas.”
Bauer then suggested that experts should have been hired to come in and handle the situation.
“I’m just like ‘you have the money, hire the right people to do this.’ The creative team isn’t… Michael Hayes pitching ideas on this is probably not the best path for any of us.”
Bauer’s comments about his time on the WWE writing team come in around the 6-minute mark of the show.
All Elite Wrestling World Champion Chris Jericho was a recent guest on Barstool Breakfast. During the interview, Jericho opened up about whether he ever received advice from WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair. He also divulged what he feels are the worst WWE storylines he was a part of.
Recalling his experiences with Flair, Jericho shared that ‘The Nature Boy’ never really gave him any advice or feedback on his matches. Even when asked directly for his thoughts, Jericho stated that Flair would just lie about seeing the match.
“Either he didn’t really say much, he’s a great guy, or he would just lie and say he saw the match and wouldn’t give you much feedback,” Jericho explained. “There were other guys who were worse than that.”
When it comes to his least favorite WWE storylines, Jericho admitted that there were plenty to choose from. He settled on his time co-sharing the Intercontinental Championship with the late Chyna as well as when he was managed by Stephanie McMahon:
“There have been some bad storylines,” he said. “I remember with Chyna, they had us be the co-Intercontinental Champions, where we shared the one title, which is ridiculous. That was a stupid story. There was another one when I was actually the World Champion, where it was Jericho vs. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon was my manager, I guess, and they were playing the thing like I was [expletive]-whipped by her but I wasn’t banging her, so it was kinda like just being a bitch.”
Chris Jericho is scheduled to defend his AEW World Championship against Cody at AEW Full Gear on November 9th.
All Elite Wrestling World Champion Chris Jericho has seen the negative response some fans have had regarding Marko Stunt. Stunt made his in-ring debut this week, replacing an injured Luchasaurus.
Taking to Twitter, Jericho addressed the criticisms lobbied at Stunt. He defended the AEW wrestler, comparing him to stalwart talents such as Rey Mysterio, Ultimo Dragon and Dean Malenko.
“Laughing at ppl complaining that @MarkoStunt is too small & a “disgrace to pro wrestling!” Funny thing is I thought the same thing about @reymysterio the first time I met him in 93. I also saw @TheUltimoDragon get REAMED out by his boss when he first brought Rey to Japan in 95.”
Laughing at ppl complaining that @MarkoStunt is too small & a “disgrace to pro wrestling!” Funny thing is I thought the same thing about @reymysterio the first time I met him in 93. I also saw @TheUltimoDragon get REAMED out by his boss when he first brought Rey to Japan in 95.
He followed up by explaining how Dean Malenko was once laughed out the WCW locker room for standing up for Mysterio in 1996. Both Malenko and Mysterio were then congratulated afterwards once they had an opportunity to show what Mysterio was capable of in the ring.
“Times have changed & Marko IS small,” Jericho explained. “But most of the workers on the roster are smaller in 2019 then the 90s.
Bottom line: Over is over & #Marko did a good job of getting over on Wed. Whether he ends up a World Champion like Rey did remains to be seen…but I’d rather watch him than a 6’8 musclehead who can’t move. I was once told I was “too small” to be a wrestler too…& I did ok! ?
For Jericho, the only thing that matters is whether you can connect with the crowd. He believes Stunt has accomplished this adding that, at one point in time, he was told he was too small to succeed in pro wrestling. “Over is over,” he stated. “I was once told I was “too small” to be a wrestler too…& I did ok!”
Chris Jericho made his first title defense as the AEW World Heavyweight Champion.
He did so when he beat Darby Allin in a street fight on Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, PA. This served as the main event of the show.
This contest was set up during last week’s show in Boston, MA at the Agganis Arena when Allin took on Jimmy Havoc in a #1 Contender’s Match. Allin was victorious and earned the right to challenge Le Champion this week.
It will be interesting to see where Allin goes from here as many fans are high on him. On the flip side, Jericho already has his next feud lined up.
Jericho makes his next title defense on PPV when he wrestles Cody Rhodes at the upcoming Full Gear pay-per-view event.
AEW presents Full Gear on Saturday, November 9th from Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena. The show will air on B/R Live, which is Bleacher Report’s streaming service, traditional PPV outlets, and FITE TV in international markets.
Don Callis and Paul Lazenby joined Chris Jericho on Talk is Jericho this week to discuss the life and times of “Big Titan” Rick Bognar. The man who portrayed the fake Razor Ramon character died suddenly last month at the age of 49.
“Rick was a constant in my career,” Jericho said on the show. “From the moment I showed up in Calgary in June of 1990 until he went to WWE in the summer of 96 I think it was, he was on pretty much every show that I was on, we did all the tours together, worked around the world together, hung out a lot in Calgary and on the road and then you kind of lose touch with guys.”
“If I had gotten married in 1995, Titan would have been one of the guys that I would have chosen to be in my wedding party sort of thing. Like he was that close to me at the time because we did spend a lot of time together in those early formative years.”
“He was always a humble dude,” Paul Lazenby added about Bognar. Lazenby also talked about working as a bouncer with Bognar while his career as Big Titan was taking off in Japan. “Titan and I were there every Friday night, usually duking it out shoulder to shoulder.”
The full conversation can be heard in the Tweet below:
The All Elite Wrestling World Champion Chris Jericho has announced that he’s bringing his alter ego The Painmaker to the company’s weekly show Dynamite this Wednesday.
Jericho is set to defend his title against challenger Darbie Allen on Dynamite this week. He warned Allen on Instagram that he’s going to bring back The Painmaker for him. “So beware […] hell is coming for you,” wrote Jericho.
When Jericho started working in NJPW, he debuted a new persona when he faced Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. In this character, Jericho paints his face and shows a more violent side.
Chris Jericho debuted the Painmaker persona first when he got in a feud with Tetsuya Naito after Wrestle Kingdom 12. The character’s attire involved wearing face paint, a hat, a scarf, a jacket, and leather pants. At Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall, in June 2018, Jericho defeated Naito to win the IWGP Championship. This side of Jericho was shown to being more violent and would often attack his opponents backstage or after they’re down. Seeing this side of Jericho in AEW will be interesting as the character was well received in NJPW. The addition of Painmaker would only enhance Jericho’s presence on the show.
Last week, Darby Allin defeated Jimmy Havoc in a #1 contender’s match. The show concluded with a wild brawl that saw Darby Allin roll to ringside on a skateboard and attack Le Champion.
This will also be Jericho’s first title defense as the AEW World Champion.
AEW Dynamite Preview (10/16)
Here is a look at the card for Wednesday night’s show from Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center.
“The Painmaker” Chris Jericho Darby Allin – Philadelphia Street Fight for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship
Jon Moxley and PAC vs. Kenny Omega and “Hangman” Adam Page
SoCal Uncensored vs. Best Friends (AEW Tag Title Tournament, First Round)
Lucha Bros vs. Jurassic Express (AEW Tag Title Tournament, First Round)
Wednesday’s edition of AEW Dynamite on TNT from Philadelphia, PA features a stacked card headlined by AEW World Champion Chris Jericho’s first title defense.
Last week, Darby Allin defeated Jimmy Havoc in a #1 contender’s match. The show concluded with a wild brawl that saw Darby Allin roll to ringside on a skateboard and attack Le Champion.
Jericho was enraged by Allin’s tactics, calling him a street thug. In the process, he announced the match will be a Philadelphia Street Fight. He also promised to show up as The Painmaker, the dark alter ego we first saw during his run in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
“You want to treat me like a street thug?,” Jericho asked. “I’m going to treat you like the little b***h that you are Darby Allin because next week for the AEW Championship Darby Allin vs Chris Jericho in a Philadelphia Street Fight.”
Since then, Darby Allin has issued a response of his own. As seen below, the 26-year-old grappler cuts a brooding promo on his opponent. Allin explains his personal mission in the pro wrestling business, which is to leave as the same man he was when he entered. He also tells Chris Jericho needs to be humbled and it will be a sweet moment when he’s humbled by a man whom he looks down upon.
AEW Dynamite Preview (10/16)
Here is an updated look at the card for Wednesday night’s show from Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center.
“The Painmaker” Chris Jericho Darby Allin – Philadelphia Street Fight for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship
Jon Moxley and PAC vs. Kenny Omega and “Hangman” Adam Page
SoCal Uncensored vs. Best Friends (AEW Tag Title Tournament, First Round)
Lucha Bros vs. Jurassic Express (AEW Tag Title Tournament, First Round)
AEW Women’s Champion Riho vs. Britt Baker
NEW MATCH ADDED: This Wednesday in #AEWPhiladelphia we will see Kenny Omega & Hangman Adam Page vs PAC & Jon Moxley on #AEWDynamite
The All Elite Wrestling’s World Champion Chris Jericho announced his allegiance with the company in early 2019 and has been working there since. Before AEW though, Jericho worked in New Japan Pro Wrestling from 2017 to 2019 after leaving WWE.
Jericho had a memorable run in the Japanese wrestling promotion. His feud with Kenny Omega was the highlight of Jericho’s tenure in the East. Jericho also became the IWGP Intercontinental Champion for a total of 209 days.
Now that Jericho’s with AEW, will we ever see him back in NJPW again? Jericho answered this question while appearing on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show.
Even though many top names from NJPW have been exiting the company to join AEW, Jericho stated that he still has the freedom to work with the company as long as the dates don’t interfere with his AEW appearances.
“I can do New Japan shows, if it doesn’t conflict with AEW. I did one earlier this year, where I had an IWGP Championship match against Kazuchika Okada. I might do some more with them. But it’s (his AEW deal) pretty much exclusive,” Jericho stated.
Jericho’s coworkers Kenny Omega has also stated in the past that he could work with NJPW in the future, and Jon Moxley also appeared several times for the promotion from May to August this year.
Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea is a series of cruise ship experiences held by Chris Jericho, which features various wrestling events, concerts, and stand-up comedy acts.
Rock’ N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea, held in late October 2018, hosted Ring of Honor’s Sea of Honor Tournament, which saw sixteen different matches taking place. Bullet Club, The Young Bucks, Flip Gordon, Adam Page, Dalton Castle were some of the names that took part in the event.
Jericho will be holding a second cruise named Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager at Sea Part Deux: The Second Wave. It will occur from January 20 to January 24, 2020. It will be partnering with AEW and feature wrestlers like The Young Bucks, Britt Baker, and Adam Page.
The face of AEW recently talked about his cruise in an interview where he was asked if he would be able to continue hosting the cruise while working weekly at AEW. Not only was he positive that he could do it, but he also touched on the possibility of holding an AEW Dynamite sea edition on the cruise.
Speaking to Fansided, Jericho said, “Yeah, January 20th is sold out already, so we’re gonna talk soon about Jericho Cruise No. 3. So, it’s exciting! You remember WCW had Road Wild and Bash at the Beach, where you’re taking wrestling out of the arena. If you saw the event we did last year on a cruise ship, it looked so beautiful. The middle of the night in the middle of the ocean, the stars shining down, the lights. I’d like that to be an annual thing, and as I’m with AEW, there’s no reason to take a day out of a wrestling company. So, if we can make it the annual rock and wrestling rager at sea edition of [AEW] Dynamite, that’s great! Just adds another element to our very cool show.”
It will be interesting to see a sea edition of AEW Dynamite come to fruition. It doesn’t seem very far-fetched, as some AEW wrestlers are already going to appear on the cruise next year.
Chris Jericho will defend his AEW World Championship next week against Darby Allin on AEW Dynamite. This week on Dynamite, Allin rode his skateboard down the ramp during the closing segment in order to attack Jericho. In response, Jericho cut the following promo announcing his match against Allin next week will now be a “Philadelphia Street Fight”:
“You all saw what happened tonight. In 29 years in the wrestling business, I’ve seen and done it all,” Jericho began the video. “But what I’ve never seen is a self-righteous son of a bitch skateboard down a ram-way and attack me.”
Allin qualified for a title match next week by defeating Jimmy Havoc this week on Dynamite.
“It’s the biggest match of his career but he had to take it too far, he had to come and attack me from behind like some kind of a dog, like some kind of a street thug.”
“You want to treat me like some kind of street thug? Sounds good to me,” Jericho continued. “Because next week we’re in Philadelphia, that’s the place where my father Ted Irvine used to beat the crap out of the Philadelphia Flyers each and every night when he played with the New York Rangers. So, you want to come to Philly? You want to treat me like a street thug? I’m going to treat you like the little b***h that you are Darby Allin because next week for the AEW Championship Darby Allin vs Chris Jericho in a Philadelphia Street Fight.”
Jericho would then end the video by saying he would come as “the Painmaker” for the match.
Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley were part of the All Elite Wrestling panel at the New York Comic-Con last weekend. At the panel, various topics were discussed, and among them, the topic of WWE came up.
Jericho and Moxley talked about why they left the company and decided to join AEW. Moxley revealed that all of it was just because of crazy timing.
In a video published by Nerd News Today, Moxley detailed his journey to the new alternative wrestling promotion at the NYCC panel. He revealed that the first person that knew about his plan to exit WWE was Chris Jericho.
“I had been planning on leaving where I was before for a few months, and I actually had been talking to – I think the first guy besides my wife that even knew because I didn’t tell anybody — the only other guy that knew was Chris [Jericho],” revealed Moxley.
Which proved to be great timing for Moxley as Jericho got him in touch with Cody Rhodes who offered Moxley to join their promotion.
“It was on the phone. This was before any of this other stuff started happening and I said, ‘Dude, I’m out of here. I’m done.’ And he’s like, ‘Dude, you need to come work with us.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ Not five minutes later probably, I get a call from Cody Rhodes, and he started explaining to me all this top-secret stuff they had. And I’m like, ‘Whoa.’ And here we are.”
As for Jericho, he revealed that the reason he left was because of the scripts. Jericho was tired of being handed a script and being told what to do.
“But now, as we mentioned with no scripts and all that, it gives us the chance to be the artists that we are and use the instincts that we’ve honed after doing this for years, and years, and years, and years to know how to put on a show, to know how to put on a match,” Jericho explained.
Jericho also stated that giving the wrestlers control over their character is the best practice as it would look more natural than a script written by someone else.
“Most importantly, how do you get your character across? There’s nobody in the world that knows how to play Chris Jericho better than I do, so don’t give me a f***ing script and say, ‘This is what Jericho’s going to say.”
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) World Champion Chris Jericho made a recent appearance on KTLA 5 Morning News show in Los Angeles. During his interview, Jericho spoke about what made AEW special compared to WWE. When asked about whether there are similarities or differences between the two promotions, Jericho explained they are “completely different.”
“It’s [AEW] a brand new company, backed by the owners of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and we just debuted on Wednesday, last Wednesday, on the TNT Network, to what was the highest-debuted show in 5 years for the network. A huge hit. It’s something different. People are excited because for the first time in 20 years there’s an alternative to the WWE, and it’s new, and it’s exciting, and it’s fresh, it’s fun.”
He added how he acts as a bridge for wrestling fans who may not be familiar with AEW but are fans of Chris Jericho:
“So, when they come and watch me on the show, then they see all these other great performers that they’ve never watched. So, for me it’s a chance to do something, build something up from scratch, which has never happened in our lifetime for the wrestling business,” Jericho said. “It’s a really cool time for the business. We have created a whole buzz for wrestling now, to where it’s becoming cool again, and more specifically, AEW is cool.”