Chris Jericho Elaborates On His Reasons For Signing With ALL ELITE WRESTLING Over WWE
Chris Jericho has already revealed that he did speak to Vince McMahon before agreeing to sign with All Elite Wrestling, but on the latest edition of his podcast, Y2J goes into a little more detail...
All Elite Wrestling pulled off a pretty major coup when they managed to sign a bonafide legend in Chris Jericho, but it turns out the multi-time champion did consider returning to WWE.
Y2J has already shared some details of the conversation with Vince McMahon that occurred just before he made an appearance at the AEW rally, but on the latest episode of his podcast, Jericho elaborates on his reasons for choosing the budding wrestling promotion over his old stomping grounds, and reveals that he did give WWE an opportunity to get him back in the fold.
"It’s a little bit hard because I worked for WWE for 19 years. I love the WWE. But I put myself into Chris Jericho’s shoes back in 1998 back when I was contemplating leaving WCW and thinking, ‘how much further can I go in WCW under these rules, under these conditions?’ And I realized I probably can’t go much further. So I put myself in those shoes. Could I walk away from WWE and go to All Elite Wrestling? A brand new company that doesn’t even own a wrestling ring at this point, as far as I know? And after some introspection, the answer was ‘yes, I can do this’."
I still kind of gave WWE the benefit of, hey listen guys, the train is leaving the station, are we gonna work together or not? And to their credit, we talked and all the way up to a few days before the rally, but there was never really an offer given." "The cart is on my back and I have to do great work, and I have to go the extra mile to help make this work. In WWE, it doesn’t matter what I do. It’s still gonna be WWE. In AEW, it does matter what I do, and I have to be my best, and I have to really use my 30 years, or my 29 years of experience to help build this company. And that was exciting to me."
What do you guys make of Jericho's comments? Are you looking forward to seeing how his career in AEW goes?