Former Impact World champion Austin Aries is back in the wrestling spotlight ever since his return to Major League Wrestling was revealed.
Now 41-years-old, the wrestling veteran has been in most of the major promotions such as Ring of Honor, Impact Wrestling, and WWE. However, with All Elite Wrestling on the horizon, could we see Austin Aries in AEW sometime soon? Aries talks about AEW and admits that he wants to work with both Chris Jericho and Cody, both of which are currently AEW stars.
Here’s what the former Impact World champion had to say about wanting to work with the two talents on The Fight Box podcast (transcripts courtesy of
Fightful):
Austin Aries on having immense respect for Chris Jericho and wanting to work with the wrestling veteran:
“Well, as far as the working with part, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again because it’s still a viable possibility but, whether it’s across the ring as an opponent or in the corner as a partner, Chris Jericho is someone I have an immense amount of respect for-for what’s he’s done in his career. One of the guys that, as I was breaking in, was one of those guys that was ushering in the style that appealed to someone like me that I wanted to follow and say, ‘Now that’s a guy I wanna be like if I’m going to be in this business’ so the fact he’s still doing it at a high level and the fact… I think what I respect most about Chris is, man, he calls his own shots and he’s done it his own way and I respect that out of him so, that opportunity would be great because there’s not a lot of guys left that when I broke in, were kind of guys that I looked up to that are still active.”
Austin Aries on also wanting to work with Cody due to what he’s done recently:
“Eddie Guerrero was always one of those guys that was always on my list and unfortunately [I didn’t] have the chance, but fortunately Chris is still out there so that’s a guy that’s always on top, and Cody. I’ll throw Cody’s name out there too. For a lot of the same reasons as far as respecting what he’s done. Kind of going in his own direction and carving it out.”