Does AEW have what it takes to one day surpass WWE? Let us know in the comments below!

@matthewmadden8406

10 ай бұрын

No lol no company ever will. WWE is in a league of their own

@sameoldsameold9239

10 ай бұрын

Do they need to even, to be successful? No actually. Loaded question just to stir the pot of online discourse.

@LiamAddison08

10 ай бұрын

As a moneymaking commercial machine, not a chance, as a wrestling company, yes absolutely

@HamzaKhan-te2sj

10 ай бұрын

@@LiamAddison08 That doesn't even make sense.

@savobabicic7491

10 ай бұрын

​@@sameoldsameold9239 yeah it hurts doesn't it knowing that aew will never surpass wwe

If you don’t believe Jericho is the greatest, most influential thing to ever happen to wrestling, just ask him.

@isaiahm6005

10 ай бұрын

Great comment

@aS-df8zj

10 ай бұрын

Nice one

@dishangalison

10 ай бұрын

😂 brilliant

@nikhilkrishnan9

10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@94luftwaffe

10 ай бұрын

He is in his own right😁😎

"i believe Chris Jericho is the best thing that ever happened to pro wrestling" Chris Jericho

Such a Humble interview from chris. Hes always so humble for a guy who apparently invented pro wrestling

@lau3503

6 ай бұрын

Humble 😂😂😂😂

Chris Jericho is basically a wrestling god. He said so.

@MoongodTDWP

9 ай бұрын

JBL is the first

The Sun rising tomorrow morning will be due to Chris Jericho. 😂

I just graduated and it was all thanks to Chris Jericho

@DrCash7

8 ай бұрын

69th like

Just got back from the hospital.. I am in complete remission from cancer.. THANKS Y2J x

@user-mu2mp8ll6c

10 ай бұрын

Praise y2j

What would we do if it weren’t for Chris Jericho ! I mean the guy planted every single tree in world! We should all be thankful

Such a humble man.

@ajsndknssidkisj840

7 ай бұрын

😹😹💀

Thank you Chris Jericho without you i dont think wrestling would of exsisted

@813South

10 ай бұрын

Are you serious. I love Jericho but wrestling has been great without him and it will be fine when he retires

@gmac673

10 ай бұрын

@@813South I guess the sarcasm went right over your head.

@813South

10 ай бұрын

@@gmac673 With these wrestling fans you never know. Remember there are some that think Orange Cassidy is mainevent talent and they think he is better than Omega

@gmac673

10 ай бұрын

@@813South read their comment again. It clearly obvious that it’s made with tongue firmly in cheek.

@johs7961

10 ай бұрын

@@813South Say whatever you want about Cassidy but he has fucking great matches and is an absolute workhorse.

Jericho: ***clears throat*** Me.

Gotta love Jericho....after all these years he's always managed to stay so humble!

@antonycuff4512

10 ай бұрын

So humble ! He only considers himself a legendary rockstar !

@emailjustinbyrd

10 ай бұрын

​@NHL94Rebel then why are you even here? Virgin boy.

@Michael-cz6ob

10 ай бұрын

He used to be a wrestling star dude. We all loved him. Now he's lowered him to embarassing the wrestling business performing in this outlaw company in ridiculous fire ball throwing shark cage matches..death matches..lights out matches.. barbed wire everywhere sparkler on a table matches. Good grief it's such weak indy shi*. He's literally made me throw away all my Chris Jericho books I cherished for so many years on my shelf

@michaelklingenberg7872

10 ай бұрын

@@Michael-cz6ob never read one of his books but I'm very curious how they were.

@tyleryoung9384

10 ай бұрын

@@Michael-cz6ob Jericho is and always will be a legend I honestly give him mad props for still being able to wrestle on a high level not a lot of greats can still hang right now and Jericho can

If only the rest of the world saw Jericho as Jericho sees Jericho 😂😂😂😂

@stewartfan717

10 ай бұрын

I love him but not as much as he loves himself

@stephendwane8166

10 ай бұрын

@@stewartfan717 loved him a few years ago, his stuff in wwe was good, Japan good, start of aew.. good, post Cody feud… awful, downhill ever since

@ziahamm1603

10 ай бұрын

The man is a legend. No one can take that away from him. But my god he has just become insufferable since he went over to AEW.

@kevinryan7669

10 ай бұрын

Aew Jericho is painful

@jonnyBoy1919..

10 ай бұрын

He needs time away and when he comes back he should work less. He’d mean much more to AEW that way.

People rip into Chris Jericho but I think they all forget how much experience he has, how much of a name he is in Wrestling. AEW would not have taken off without someone like him coming onboard. As good as Omega, the Bucks etc are, they are not Jericho.

@steveholland1163

10 ай бұрын

They haveing taken off they are very stagnet at the moment they a have lost viewers by the hundreds of thousand s

@NoxWyatt

10 ай бұрын

@@steveholland1163If you’re gonna try and make a statement, at least spell properly.

@steveholland1163

10 ай бұрын

I am a stroke victim who fingers don't work properly sorry the point is still thwreb

@jaimea.5207

7 ай бұрын

@@steveholland1163I’m sorry to hear about your situation and I’m glad you’re still alive, brother… but, I hope All In changed your mind somewhat because viewership on live tv isn’t a big thing anymore as it used to be in the mid 00s and earlier. Hell, a few weeks ago executives at WBD said that through all platforms available, dynamite got over 2 million viewers live. It’s time wrestling fans move on from live cable ratings when we have soooooo many ways to watch tv without paying outrageous monthly bills for tv. That viewership talk should have stopped as soon as the first ever wrestling fan mentioned wwe went from weekly 9 million on Monday nights in the early 00s to barely scratching 2 mill now. It could be said wwe has also failed to beat the wwe they used to be. That says a lot about their quality of content now more than aew still pumping out spectacles and making more money from tv contracts and finally moving on to doing more ppvs (breaking news: they will be starting to run 12 ppvs a year now very soon). That says A LOT about the state of the company. Almost 5 years in and they’re still making moves that aren’t costing them major losses. That’s more that could be said for a company like TNA that started falling off badly around year 3-4. They scratched A SURFACE… aew BROKE that ceiling for an American promotion and still hasn’t slowed down when it comes to building the business internally.

@WingsofHistory

7 ай бұрын

@@steveholland1163auto correct exists

“Anything I do is gunna be good” bro the painmaker exists 😂😂

@Krul6

6 ай бұрын

Also, his entire discography

I remember watching jericho in his WCW days monday night jericho, he's always been a sensational talent in the ring and on the mic, i'd like to see him an punk go at it in AEW.

Chris Jericho invented fans singing along to entrance theme songs. Don't believe me? Just ask him.

@gavobxnds4790

10 ай бұрын

Sandman?

@retrokoh1507

10 ай бұрын

​@@gavobxnds4790Jericho invented him too😅

@gavobxnds4790

10 ай бұрын

@@retrokoh1507 I get it😭

What I love about these interviews of guys that worked at the company for a long time, is that Vince just isn't what so many fans believe he is. He was totally cool and nice to Jericho out the door. Even had him on Broken Skull Sessions and he openly discussed AEW there. I think anyone that comes in and does good work for Vince, he personally cares about as a friend or even family, even if he's the one feeling like he has to let them go. Which is why he has let people go, and then brings them back later. He always leaves the door open.

These are always legendary

“They say Chris Jericho is bigger than Jesus!,….I’m they” - Chris Jericho

Jericho built the hospital he was born in ! Man’s a god 👀

@master-of-mind5881

10 ай бұрын

Stop it. 😂😂😂😂

@intelligentfool09

10 ай бұрын

While still in the womb!

@antmaster360

7 ай бұрын

WITH HIS BARE HANDS

Best decision by jericho…

Where can I watch the full version of this interview?

WCW Jericho would hate todays Jericho.

Jericho the LEGENNNNDDDDD

Jericho does make anything he's involved in better.

Jericho = GOAT

So modest

Where can we see these full interviews?

I want him to talk about his crazy hotel adventures 😂😂😂

I like how you play clips at the end but don't think them. Genius marketing move

how can I watch the full interview?

he is right about all the things he talks about in this video

Everyone gives him crap for being arrogant but think about it everything he tries he is successful in it, wrestling, singing,not so much acting but the masked singer and everytime there is a pop culture show they get him to talk about it bc he is so talented at running his mouth.

That's really nice of Jericho to take credit for everything Cody did

Moxley started bleeding when Chris mentioned his name

Is there somewhere to watch the entire live show interview?

@TheMegamyGamer

10 ай бұрын

no unfortunately, inside the ropes usually only kept a few clip here in there but most of the interview are for the people who have the chance to see it IRL.

Jericho is awesome he oozes confidence and bravado his been successful at everything he has attempted held multiple titles for different wrestling companies check been in competitive matches with the very best in wrestling check cut promo's with the very best check successful podcast check lead singer of a popular rock band check made some popular songs with the band check now he's trying to help a Young wrestling company grow so it can someday compete with the WWE check people give him crap for being arrogant but the dude has earned the right to be a little cocky he's slowly becoming a genuine Goat entertainer/wrestler.

I might not be a genius like Chris Jericho, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn last night.

Chris Jericho is the greatest. Just ask him yourself. He will tell you himself.

someone wanna tell me how to watch the whole thing?

When was this interview filmed? Jericho mentioned Punk without shitting on him...

GOD IS JERICHO

I don't think the real question should be can AEW surpass WWE. WWE is Disney, they're a full fledged global media company. All AEW needs to do is focus on the US, Canada and Western Europe... This is the part some people who don't like the WWE product anymore don't understand. When WWE is breaking ground on a new market, they're not concerned whether or not we like the segment with Jinder Mahal, and we all know damn well the Punjabi Prison Match VS Orton will be garbage with a sprinkle of Khali run-in... But the Indian market doesn't know that... That's billions of people exposed to WWE watching THEIR guy win the title... AEW can take 30% of the US/Canada market, which is more than enough to be a money making, profitable business, be where WWE was about 25 years ago size-wise and still make a LOT of wrestlers a LOT of money... They're playing on two different levels which is EXACTLY why Tony Khan keeps saying "We're not competing with WWE." Because they're not on the same economy of scale as WWE.

@ArcaneAzmadi

10 ай бұрын

...not a great example. While Great Khali is a national hero in India, Jinder didn't even manage to get over there because they know damn well he's a Canadian. His World Championship run was a deliberate attempt by WWE to expand into India, and it _flopped._ They even had to cut down the number of shows they did on their tour there because it simply wasn't selling. Regardless, it's not like AEW could ever surpass WWE, that's like asking whether any restaurant chain could ever surpass McDonalds. The way capitalism works, once a company establishes themselves as a clear #1 they will remain #1 _forever_ no matter what, because the majority will continue to flock to whatever the majority are already flocking to, like a snake eating its own Big Mac. Although I think if there's one market where AEW could _easily_ overtake WWE if they continue to focus on it, it's the UK.

@FloridaManRacer

9 ай бұрын

@@ArcaneAzmadi I agree with most of what you say, but being #1 isn't forever. Something eventually changes that shakes things up. SEARS Roebuck was the #1 retail store for almost 90 yrs, then Wal Mart came along and they fell way out of 1st place, then Amazon came along and put them clean out of business. Its all about how long it takes to innovate beyond the competition...

i love how all the comments are about how much jericho loves himself but i think we all love him equally as he does and eat up everything he says, and i don't watch aew at all.

Chris Jericho likes himself a lot of Chris Jericho.

Vince really loves y2j

Watching Jericho talk I imagine is like watching your family being assassinated in-front of your very eyes

His AEW work is almost as good as Fozzy.

@master-of-mind5881

10 ай бұрын

Ouch 😂😂

@MasteroftheDDT

10 ай бұрын

AEW is almost as good as AWA in 1990 too

@thehmc

10 ай бұрын

@@MasteroftheDDT That's not fair. At least AWA had wrestlers.

I grantee you AEW and WWE WORK TO TOGETHER

2:40 'Recruiter' Ohh he said that anyway

As long as Vince has his fingers on wwe operation.. the chance if y2j coming back is a possibility

There are elements here of the Chris Jericho that everyone loved, but there's a lot of Hulk Hogan in this interview - you know, the guy Chris Jericho criticized for keeping young guys in WCW like himself down. A lot of his statements here sound like Hulk trying to justify his contract and booking in WCW.

@jerodgraham6623

10 ай бұрын

The difference being that Hulk honestly COULD justify it, just by being Hulk Hogan. Production was often greater than what you had to tolerate (TNA stint notwithstanding). Jericho has never been that dude, and never will be. His ego has been out of control these last few years. Combine that with him being a snake that always latches on to the latest “hot” act and siphons all their heat, and I’ve absolutely come to dislike him lately.

@emailjustinbyrd

10 ай бұрын

Jericho has put over pretty much every young wrestler he's worked with. Has he won some matches? Of course. But his name wouldn't have value if all he did was lose. Show me who Hogan put over in WCW besides Goldberg who was already over? Jericho has put over Starks, Action A., MJF, and countless others while elevating people like Sammy and the inner circle (now JAS) along the way. Your argument is based AF and shows you don't watch the product. Honestly you wasn't even worth making this comment for.

@gmac673

10 ай бұрын

@@emailjustinbyrd no one has gotten more over from working with Jericho in AEW. A few of them were over with that fan base before feuding with Jericho anyway and luckily haven’t been affected, but others like Eddie Kingston have suffered from a program with him. No one in any of his factions benefit from the affiliation, Sammy Guevara should try to break away because it has probably stalled (definitely slowed)any progress he could have been making these past couple of years.

@JeremiahEcks777

10 ай бұрын

​@@emailjustinbyrd I can't agree more with what you've said.

@JeremiahEcks777

10 ай бұрын

​@@gmac673 Err, but it's just not true. Jericho having the main title solidified it as legit and then him having it put Moxley right in the centrepiece of the main event. Although Mox was a draw, the feud with Jericho made it legitimate. His feud with MJF also moved the guy on from his endless dreary Cody feud and then the post Cody confusion he was in. The two Stadium Stampede matches were excellent and the first in particular is one of my favourite matches ever. He was involved with them in a big way. He's kept Jake Hager on telly when it would have been easy to lose him a la Miro or Lance Archer. His labours of Jericho feud was pretty fun. He's stalled a bit since forming the JAS because most of the JAS are pretty terrible and Sammy has far outgrown that angle now, but first half of AEW Jericho was on fire and making stars and angles left right and centre. If anything the JAS is the problem at the moment because they're still trying to book the JAS like the Inner Circle but whereas the IC were cool heels, and then tweeners, the JAS are just dull and full of undeveloped characters. I can't even tell you who's in them to be honest. Jericho is in need of freshening up but people saying he never puts people over or spitting on him are being disingenuous. He doesn't have to be your cup of tea, that's cool, but the online mob mentality against him that's growing is just full of untruths and half remembered nonsense.

I almost yelled the word "RECRUITING!" out loud to a KZread video. I need to touch grass...

AEW tnowh if y2j went to that permotionl and I think it was good idea 💡 and he's work is next level 👌

Damn Chris Jericho and Chris McClain (Total Drama) have a LOT in common.

Bigger than he was as Dean Ambrose? What fantasy world are they living in? They work 3 times a month. At best

Jericho sounds like Hogan talking about TNA

@philedmond

10 ай бұрын

Tony Khan actually has money and sources at least unlike Dixie and Hulk for TNA haha

@thehmc

10 ай бұрын

And Hogan was right.

@thehmc

10 ай бұрын

@@philedmond Yeah, but he's a wrestling nerd, so his booking and writing sucks.

Chris is the absolute complete goat entertainer wrestler the man

bring him back as champ

Chris Jericho, Le Champíon, the best in the world at what he does

4 minutes in and "SHOCKING" hasn't happened yet

Im surprised during the interview that CJ didn't play his boombox too loud and get kicked out of the building

Luckily he is super modest and not full of himself at all

The beginning of AEW was so exciting… but man it’s so uninteresting now

@Nicolewhite743

10 ай бұрын

i agree , the first 1 year was very exciting . But now its like blahhh . Nothing exciting about it now because no more wwe guys are jumping over

@Csnich96

10 ай бұрын

The last dynamite was great! Also CM Punks return and collision starting is going to be a new chapter for the company

Without Chris Jericho Hulk Hogan never would have slammed Andre at Wrestlemania 3!!!

5:15 the originals made AEW safe for CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Adam Cole. CM Punk: having to endure the Page promo, the locker room broke out from the Elite and mega (the lawyer of AEW) which ended in a brawl, Jericho saying Punk is a cancer, the Elite and Jericho breaking out fake news to Meltzer. Bryan Danielson: Suffering a huge concussion in Anarchy at the Arena (the match stipulation Jericho created and match in which he was part for his concussion) Adam Cole: suffering a huge concussion at Forbidden door. Yeahhhh pretty safe to say Jericho only cares on "cementing his legacy" no matter how much damage he does to AEW actually.

The comments passed the vibe check 😂

@TomBradyisGOAT.

4 ай бұрын

Bot comments

Lenny Lane is still around?

Chris Jericho did so much for AEW, but I don’t think AEW elevated him at all. WWE made Y2J and reached the top with them

Why is it censored?

I get to a degree that there was some legacy risk for established names taking an initial dive on an unproven company like AEW but the risk a lot of them like to sell it as being gets hyped more than it really was. Guys like Jericho or JR, and I don’t fault them whatsoever and would do the same exact thing as them if I had the leverage like they did, locked down huge financial guarantees over multiple years whether the venture was a success or failure and had zero financial risk by taking the gamble knowing that they were financially set whatever the outcome was. And judging by what was said at the time they were paid the most they ever had been to make their move. And if it had flopped how hard would it have been to just say why they took the gamble, point out the difficulty of that succeeding and mentioning that they were being paid the most they ever had been to take the risk so they did? Their legacies were long established and I highly doubt they’d have had any major issues going back considering they gave Vince a chance to match the deals and the deals were so good Vince told them to take the deals. Their biggest risk was realistically bruising their egos with a giant amount of money for doing so and Vince laughing about them bleeding the idiot kid who thought he’d actually have a chance to compete with him. And he points out all the time that what he had available with the WWE wasn’t appealing anyways so what was he truly risking? Respect for taking a gamble but doesn’t seem like it would’ve been a hard decision to make and props to them because they earned what they were offered.

Respect for going against Gage

@user-mu2mp8ll6c

10 ай бұрын

Why? He's trash

G.O.A.T.

"Made return safe for guys like Punk" IMFAO 😂😂😂

@thehmc

10 ай бұрын

And he's right.

We need to be saying "thank you chris"

I don’t know if I agree with the comment that John Moxley is bigger than Dean Ambrose and a viewers standpoint. At this current state, AEW can’t even sell 2000 tickets to their weekly show.

@loopyartist

7 ай бұрын

Me too

Damn. Jericho is like this company is only alive beavuse of me lol

@intelligentfool09

10 ай бұрын

Hell we all are alive because of him.

I love the fact that even if it’s 💯% true that Jericho is a giant egotistical ham in real life it just feeds into his on screen persona thus making the perfect Heel for the trudish smarky internet fans

Is this the same tour where he trashed an English hotel?

I love how the dude still keeps some of his gimmick in his interviews. Mjf goes full kayfabe but Chris thinking (probably believes it now lmaooo) he’s the best thing for wrestling but trying to share real insight that also sheds light on the business is funny.

Chris Jericho is the Stephanie McMahon of men's wrestling.

@TheMegamyGamer

10 ай бұрын

he as invented MEN!

Aew isn't bigger in the uk 😂 its on itv at 9pm obviously its going to get more views than wwe which is on bt sport at 1am

This guy can literally never tell a story without taking credit for the topic

Moxley doesn't seem any better to be honest

Is TNA still around ? Or did AEW take over. Because if TNA is still around and if AEW is interested once in awhile they could kind of put the wrestlers against each other once a year something like that maybe I don't know

Jericho couldn’t think of the word recruit. Lol

@intelligentfool09

10 ай бұрын

It’s because he was solving complex algorithms in his head during this interview!

This man is clearly high of the smell of his own farts. It's a shame, he's been in the biz for so long that he knows a lot of cool deets but you can never know how truthful and real what he says is.

chris jericho was a huge catalyst for the success of aew he may not be humble but why should he be? if any of you do anything worthwhile like a 0.35 cent raise at 7 eleven you probably never shut up about it

And now he's just like the Hulk Hogan of AEW

@JeremiahEcks777

10 ай бұрын

No, he isn't. This is ridiculous unfounded nonsense and I'm more than fed up of it. Does Jericho always have the main title? Nope. Does Jericho always win his feuds? Nope. Does he habitually lie? Not that other wrestlers say. Does he get hired only his friends? Nope. Does he wrestle the same match and same feud to preserve his legacy? Nope. Jericho isn't anything like Hogan. Jericho DOES believe his own hype but, frankly, he should because he's great. And all the same marks moaning about him how all agreed and moaned that he was held down in WWE by HHH or whoever... now they've turned on him because he dared say anything about the all saving all saintly CM Punk, and stood into locker room leader mode. And got himself over. How dare he be successful. He's only ever any good if he's not pushed and then the moaners can moan about that instead. But frankly, I'm bored with this moaning.

@NickRaymond871

10 ай бұрын

@@JeremiahEcks777 these paragraphs defending Jericovid 😂

@TheMegamyGamer

10 ай бұрын

@@NickRaymond871and yet he pull out a lot of good point there.

@thehmc

10 ай бұрын

So he's the guy people actually pay to see and who draws the money while no one else cares about the flippy dippy indie darlings?

@roggie839

10 ай бұрын

No he actually puts talent over

Raw is shown on BT Sport (soon to become TnT Sport which is funny), the second, if not biggest Sports channel provider in the UK. AEW is on ITV 4. The fourth channel of the third best free tv channel in the UK. How he thinks they are doing better i don't know 🤦‍♂

Vince also told Bret, Hall and Nash to "take it" when WCW offered. You're not special.

Is this before or after he was drunk and flexing like a ego maniac before getting arrested in a hotel? 😂

unfortunately Moxley hasn’t surpassed Ambrose as far as mainstream appeal goes

Recruiter

Showtime or Amazon would have been way better than TNT. As of now I have no way to watch AEW because I refuse to pay for cable and they have no streaming service

The delusion in this man is off the charts

The comment section created a meme and its hilarious

Driving force to be reckoned with 😂