Chris Jericho on Tony Khan being the boss: “If you don’t like it, you go make $8 billion and start your own wrestling company”
While speaking to TMZ’s Inside The Ring podcast, Chris Jericho commented on working for AEW President Tony Khan. Here is what Jericho had to say about answering to Khan as a boss…
“You work together to create the best possible match you can. I remember I was working with Samoa Joe once in AEW, and Tony wanted something that neither one of us felt. We basically said, ‘Maybe we should think about it,’ or whatever. And Tony, you could tell, he just was very—not disappointed, but he very much wanted us to do this.
The moment he left the room, Joe and I looked at each other like, ‘All right, how are we going to make it work?’ We had a conversation. We had to reshuffle the deck and move this there, move this there, get rid of this, and add this. Then we went back and told Tony, and he’s like, ‘Oh, that’s so great. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.’
He’s happy, and we’re going to make it great. It’s completely different from what we originally wanted to do, but he’s the f*cking boss. He’s the one who tells us what he wants. And if you don’t like it, you go make $8 billion and start your own wrestling company.
And that’s what a pro does. That’s what you do. And it’s not always the way you want it. But I’m not the boss.”