Chris Jericho says he doesn’t have to win a match in AEW ever again
While speaking to TMZ’s Inside The Ring podcast, Chris Jericho commented on working with the younger talent in AEW. Here is what Jericho had to say…
“My goal was always to build the company and build and build names from day one, like I just told you, for the Inner Circle and all the stuff that we did.
And, you know, sometimes—most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but it’s just the way it goes sometimes. But if you look at MJF, we literally had an angle for 366 days, a year and a day. Literally.
I would say that was the beginning of MJF’s true ascension to being what he is now, you know? I mean, it really was.
He’d worked with Cody for a bit, which was good, and then we did our thing. So, you know, if you look at any of the guys who are now our basic main event superstars, I mean, when I worked with Will Ospreay at Wembley, he wasn’t even signed to AEW yet. We were hoping to get him to sign. Now he’s a champion.
There you go. Same with Bandido. When I had the first match with Bandido, that was a really great match. He gets signed to AEW. Now he’s a champion, you know, and this is the idea.
I don’t have to win ever again. Sometimes I do because if not, then you’re just losing all the time, which isn’t great for stories. But, you know, it doesn’t matter if I win or lose. It’s about putting on the best performance and putting on the best match and helping guys or girls find something maybe that they didn’t quite know that was there just yet.
And suddenly, you help. That’s what people did for me.”