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The motivation behind Chris Jericho’s promo from the October 30th 2024 edition of AEW Dynamite

Aaron Rift

As seen during the October 30th 2024 edition of AEW Dynamite, ROH world champion Chris Jericho brought up how his ladder match with Mark Briscoe received a four-star rating from Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com. Jericho stated that “if you underestimate Chris Jericho, you are overestimating your knowledge and understanding of how TV and pro wrestling really works.”

In his newsletter, Meltzer noted that the promo was an “FU” to Jericho’s critics. It’s believed that Jericho became ROH champion because negotiations are “close” for an ROH television deal.

Meltzer wrote the following about Jericho’s promo…

“It was very much meant as a knock at those who predicted doom for AEW and continued to claim that they would always lose money and that the new TV deal would be no better than the last one. My gut when Jericho won the title last week, which I said in a few places, was that with ROH in television negotiations, it’s very clear that the idea that Jericho would be the world champion to whomever the negotiations are with would be more beneficial at the time of talks than almost anyone on the roster.”