Vince McMahon Wanted Chris Jericho To Get Out Of His AEW Contract

Chris Jericho is truly a veteran in the pro wrestling industry. Jericho has competed in various promotions all over the world in his career which has spanned more than 30 years.

Jericho also debuted for AEW in 2019, and he was the first ever AEW World Champion, as he carried the company through the first. He has remained one of the mainstays of the company since then.

While speaking on Talk Is Jericho, Chris Jericho revealed that while Vince McMahon was seemingly fine with him going to AEW, McMahon still asked Jericho if he could opt out of going to AEW.

“I did give WWE a chance though, I did give them a chance I said here’s the offer that I’ve gotten from this new company and I was told, Vince says to take it. I think he thought I was bluffing, I took it then about a week later Vince was like ‘you took it?’, I said yeah, he said, ‘can you get out of it?’. No! You told me to take it why would I try and get out of it? He was asking me like ‘what kind of a TV deal have they got?’, I was like ‘you can’t ask me these questions!’.”

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Jericho also admitted that AEW suffered from growing pains over the years. Jericho will face Bryan Danielson in the AEW World Title qualifier tournament this week on Dynamite. We’ll have to see if he’ll be able to win the match or not.

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