Chris Jericho On Biggest Difference Between AEW & WWE

Chris Jericho has highlighted what he believes is the biggest difference between AEW and WWE.

Speaking on The Kurt Angle Show, Jericho recalled working in Japan in 2018, discovering that other promotions do things differently to WWE.

Reflecting on the moment that made him fall back in love with wrestling again, Jericho said:

“I think the biggest difference right out of the gate is (that AEW) is our company. That’s what really appealed to me to go there in the first place. I went to New Japan between WWE and AEW and the first match I had was with Kenny Omega in the Tokyo Dome and I remember when we did the beatdown angle for it, Kenny got color and I was like, because we can’t do color in WWE, this needs this type of intensity.

“When you get blood it’s not a blood bath, it’s the intensity that it adds to the performances of the players in the ring and the people watching. Then when we had the match, very similar to the Shawn [Michaels WrestleMania match], I had the whole ending, Kenny had the beginning. I thought who do we have to tell this to, who do we have to talk to? And Kenny said what are you talking about? I said ‘Well who’s the agent?’ Kenny said ‘There’s no agents here. This is the match, this is what we’re doing. Gedo is the booker, we tell Gedo the finish and then we do it.’

“I was like, are you kidding me? Really? Creative control. More importantly, they trusted me to be an artist and let the artists be artists. You’ve got Kenny Omega who is the top guy in New Japan, you’ve got Chris Jericho who’s coming in, business went through the roof when the match was announced. So that kind of made me fall in love with wrestling again, the creative element of it. It was like flying live without a net, not everything is connected, you don’t have to tell the cameraman, nobody knows what you’re going to do. No one knows what you’re going to say.”

On Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite, Jericho debuted a new faction, the Jericho Appreciation Society, which you can read more about at right here.

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Transcription via Wrestling Inc.

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