Chris Jericho Originally Wanted To Form Faction With Eddie Kingston & Jon Moxley

AEW

Chris Jericho has recalled his original idea for an AEW faction featuring two of the promotion’s top stars.

The inaugural AEW World Champion recently formed the Jericho Appreciation Society, officially breaking up his Inner Circle group.

Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Jericho discussed an initial idea to form a babyface group with Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley, and how he changed his character due to fan reactions during his feud with Kingston, noting:

“I’d love to be able to tell you that I had this big overarching plan that was put into place in November when we started doing this thing with Eddie Kingston and I. It wasn’t. It was just reading the room and evolving. My original idea was for maybe, Eddie, and (Jon) Moxley to be an alliance as babyfaces.

“I never really thought about turning heel. I always had this real romantic idea of never breaking up the Inner Circle and having us be together until the end. Once we started rolling and moving, I realized there was a lot we could do with it. When we were in Bridgeport, Connecticut, we had a promo and Eddie came out there and was like, ‘I don’t know why I’m out here. This is pro wrestling, not sports entertainment, if you want that, go down the block.’

“People just responded with a huge half cheer, half boo disdain for ‘sports entertainment.’ I was like, ‘Oh, oh, our fanbase doesn’t like that term. Interesting.’ Then the wheels go into motion and you start thinking of ‘maybe we can do something like this.’

“The sports entertainment thing came from listening to the fans and realizing, ‘they don’t like this, I do. I’m a sports entertainer at heart. Let’s talk about it and make it a thing on screen,’ and that’s what we did.”

Jericho will team with Jake Hager, & Daniel Garcia to do battle with Eddie Kingston, Santana & Ortiz on Wednesday’s (April 13) edition of Dynamite.

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