{"id":116311,"date":"2021-04-02T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=116311"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:31:05","slug":"christian-comments-on-first-match-in-aew-vs-kazarian-exchange-with-khan-backstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/04\/02\/christian-comments-on-first-match-in-aew-vs-kazarian-exchange-with-khan-backstage\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian comments on first match in AEW vs. Kazarian, exchange with Khan backstage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2390012456\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Speaking to Chris Jericho on the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/westwoodonepodcasts.com\/pods\/talk-is-jericho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talk is Jericho<\/a>, Christian told Jericho how Frankie Kazarian was picked as his first AEW opponent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had Frankie forefront in my mind, said Christian. &#8220;When I called Tony and we talked about it, &#8216;I talk about outworking everyone. The work has to start pretty soon.&#8217; We decided we&#8217;d do something to set the match up and then we&#8217;d do the match. The first person he said was, &#8216;What do you think about Frankie Kazarian?&#8217; I said I was thinking that too. We batted a couple of names and it came back to Frankie. I let it marinate for a couple of days and I texted him and said, &#8216;You were right from the start. He&#8217;s the guy.&#8217; He sent back a heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Christian also talked about AEW CEO Tony Khan&#8217;s reaction backstage to the match. &#8220;Tony was sitting there and he was the first person waiting for me,&#8221; said Christian. &#8220;I doubled back to him and I said him, &#8216;Tony, you signed me sight unseen. You have no idea how much that means to me and how hard I will work for you going forward.&#8217; He hugged me and that was it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christian&#8217;s last televised TV match was in March of 2014 on WWE Smackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Credit to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/wrestling\/chris-jericho-says-tnt-told-aew-don-t-do-again-after-sting-came-surprise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fightful<\/a> for the transcription<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-114980892\"><div id=\"pwtor-2133457116\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Speaking to Chris Jericho on the latest episode of Talk is Jericho, Christian told Jericho how Frankie Kazarian was picked as his first AEW opponent. &#8220;I had Frankie forefront in my mind, said Christian. &#8220;When <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/04\/02\/christian-comments-on-first-match-in-aew-vs-kazarian-exchange-with-khan-backstage\/\" title=\"Christian comments on first match in AEW vs. Kazarian, exchange with Khan backstage\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":113142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/02\/Christian.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116312,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116311\/revisions\/116312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}