{"id":155423,"date":"2023-03-15T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=155423"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:11:21","slug":"chris-jericho-discusses-aews-growing-pains-where-aew-excels-decision-to-sign-with-aew-strength-of-ppvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/15\/chris-jericho-discusses-aews-growing-pains-where-aew-excels-decision-to-sign-with-aew-strength-of-ppvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jericho discusses AEW&#8217;s growing pains, where AEW excels, decision to sign with AEW, strength of PPVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1061872556\" 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><div>The following are <a href=\"https:\/\/etcanada.com\/news\/976932\/chris-jericho-credits-winnipeg-as-the-genesis-of-aew-promises-magical-night-when-dynamite-debuts-in-his-hometown\/\">highlights of Shakiel Mahjouri&#8217;s interview with AEW&#8217;s Chris Jericho<\/a> for &#8220;ET Canada.&#8221; Thanks to Shakiel Mahjouri for proving PWTorch.com with the highlights to publish&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Chris Jericho credits Winnipeg as the &#8220;genesis of AEW&#8217;:<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing because the genesis of AEW happened basically because of Winnipeg\u2026\u201d Jericho says. \u201cThree Winnipeggers put on this match that did huge business worldwide from streaming and pay-per-view and actually in Japan itself as well. So that was kind of the year [AEW president] Tony Khan realized that there was a market for an alternative in pro wrestling and that\u2019s what really kind of kick-started him to want to start AEW. So it\u2019s very apropos that we come to Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something about Winnipeggers, like when the Jets play in the playoffs it\u2019s the loudest building in the entire league. Louder than Chicago, louder than New York. I think the pro wrestling world is in for a treat when they see our first show in Winnipeg. Plus showcasing Kenny Omega and showcasing Chris Jericho in our first AEW appearances in our hometown. It\u2019s going to be one of those magical nights in pro wrestling that happens only when all the stars line up. And on Wednesday, the stars have lined up for sure.<\/p>\n<p><b>Chris Jericho on the last time he was on a pro-wrestling show in Winnipeg:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The last time I was on TV from Winnipeg was [WWE] Raw 2004 and I was in a musical chairs match of all things, which I won,\u201d Jericho teased. \u201cSo for me to be in a title match, this is also Kenny\u2019s first arena show in Winnipeg, and it\u2019s my first arena show match in Winnipeg. The only time there\u2019s ever been television from Winnipeg was, like I said, the musical chairs match.<\/p>\n<p><b>The &#8220;risk&#8221; Chris Jericho took signing with AEW: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was a little bit of a risk to come here,\u201d he said. \u201cI could have stayed in WWE and been comfortable for the rest of my career. And if I had done that, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d still be wrestling today because I was very just mentally like, \u2018Eh, whatever.\u2019 AEW kind of reignited the passion and reignited my creativity. It took things to the next level all across the board. I think 2022 was a career year for me as a result.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Where AEW needs to improve: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We\u2019ve gotten so big in three and a half years. So there are a lot of growing pains as we expected there would be. I don\u2019t think anyone thought that we\u2019d be doing the numbers that we\u2019re doing, both in the arenas and ratings-wise\u2026\u201d Jericho said. \u201cSo obviously we\u2019re working on our infrastructure, working on all that sort of thing behind the scenes on building the corporate side of AEW. Everybody\u2019s learning how to be on live TV still. It really is just that everyone was thrown into the deep end and had to react accordingly. I\u2019ve been very proud of everybody that\u2019s been able to do that. We\u2019ve had some bumps on the road, but that\u2019s expected in pro wrestling. We\u2019ve become a major television entity in a very short period of time.<\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Where AEW excels:<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There\u2019s no other wrestling company in the world that puts on a show like AEW as far as being an all-around smorgasbord, if you will, of pro wrestling styles,\u201d Jericho said. \u201cIf you look at our last pay-per-view, Revolution, which I think is one of the best we\u2019ve ever done\u2026 You start off with Jericho and Ricky Starks in a pro wrestling match, what a concept. Then you got a final burial match with Christian and Jungle Boy, which is off the charts. You have an amazing six-man match with The Elite and House of Black. Then you have a Texas Deathmatch with Jon Moxley and Adam Page. And then you have the 60-minute Iron Man classic with MJF and Bryan Danielson.<\/p>\n<p>Those are five distinctly different matches and all of them were amazing. You won\u2019t find that on any other wrestling show in any of the companies. It\u2019s what we do best. So I think we just continue to do AEW and improve upon that. I think our production has got so much better over the last month or so. We\u2019ve got a new director named Mike Mansury, who\u2019s just really made a big difference as far as replays and the way things are shot. All that stuff makes you appear more gigantic and all those little things matter in the ring and outside the ring.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1403221400\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Watch the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sywF9oXm8Wc\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/sywF9oXm8Wc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3815066209\"><div id=\"pwtor-3585977654\"><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>The following are highlights of Shakiel Mahjouri&#8217;s interview with AEW&#8217;s Chris Jericho for &#8220;ET Canada.&#8221; Thanks to Shakiel Mahjouri for proving PWTorch.com with the highlights to publish&#8230; Chris Jericho credits Winnipeg as the &#8220;genesis of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/15\/chris-jericho-discusses-aews-growing-pains-where-aew-excels-decision-to-sign-with-aew-strength-of-ppvs\/\" title=\"Chris Jericho discusses AEW&#8217;s growing pains, where AEW excels, decision to sign with AEW, strength of PPVs\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155425,"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":[6163,2,4247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-interview-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-15-at-4.06.07-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155423","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155426,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155423\/revisions\/155426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}