{"id":93941,"date":"2020-02-28T13:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=93941"},"modified":"2020-02-28T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T19:21:34","slug":"sport-of-pro-wrestling-a-look-at-chris-jericho-and-jon-moxleys-similar-but-disparate-routes-to-their-aew-world-championship-match-at-aew-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/02\/28\/sport-of-pro-wrestling-a-look-at-chris-jericho-and-jon-moxleys-similar-but-disparate-routes-to-their-aew-world-championship-match-at-aew-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORT OF PRO WRESTLING: A look at Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley\u2019s similar but disparate routes to their AEW World Championship Match at AEW: Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1779892989\" 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><h4><\/h4>\n<p><em>Professional wrestling\u2019s in-ring performance is most often quantified using star ratings or other subjective metrics, but there are many statistics and metrics that can be used to objectively analyze a wrestler\u2019s performance. Each week in this column I\u2019ll take a look at the sport of pro wrestling including in-ring statistics, trends, streaks, and advanced aggregate calculations of wrestlers in US based professional wrestling companies.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Jon Moxley\u2019s first act in an All Elite Wrestling ring was a literal and figurative kick to the gut of longtime WWE peer, Chris Jericho. Moxley and Jericho\u2019s parallel paths have finally diverged into a crash course that will intersect in Chicago on Feb. 29 at AEW\u2019s next pay-per-view event, Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>When one looks at the broad strokes of each of the defectors post-WWE careers, their paths are parallel. They have both recently spent time competing in New Japan Pro Wrestling and they\u2019ve both made their undeniable mark with undefeated singles success in All Elite Wrestling. But that\u2019s where the similarities end.<\/p>\n<p>Jericho, formerly a perennially strong drawing upper-mid-carder, is suddenly featured at the top of cards. He has pushed into to the main event scene of both NJPW and AEW but he has worked a remarkably light schedule over the course of his 2-plus \u00a0years post-WWE. The pro wrestler turned Fozzy frontman has only wrestled in 19 matches since the beginning of 2018, an average of one match every 41 days.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, Moxley has wrestled in 47 matches since his last WWE match on April 21, 2019. Moxley competed in the grueling G1 Climax tournament and he has routinely travelled between NJPW, AEW, and Connecticut-based North East Wrestling. Moxley is averaging a match every 5 \u00bd days since his debut in NJPW on June 5. He has won 29 of his 34 singles matches over the course of the last 8 months. His 0.853 winning percentage in singles matches is nearly unprecedented and he\u2019ll certainly carry that confidence with him as he enters his first World Championship match since 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1924\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-21-at-11.07.25-PM-1024x461.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In line with his trend, Jericho will enter his matchup with Moxley well rested. His last singles match was with NJPW on Jan. 5 in the Tokyo Dome where he defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi at 22:24. Jericho\u2019s last AEW singles match was Dec. 18, 69 days before his scheduled match with Moxley. Jericho has participated in two tag matches since the calendar turned to 2020, but it should be noted that Jericho\u2019s legal time in the ring was less than one-third of each of those matches. It remains to be seen whether Jericho will enter the AEW Revolution main event rusty or rested.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Moxley has already wrestled 13 times in 2020. His grueling schedule has included 11 singles matches and he has accepted challenges from each of Jericho\u2019s Inner Circle stable mates, defeating Sammy Guevara, Ortiz, Santana, and AEW new comer Jeff Cobb on recent episodes of AEW Dynamite. In addition to his AEW match card, Moxley has wrestled five times in Japan in 2020 with three defenses of his IWGP United States championship, including a 17:16 brawl with the legendary Minoru Suzuki and a Texas Death Match with Lance Archer at Wrestle Kingdom. The workload might suggest that the former Dean Ambrose is entering his first singles World Championship match since 2016 beaten up and tired, but his recent success in the win column suggests otherwise. Moxley rides a 16 match singles win streak into the AEW World Championship match. His draw with Pac on October 23rd is the last match singles match he didn\u2019t walk out of victorious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1925\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-21-at-11.07.12-PM-1024x702.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Jericho\u2019s AEW World Championship reign is his first world title reign in nearly a decade. His last run with the WWE Undisputed Title ended on April 2, 2010. The 175 days that he has spent as AEW World Champion at the time of this writing represents the second longest championship reign of his career, behind only his mostly dormant IWGP Intercontinental Championship reign in 2018.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3918087096\" 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>History and longevity are in Jericho\u2019s favor. The former Lionheart has been competing for top-level championships since 1996 when he competed for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship. He holds a 0.426 winning percentage with a 20-27 record in world title matches between WWE, WCW, ECW, and AEW and he has spent 409 days as a top-level champion<\/p>\n<p>Jon Moxley\u2019s history in world title matches doesn\u2019t build much confidence in his ability to overcome the incumbent Jericho. Mox has competed in 16 world championship matches, winning only six for a 0.375 winning percentage. He held the WWE Championship for a total of 84 days during his 2016 reign.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley\u2019s AEW World Championship match on Feb. 25 will be a clash of strategies. The story going into the match, if told as a sport, is one of Moxley as a seasoned and conditioned. He has had the recent success to justify getting into the ring with the crafty Jericho. The counter-argument with Jericho is that he is well-rested, but he could enter the match rusty for maybe his toughest AEW Championship challenger yet. Neither wrestler has a deep history of success in world championship matches, but AEW is a whole new world, and if Jon Moxley has anything to say about it, it\u2019s already time for a paradigm shift.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>All Elite Wrestling\u2019s leadership team put a microscope on their booking tendencies before they even booked a match and I\u2019ve taken on the task of curating and quantifying detailed AEW in-ring metrics at sportofprowrestling.com\/aew. I\u2019ve aggregated metrics including ring time, fall differential, strength of schedule, match stakes, match placement, participating match type, recency, and many more to paint a clear statistical picture of each AEW wrestler\u2019s in-ring performance.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-32040520\"><div id=\"pwtor-1223444756\"><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>Professional wrestling\u2019s in-ring performance is most often quantified using star ratings or other subjective metrics, but there are many statistics and metrics that can be used to objectively analyze a wrestler\u2019s performance. 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