Chris Jericho believes AEW’s TV deal happened because he and Jim Ross were signed



On the latest “Talk Is Jericho” podcast, Chris Jericho talked about some of AEW‘s big moments to date. He discussed some of the behind-the-scenes stories behind his signing with the company, the first live Dynamite, winning the AEW World Title and stories behind his various feuds with people like MJF, Orange Cassidy, and many others.

Jericho talking about going to AEW when there was talk of it starting up:

“When the idea came for AEW, and you’ve heard it a million times. ‘Oh, there’s a new wrestling company. This guy’s got some money.’ Whatever. Same thing over and over again. It took me a while to really believe what Tony was talking about because what you need to start a company is you need money and a lot of it, which the Khan family has. You need a great television deal, which we didn’t have at the time, but we finally got it with TNT and TBS. You need a collection of guys who aren’t retreads or haven’t lived up to their full potential, and we had that with The Elite right out of the gate, and then bringing in Moxley right out of the bat for the first show that we had. That’s a guy who was not even close to living up to his full potential. You can see that now. Moxley now is so much better and bigger than he ever was as Dean Ambrose. So we had all three of those things, and also a passion and a desire, and there was a point to prove.”



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