Major Update Emerges on Why Chris Jericho Chose AEW Over Rumored WWE Return
Some new details have emerged on why Chris Jericho passed on a rumored return to WWE and was back in […]
Ricky Havlik Some new details have emerged on why Chris Jericho passed on a rumored return to WWE and was back in AEW on Wednesday night. For months, rumors and reports swirled that the wrestling legend’s run in AEW was coming to an end, and he would likely go back to the company that made him a household name, WWE. However, over the last week, things seemingly shifted as he remained on AEW’s roster page and filed a trademark for the term “cornerstone.
” A potential nickname that would seem like a better fit in All Elite Wrestling. It created speculation that he would indeed stay in the company he signed with back in 2019. The rumors became a reality when Jericho made his grand return on Wednesday’s edition of AEW Dynamite in the town he grew up in, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
On Thursday morning, fans for both companies got some new insight into why the 55-year-old probably chose to go back to AEW instead of returning to WWE. Is Chris Jericho still nowhere close to retiring? Credit: WWE “I know I was told that [WWE] wanted him for a retirement tour,” Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer reported.
“And maybe that’s not what he wanted, but I don’t know… With AEW, perhaps he was gonna get more longevity. There are a lot of advantages for AEW, and there’s always money. “AEW’s a little bit of a risk in the sense of… He’ll probably have more input into what he’s gonna do in AEW than he would in WWE, but he’d have a better audience in WWE, I think for sure.