Chris Jericho Explains Why Matches Like The Barbed Wire Deathmatch Are Good For Wrestling
At AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest week two, Chris Jericho competed in a barbed wire everywhere match against Eddie Kingston.
While the bout featured barbed wire, the spot that led to Jericho suffering a broken nose had nothing to do with barbed wire and was the case of a chair coming down and catching him on the nose.
Speaking to ComicBook, Jericho discussed his broken nose and explained why matches like the barbed wire everywhere match are good for wrestling.
“You just go, ‘Fuck, that hurt.’ Matches like the one we just had are probably good for the wrestling business because it lets people know that it’s not just all fun and games. ‘Oh that stuff isn’t real, they don’t really hit each other,’ then you literally get bashed in the nose with the leg of a chair. You can see it, it was just an accident, but when it hit my nose, I thought for sure it was broken. It wasn’t as badly broken as I thought. It’s more just cracked and cartilage and that sort of thing. Still, as long as you can still move, breathe, and see, it’s just part of the job. If it’s on TV, at least we’ll get some shots of it and it’s probably good for the business in the long run. It doesn’t feel good the next day,” he said.
Jericho was victorious in the barbed wire everywhere bout, though he ended up tossed into a barbed wire spider web as the broadcast went off the air.
Jericho will face Wheeler Yuta on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite, putting his upcoming shot at the AEW Interim World Title on the line.
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