Chris Jericho: I Didn’t Want To Be EVP And Play Grab Ass; F*ck That, Just Give Me More Money
Chris Jericho didn’t want to be an AEW EVP.
Jericho was arguably the biggest “get” for AEW when the company formed in 2019 as he had previously proclaimed his loyalty to Vince McMahon. Tony Khan has praised Jericho as being one of the most valuable people in wrestling.
Despite his stature, Jericho was not one of the four Executive Vice Presidents when AEW formed, saying he turned down that opportunity.
“The only reason I wasn’t an EVP is because I didn’t want to be,” Jericho told Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated. “They asked me and I said, “No, that’s way too much work for what you’re planning on doing.” And Tony Khan’s the boss, anyways. I knew that from the start. So I wasn’t going to play grab-a– and use EVP as an ego boost. F— that. Just give me more money. My job was to be a big star and make new ones so everyone is valuable. Look at the guys I worked with in those first three months. I helped Cody reinvent himself. Jon Moxley, Jungle Boy, Scorpio Sky, Darby Allin. The Elite, working with them on a national scale. Giving a stage for Santana and Ortiz and Sammy Guevara, reinventing Jake Hager. Then getting into it with Orange Cassidy and then a whole year with MJF. We needed to show we had some really big names in AEW, which we do.”
The four EVPs to start AEW were the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and Cody Rhodes, though the latter has left the company. You can find Jericho’s comments on Cody by clicking here.
Jericho is currently involved in a program with Eddie Kingston with the two men scheduled to collide at AEW Revolution. You can view the current lineup for the show by clicking here.
