Chris Jericho: AEW Locker Room Became Stronger After AEW All Out 2022 Incident

Chris Jericho reflects on post-AEW Brawl Out. 

CM Punk made plenty of headlines coming out of AEW All Out 2022 when he took aim at Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson, and Hangman Page during his media scrum. Following his comments, an altercation occurred between Punk & Ace Steel and Omega & the Bucks that led to all parties being suspended. 

Tony Khan named Chris Jericho as a locker room leader after the incident as he, along with Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley, helped assured everyone that things would be okay. 

“We just let people know that everything’s gonna be OK. We are a great locker room with great people and a lot of momentum for our company that’s still very young and things happen sometimes,” said Jericho in an interview with Daily Mail. “There was a lot of uncertainty. We’ve got a lot of young guys and girls on our roster who have never been through stuff like this before, but it’s a part of the business, it happens. We were really getting painted with an unfair brush by the media in a lot of ways like ‘it’s a dumpster fire in the locker room’ and that wasn’t the case. And I don’t want people to believe what they’re reading and think that it’s real, because it wasn’t.”

Jericho continued, “You go through things like that, fights and that sort of thing, I’ve been in them myself with locker room brawls You’ve got to continue forward and Mox, Danielson and I just really wanted to grab the horse by the reins before it got out of control and just let people know that if you have concerns let’s discuss them, if you have issues let’s discuss them but let’s get through them together and come through stronger on the back end.I think we really came together well which was great for the locker room and for the fans because the fans too want to know that everything is going to continue moving forward. And I think we did a really good job of righting the ship and most importantly letting people know that it’s going to be OK. It’s not the end of the world. These things happen and we deal with them and we become stronger as a result, which we have.”

Punk returned to AEW on the premiere episode of AEW Collision on June 17. 

Jericho will be in action at AEW All In, taking on Will Ospreay. Fans can check out the current lineup for AEW All In by clicking here.