Chris Jericho Jokes He’ll Do Another Barbed Wire Match In 30 Years

At AEW Fyter Fest week two, Chris Jericho competed in a barbed wire everywhere match against Eddie Kingston. 

Jericho was victorious in the bout, but suffered a broken nose and needed stitches in his inner thigh due to a cut suffered. 

Speaking on the Absolute Geek Podcast at San Diego ComicCon, Jericho looked back on the match and whether he’d do it again. 

“I have stitches actually on my inner thigh, which I’ve never had before and is a little too close for comfort. It was pretty brutal, but that’s kind of what we do, it happens sometimes. I think everyone enjoyed it and those types of matches are good for the wrestling business because people get a little bit too ‘oh, it’s not real,’ and someone gets cut on barbed wire and it changes people’s perception. It’s good to do that once in awhile. Will I ever have another barbed wire match? I’d like to say no. I’ve had two in my career, 30 years a part, maybe in another 30 years I’ll have another one,” he said with a laugh. 

Jericho first competed in a barbed wire match in 1993 for Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling. 

When asked about balancing doing a gimmick match where it makes sense versus doing a gimmick match for the sake of doing it, Jericho replied, “It’s all about the storytelling, that’s the most important thing about wrestling, storytelling. It’s why people want to watch. If you can connect with the audience with a great story, people will watch, the same as a movie or anything like that. It fit the story of what we were doing. We didn’t just throw it out there and do a barbed wire match for the hell of it. It really fit the character of Eddie Kingston, it fit the violence of the feud that we had for eight months and it was a great way to end this chapter of the story. I wouldn’t do it just for the hell of it, just to roll around in barbed wire, I don’t need to be doing that for fun. It was really a great way to culminate this awesome story. That’s the motivation.”

Jericho was back in the ring on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite, taking on Wheeler Yuta for the right to challenge Jon Moxley for the AEW Interim World Title at AEW Dynamite Quake By The Lake. 

Fans can find results from AEW Dynamite by clicking here. 

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