AEW’s Chris Jericho Says WWE Return Is ‘No longer Going to Occur’
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Chris Jericho would now not gaze a return to WWE going down in his future, and he sounds at peace with it.
The 49-year-feeble become a mainstay on pro wrestling’s ideal circuit within the early 2000s and hasn’t seemed at a WWE tournament since WrestleMania 33 in 2017. Jericho briefly talked in regards to the split on his YouTube channel Saturday, and any fans who held out hope for a reconciliation were left disenchanted.
This is how Jericho outlined it:
“Or now not it is far now not going to happen. I in point of fact revel in being in [All Elite Wrestling]. I loved my time with WWE. I like Vince McMahon. I realized lots. I had replacement relaxing, however hear, you cannot quit within the the same region forever.
“You change into stagnant if you happen to shut, and I think you would possibly perhaps well push your self to shut something unique. The truth that AEW became once are residing with out a web once I first confirmed up and all of us have executed this form of good job of promoting this worth and promoting this company.”
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Jericho started working with AEW in 2019, earning the inaugural title of AEW world champion later that year.
Now within the course of a three-year contract with the corporate, or now not it is even much less seemingly McMahon and Jericho renew their partnership.
On the time he became once written off three years ago, Jericho urged Dan Gelston of the Related Press he’d be honest if he by no draw made his draw abet to the WWE.
“It will seemingly be a in point of fact long time earlier than I return,” Jericho stated (h/t 6abc). “If I ever close return, if I by no draw return, or now not it is honest. If I by no draw struggle one other match, it can most likely perhaps now not anguish me.”
It gave the influence arduous to fathom on the time given Jericho has taken breaks from WWE earlier than. Or now not it is change into extra plausible because the years have long gone on.
On Saturday, one among the ideal performers in WWE made it clear again: There’s no going residence.