Chris Jericho Explains Why He Didn’t Go To Impact Wrestling

You never know where Chris Jericho is going to show up, and he recently confirmed that he signed a three year deal with All Elite Wrestling.

For a while it was rumored that Jericho might end up working with Impact Wrestling, and he confirmed the rumors on a recent episode of Talk Is Jericho.

The former WWE Champion explained that Impact made him a great offer, and the negotiations had even reached the point where Jericho was discussing potential matches he could have while working with the promotion.

“I’ve been really impressed by IMPACT over the past year. I thought Don Callis and Scott D’Amore have really turned things around in that company. I really, really enjoy it, and I even thought long and hard about doing some shows there. I even had a meeting with Scott and Don in Toronto with Ed Nordholm; the offer they made was a great offer. That’s something funny, when I hear ‘all of these companies are vying for talent, free agents—WWE, AEW, New Japan, Ring Of Honor, MLW—dude, what about IMPACT? They’ve got money. They were going to spend some money on Chris Jericho. We had some great matches planned—Jericho versus Sami Callihan, Johnny Impact, Brian Cage—Rich Swann. I’d love to work with Rich Swann.”

According to Jericho, he was giving some serious consideration to working with Impact Wrestling, but then Tony Khan came in and made him the biggest offer of his career.

“So, I honestly did talk to IMPACT and really, really thought about going there, and then Tony Khan came in with this offer, that’s the biggest offer I’ve ever been offered in my career. Then you have to stop and think—if you’re going to get this offer, you’re going to have some real focus. As big as the [Young Bucks] and Cody [Rhodes] are, Hangman Page, all of the guys that were ‘earmarked’ to go to All Elite, even if Kenny went there—he hasn’t yet—what if he did? There’s a lot of different ways this can go, and when Tony puts the money where the mouth is, now I really have to think, ‘do I really want to make this jump?’”

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