Chris Jericho made his PWG debut last month at the Battle of Los Angeles event in a surprise appearance when he showed up alongside the entire Jericho Appreciation Society faction to work a 10-man tag bout.
The former AEW World Heavyweight Champion teamed with JAS’s Daniel Garcia, Sammy Guevara, Matt Menard, and Angelo Parker against Jonathan Gresham, Evil Uno, SB Kento, Michael Oku, and Kevin Blackwood.
It ended when Jericho pinned Blackwood after hitting the Judas Effect. There was an angle involving Garcia, who was announced as teaming with Gresham and Blackwood against Shun Skywalker, Uno, and Oku, but Garcia said that he only teams with sports entertainers.
While speaking on the latest edition of Talk Is Jericho, Jericho talked about how it came about. It all started a few months ago when he had a discussion with Excalibur
“I was like ‘Yeah sure, I’d like to do PWG. Let’s try and figure it out sometime.’ Then, about a month or so ago, Danny [Garcia] mentioned that he’s in BOLA and that there’s always this tournament. He said ‘Why don’t you and Sammy come and we’ll do the six man.’ I was like ‘Why don’t we make it the whole gang, all eight of us and do like a ten man, but still have Anna and Tay and Jake on the outside with us as well.’ I think that was kinda the cool part was that the entire group showed up.”
Jericho recalled suggesting it to AEW President Tony Khan one time and Khan was excited about it. He knew after seeing The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega make appearances after AEW launched in 2019 at smaller indies that no one is going to expect to see him at PWG and that will get everyone talking. He added that no one remembered what they did in the bout, but only the cool surprise.
Jericho was last in action two weeks ago on Dynamite when he teamed with Sammy Guevara to defeat Action Andretti & Ricky Starks.
H/T to Fightful for the transcription
