AEW superstar and current ROH world champion Chris Jericho recently joined Comicbook.com for an in-depth conversation about all things pro-wrestling, including how he has been dealing with the company’s backstage drama over the last month, and how AEW is just experiencing growing pains in its third year of existence. Highlights from the interview are below.
Reminds fans that the company is only 3 years old and is just going through some growing pains, adding that he, Moxley, and Danielson are team captains:
It’s just that we’re a growing company. You know what I mean? When I worked in WCW, it’d been around for 50 years. When I worked for WWF, it had been around for 60 years. We’ve been around for three years, so there’s always going to be growing pains. And that’s why somebody like myself and Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley, we are the captains of the team. It’s like a football team or a soccer team or a hockey team.
Says that overall the company is still filled with positive and optimistic people and won’t let the recent drama affect their momentum:
And there’s always going to be little dips and dots in any company, in any locker room of any type of sport. It’s just the way it is. So you just deal with it. And the funny thing is, everyone’s got an opinion when they’re online and the social media and all that stuff. We know what’s really happening and we know, sure there are things you got to fix, but the positivity in our company is off the charts and the optimism of where we’re going over the next few years is also off the charts. So it’s very exciting and the fact we just had our third year anniversary is huge because we never knew. We never knew if we would have one anniversary. So, there’s growing pains, it’s just the way it is and that’s okay. That’s what I’m here for and we’re taking care of the issues and focusing more on the positives, which are 98% to two.