Chris Jericho Reveals Why His Feud With Jon Moxley Will Be Different From Their WWE Rivalry

During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Chris Jericho discussed how his current storyline with Jon Moxley will be different from their WWE feud.

“That feud in WWE was really damn good, but we’re both so different now,” Jericho said. “It won’t be the same. Moxley was never this confident or this good in WWE. As Moxley said in our ‘Talk is Jericho’ podcast interview, he didn’t know who he was in WWE. He was constantly at odds with the creative and at odds with himself. This is a completely new guy. Dean Ambrose was only a portion of his career. To me, Moxley is the real guy. And there is a new-look Chris Jericho with all this creative freedom in AEW, so it’s going to be very intense and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

“I know a lot of people have already said, ‘This is happening too quickly.’ Everybody needs to sit back, relax, and watch the story unfold. Trust me, we are not rushing anything. I wouldn’t allow it.”

Jericho also discussed how AEW has built up stars already with the likes of Scorpio Sky and Darby Allin:

“Sky is a guy we’ve built up really well, and I was happy with it,” he said. “In retrospect, I would’ve liked to have seen some video packages throughout the show really building up how big it was for Sky to have this championship match. We could have given him a little promo time in that respect, but those are things we noticed afterward.

“That being said, I thought the match was great. Guys like MJF, Darby Allin and Scorpio Sky have been in main event matches. We’ve made those guys into stars very quickly. It’s only been nine weeks of TV, so imagine where we’ll be after nine months?”